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Lessa Scherrer

Lessa Scherrer

College admissions consultant at College Inside Track (Your College Your Way), specializing in college planning, financial aid, and applications for students including homeschoolers and gifted youth.

Sep 9, 2026

MarciHOST
7:51
Is there a lot of, uh, financial aid, need-based, merit-based aid still out there?
7:57
Depends on the school.
7:59
So there are some super selective schools, and I, I think you know the ones I mean.
8:06
They're the ones you read about in the paper.
8:08
They're charging $90,000 a year.
8:12
However, they meet 100% of need.
8:15
So if the FAFSA shows that you have need, then they will cover everything, um, up to the amount that FAFSA says that the family can cover, which by the way, is always way more than the family thinks that they can cover.

14 MINS LATER

MarciHOST
22:33
... because eight billion people who couldn't get in applied to it?

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