Summary
Cathleen Colbert, a senior last year at North Allegheny High School, yearned to go to Penn State. Her mother pushed Chatham College.
Coming from a single-parent home, Colbert planned to base her decision on financial aid. Chatham, although much more expensive than Penn State, offered to cover all but $8,000 of her expenses. Penn State left a $10,000 gap.See the full content of this document
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Don't Rule Out a Private School
"It was so low as to be insulting to me," said her mother, Renee Colbert, 51, of Franklin Park. "I would have felt better if they said you're admitted, but there's no financial aid available."
Cathleen Colbert, now a sophomore at Chatham, knows what some families have yet to learn: Private schoo...See the full content of this document
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