择校的困惑-真诚求助

英文是孩子的描述：

These are my options right now (the $ on the right is cost of attendance).

Need based and some merit from Tufts.
Amherst accepted $45,590.00
Tufts accepted $28,542.00
Carleton accepted $21,997.00
Bowdoin accepted $21,850.00
Reed College cost pending.
Davidson accepted $14,701.00

All Merit (require GPA: 3.2).

Emory accepted $19,004.00 (Also got into their Oxford side campus with $ 3000 less cost)

Also waitlisted @ UPenn, Vandy, WashU, Rice, Swarth, Brown, Duke.

For some context, my family would comfortable paying around $20,000 a year - any more would cut into my parent's retirement which I really don't want to do. I would like to study Computer Science but I also like History - want to do double major at the moment.

So my feasible options are Carleton, Davidson, Bowdoin, and Emory. Amherst and Tufts are too expensive.

I know that Carleton's sciences is stronger than Bowdoin, but I also know that Bowdoin has many alumni connections at tech companies. I went on Bowdoin's flyout in the fall and I really liked the campus and the people. I was going to ED but my family was scared about finances. I also went on Davidson's fly out, but I didn't like the D1 athletics / bigger presence of greek life very much. However, it is a really nice LAC and it's cheaper too. But maybe they are front loading? Didn't get a chance to visit Carleton but I heard it's midwest friendly which I'm a fan of.


So two big questions.
1. thoughts on which college I should choose?

2. do you think these LACs will give me a generous package freshman year only to give less the next few years? And my family's income will go about a decent amount up (50%) next year so any way to lock the package in?

 

看来Amherst 只能放弃了，剩下来的学校如果第二年学费长到双倍，那压力会很大。但孩子有点担心Merit资助所带来的学习压力。 真诚请教过来人有没有知道Top LACs是怎么重新审核资助的？要么是孩子担心学习压力要么是我们担心后面增长的学费。