dante de blasio, the son of new york city mayor bill de blasio has been accepted into several top colleges including ivy league universities yale and brown, sources close to gracie mansion said the mayor's son, who is 17 and a senior at brooklyn technical high school will make his decision by the end of the month, leaving de blasio in a situation familiar to millions across the country despite his six figure salary as mayor and six figure rental income from the two properties he and his wife own in brooklyn, de blasio is now expected to turn to financial aid to help pay for his son's elite education proud family: dante (left) with his father, new york city mayor bill de blasio, his mother chirlaine mccray and sister, chiara outside their home in park slope, brooklyn  'there's going to be a big challenge in figuring out financial aid and visits and all sorts of stuff,' said mr de blasio to the new york times last week but while dante's choice of college is obviously a private matter, how his parents   as champions of the underprivileged   will fund it, is obviously of public interest indeed, the almost prohibitive cost of college for some in the united states is often pointed to as a failing of democratic politicians and their policies however, with a salary of $225,000 and his daughter, chiara, already enrolled at santa clara university in california, de blasio has a good case for financial aid ivy league: dante has been accepted into yale (left) and brown (right) universities and will make his decision at the end of the month  home for the moment: the de blasio family moved into gracie mansion on the upper east side of new york city late last year  harvard:  $68,050  university of pennsylvania: $66,800  columbia: $63,440  yale:  $63,250  dartmouth: $60,201  brown:  $59,428  princeton: $58,965  cornell:  $47,286  indeed, her annual tuition, room and board fees come to $55,000 a year and if dante was to attend yale, that would come to in excess of $60,000 faced with more than $100,000 a year in tuition fees, the mayor may not find himself disqualified from seeking aid said mark kantrowitz, the publisher of edvisorscom, which works in financial aid 'when you have colleges that are charging 50, 60, $70,000 a year, everybody is going to struggle to pay for college,' he said to the new york times however, kantrowitz admitted in the case of the mayor he is talking about the 1 percent of top earners in the country de blasio and his wife chirlaine mccray received $52,200 in rent from a park slope, brooklyn, home his mother lived in and the family home also in park slope they left last year rakes in $4,975 a month combined, the two properties value is $28 million however, regardless of how the de blasio's pay for college, dante appears to be a strong candidate he is a champion debater and counts political philosophy his favorite subject according to the new york times
dante de blasio 17 the end of the month
dante de blasio, 17, to make his decision by the end of the month  his father has said that despite his six figure salary the family will struggle to meet cost to send son to ivy league school 