They impugn income for non working spouses. |
Sorry, what now? |
DP but many schools will impute a theoretical income (not super high — $30k or so) if a second parent is not working, so that would get counted against hypothetical aid. That said this often doesn’t seem to apply until all children are school age. |
Oh, input. Thank you. I couldn’t figure out how impugning the income of someone who doesn’t have one made sense. |
I would second the importance of leaving DC and moving either to VA or MD to manage college costs.
While I do not think anyone can treat admission either to UVa or to UMCP as a "safety", each state has other good public university options. Purely as an example, VA also has VPI, W&M, VCU, UMW, JMU, ODU, GMU, et alia. Maryland also has UMBC, Salisbury, etc. |
They can go to a cheaper catholic for k-8 but yes it’s possible. Their take home is more than that. |
We both work! |
Thanks for the input all-thoughts to consider. |
4 kids. Public school for K-8. Independent Catholic school for HS. We received about $10k FA per year when 2 were in HA at the same time (HHI 210k). |
What was your total tuition cost per child in highschool? |
You should take a seminar about where babies cone from and learn the ways not to have so many if you can't afford them. |
Don't let the trolls get you, OP. They have nothing better to do. With four kids, you are likely to get some financial aid. It will really depend from school to school how much that amounts to. Is your current private a K-12? Could you ask the FA office for an estimate? As to the PP's comment, our DS is in a "Top 5" competitive school. No one is treated as "the poor family," so please don't let that be a concern. Congratulations on your new addition! |
And you should find a dictionary and learn the meanings of “adoption” and “secondary infertility”. |
Sorry if people here are sounding judgy. I would have loved to have 4 kids. Congratulations on your little one. We did a few years at an independent K-8. Tuition in our last year was over 40. With increases I’d assume it’s easily 50k. We got FA for 3 years (3 kids at home, one SN, and HHI was probably around 150k but I don’t remember exactly). Each year they increased tuition and reduced our FA. We knew we couldn’t afford to continue. There was zero chance we could have paid for 3 kids. We are Jewish so a parochial school was not an option. However we do know many families who have shared that they give large sibling discounts and tuition is already reasonable compared to non-religious privates. You might want to consider only placing your oldest in private to save money since the HS seems to be the biggest concern. |
I realized my post is unclear. We could only afford private for one child so we did it for the child who needed it most at that moment in time. |