Private School Possible with Household Income <$80K

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

NP. While this does happen, it is pretty rare. I also think PP isn't being entirely truthful.

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These schools we are talking about spend lots of time deciding who is admitted. If the KIDS didn’t deserve to be at these schools, they wouldn’t have been accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

Grow up. Change your lifestyle as you live over your means. Your kids can go to public. Life is about choices.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

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We make $300 and two kids and get aid. I really don’t care what DCUM thinks. DCUM isn’t real.

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Anonymous wrote:We make $300 and two kids and get aid. I really don’t care what DCUM thinks. DCUM isn’t real.

How much aid? Do you both work?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

How is your post helpful? You have, what, one child? Paying full tuition at Sidwell etc on 160k is bonkers because it leaves you with next to nothing to live on for a family of three. Telling people to quit complaining because they don't want to reduce their lifestyle to poverty level existence to put kids through private school is not particularly an insightful thing to say.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

Where did you get that we have a $400k plus income? It’s actually much lower than that. My DH alone only makes 220k and we have 3 kids. Their school is about 40k per child per year. Do you think we could afford 120k after taxes? No… that’s why I have to work. I make 150k and I never considered asking for FA. We have one VERY old minivan. We do have a nice house with a lot of equity on it. DH and I work really hard because education is very important for us.
It upsets me to hear a woman saying that she does NOT NEED to work and she expect financial aid. She clearly needs to work, but chooses not to and expects others to help.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

How is your post helpful? You have, what, one child? Paying full tuition at Sidwell etc on 160k is bonkers because it leaves you with next to nothing to live on for a family of three. Telling people to quit complaining because they don't want to reduce their lifestyle to poverty level existence to put kids through private school is not particularly an insightful thing to say.

Its very helpful. Its about lifestyle choices. Its appalling that people are slamming someone for wanting their kid to go to private on $80K, when they make 5-6 times as much and some are getting financial aid.

We could absolutely do it comfortably now. And, not live in poverty. Its about choices.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

Where did you get that we have a $400k plus income? It’s actually much lower than that. My DH alone only makes 220k and we have 3 kids. Their school is about 40k per child per year. Do you think we could afford 120k after taxes? No… that’s why I have to work. I make 150k and I never considered asking for FA. We have one VERY old minivan. We do have a nice house with a lot of equity on it. DH and I work really hard because education is very important for us.
It upsets me to hear a woman saying that she does NOT NEED to work and she expect financial aid. She clearly needs to work, but chooses not to and expects others to help.

You don't have to work. You choose to work. You choose to work because you have three kids, live in a nice house and are choosing private for all three. You have a spending issue. If you want financial aid, then apply. You wouldn't NEED to work if you had less kids, lived in a cheaper house and choose a cheaper private or public school.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

Where did you get that we have a $400k plus income? It’s actually much lower than that. My DH alone only makes 220k and we have 3 kids. Their school is about 40k per child per year. Do you think we could afford 120k after taxes? No… that’s why I have to work. I make 150k and I never considered asking for FA. We have one VERY old minivan. We do have a nice house with a lot of equity on it. DH and I work really hard because education is very important for us.
It upsets me to hear a woman saying that she does NOT NEED to work and she expect financial aid. She clearly needs to work, but chooses not to and expects others to help.

You don't have to work. You choose to work. You choose to work because you have three kids, live in a nice house and are choosing private for all three. You have a spending issue. If you want financial aid, then apply. You wouldn't NEED to work if you had less kids, lived in a cheaper house and choose a cheaper private or public school.

Exactly, but same goes for OP. They want the same private school for their kids. A school they cannot afford on the husband’s salary alone. Therefore OP (like me) needs to work to send her kid to private. She might still get aid, but it is unfair for all the people that work to pay for what they want and don’t expect help from others

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

Where did you get that we have a $400k plus income? It’s actually much lower than that. My DH alone only makes 220k and we have 3 kids. Their school is about 40k per child per year. Do you think we could afford 120k after taxes? No… that’s why I have to work. I make 150k and I never considered asking for FA. We have one VERY old minivan. We do have a nice house with a lot of equity on it. DH and I work really hard because education is very important for us.
It upsets me to hear a woman saying that she does NOT NEED to work and she expect financial aid. She clearly needs to work, but chooses not to and expects others to help.

You don't have to work. You choose to work. You choose to work because you have three kids, live in a nice house and are choosing private for all three. You have a spending issue. If you want financial aid, then apply. You wouldn't NEED to work if you had less kids, lived in a cheaper house and choose a cheaper private or public school.

Exactly, but same goes for OP. They want the same private school for their kids. A school they cannot afford on the husband’s salary alone. Therefore OP (like me) needs to work to send her kid to private. She might still get aid, but it is unfair for all the people that work to pay for what they want and don’t expect help from others

You make $150K, which is a good salary. So, your HHI is $370K. You also choose to have three kids and live in a "nice house" You have a spending issue. OP and her husband at best can pull in $100-120K, so basically less than you make alone. Do you really think OP earning $20K more will make a difference in terms of FA? She has no where near the earning potential you do. You also choose to have three kids. You could have stopped at two.

If you want FA, apply for it. Easy solution.

We get it, you don't want real middle class families at your school. Its ok.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the likelihood of receiving financial aid (and enough of it) at DC private high schools to make attending possible?

We are a 2-parent, 1-income family with an elementary age child at home. I know some schools impute a salary for the non-working parent (though I never in my life made as much as some of the annual tuition costs).

Anyone have a story / financial aid award amount to share? Thank you!

Two parent, one income home. I would say the likelihood is very, very high. My kids went to D.C. and Bethesda area private schools. My income was lower than yours. The schools were extremely generous with their support.
This allowed allowed all the kids to graduate from schools that I would never have been able to afford. The support was provided K-12 for each child. The final one graduated HS last year. Don't hesitate to apply, and good luck!

So families that for no good reason choose to not work get FA? How is this right or fair? Why should we (working) parents donate?

Stop beig bitter. Quit if you want to. You probably can afford to quit but choose not to.

I am bitter, you are right. I can afford to quit if I decide to send my kids to public school. We absolutely cannot afford private school on my DH’s income alone… perhaps by quitting (or getting an easy part time Job) I would get FA. My kids are all already admitted and doing great. Everyone loves them so I bet I am in a better position than OP.

THIS is why I am upset. If I were rich and did not need to work, I would probably not be upset

If you cannot live off the $400k plus income your spending ids huge issue. We make $160 and could afford it if we choose. It’s all about choices. We don’t live in a nice big house. We drive cars till they die. We rarely take vacations. I can spend what I want and we have good retirement and college and graduate school savings. No family help.

Where did you get that we have a $400k plus income? It’s actually much lower than that. My DH alone only makes 220k and we have 3 kids. Their school is about 40k per child per year. Do you think we could afford 120k after taxes? No… that’s why I have to work. I make 150k and I never considered asking for FA. We have one VERY old minivan. We do have a nice house with a lot of equity on it. DH and I work really hard because education is very important for us.
It upsets me to hear a woman saying that she does NOT NEED to work and she expect financial aid. She clearly needs to work, but chooses not to and expects others to help.

You don't have to work. You choose to work. You choose to work because you have three kids, live in a nice house and are choosing private for all three. You have a spending issue. If you want financial aid, then apply. You wouldn't NEED to work if you had less kids, lived in a cheaper house and choose a cheaper private or public school.

Exactly, but same goes for OP. They want the same private school for their kids. A school they cannot afford on the husband’s salary alone. Therefore OP (like me) needs to work to send her kid to private. She might still get aid, but it is unfair for all the people that work to pay for what they want and don’t expect help from others

Unfair to who?

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Did she legit just say "I can't believe you said I make $400k hhi, when it is *only* $370k"

Lol.