College Costs - ridiculously high

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of you DCUM parents live in DC? We are seriously thinking of moving because there are NO in-state options. We've been socking away money in a 529 but the price tags are still really daunting for top flagship state schools (even with the $10k DCTAG) But we'd have to move high schools (from School without Walls) and a neighborhood we love. Curious how other non crazy rich families do it.

I used to live on Cap Hill. We moved to Virginia for precisely this reason. Both children went to Virginia publics

Our kids are pursuing a service academy which is free tuition so another way to approach things.

Getting into a service academy is challenging---it's not like applying to UVA, it's more like Stanford and MIT and Harvard, but also you need to be extremely physically fit

No the best service academy West Point avg SAT is only 1300 lol
Average HS athletes would easily make the physical.

An average student will never get the nomination.

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of you DCUM parents live in DC? We are seriously thinking of moving because there are NO in-state options. We've been socking away money in a 529 but the price tags are still really daunting for top flagship state schools (even with the $10k DCTAG) But we'd have to move high schools (from School without Walls) and a neighborhood we love. Curious how other non crazy rich families do it.

I used to live on Cap Hill. We moved to Virginia for precisely this reason. Both children went to Virginia publics

Our kids are pursuing a service academy which is free tuition so another way to approach things.

Getting into a service academy is challenging---it's not like applying to UVA, it's more like Stanford and MIT and Harvard, but also you need to be extremely physically fit

No the best service academy West Point avg SAT is only 1300 lol
Average HS athletes would easily make the physical.

An average student will never get the nomination.

Accepted students average SAT is 1300. Looking pretty average

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Anonymous wrote:Do any of you DCUM parents live in DC? We are seriously thinking of moving because there are NO in-state options. We've been socking away money in a 529 but the price tags are still really daunting for top flagship state schools (even with the $10k DCTAG) But we'd have to move high schools (from School without Walls) and a neighborhood we love. Curious how other non crazy rich families do it.

I used to live on Cap Hill. We moved to Virginia for precisely this reason. Both children went to Virginia publics

Our kids are pursuing a service academy which is free tuition so another way to approach things.

Getting into a service academy is challenging---it's not like applying to UVA, it's more like Stanford and MIT and Harvard, but also you need to be extremely physically fit

True but planning to be a rugby recruit

Smart. Heard that rugby is a sport that has big rosters and they recruit heavily for

You still need a nomination

I've been told that many coaches can help with that as well.

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I had a classmate at Stanford who transferred in from the AF Academy. I don't think they let you do that with a 1300.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a classmate at Stanford who transferred in from the AF Academy. I don't think they let you do that with a 1300.

1. Average is 1300, so there could be ones with higher scores.

2 if you transfer to 3rd year, they don't see SAT or HS record anymore.