How do people afford private schools?

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile these schools chant DEI lol. It would be more palatable if they just admit to being exclusive trust fund baby havens, but it’s just poor taste to then talk a good talk about inclusion etc. It’s all just BS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our son has been in private since pre k and he’s in 11th now. Our HHI was $150 when he started, and $240 now. We’ve never gotten aid. What makes it work for us is low housing cost - we live in a small, shabby house in PG county. House is worth under $400k.

What's your DS's tuition?

[Anonymous]

They make a lot of money.
I have a hard time naming any family at our school that has a HHI under $800K (besides us).

We often feel like the only one in our income bracket (two high level feds).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They make a lot of money.
I have a hard time naming any family at our school that has a HHI under $800K (besides us).

We often feel like the only one in our income bracket (two high level feds).

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vent post: after receiving our financial aid determination—less than I'd hoped—the sticker shock of how much this is going to cost is sinking in... How do people afford this?

Write an appeal letter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our son has been in private since pre k and he’s in 11th now. Our HHI was $150 when he started, and $240 now. We’ve never gotten aid. What makes it work for us is low housing cost - we live in a small, shabby house in PG county. House is worth under $400k.

What's your DS's tuition?

It’s about $45k now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our son has been in private since pre k and he’s in 11th now. Our HHI was $150 when he started, and $240 now. We’ve never gotten aid. What makes it work for us is low housing cost - we live in a small, shabby house in PG county. House is worth under $400k.

Hey, are you me? Nice to know we’re not the only ones. Except we started with an HHI of $80k and did get financial aid… The year we hit 200K we stopped applying. $240 now.

What makes it work for us is a modest house, one car, and one child. But we want for nothing and our kid is getting an amazing education, so no regrets.

[Anonymous]

We received generous FA that makes school for DC about what we paid for preschool.

[Anonymous]

Generous FA, help from grandparents, mortgage of only about $350k, don’t spend money on fancy cars or vacations. We make about $250k combined and have 3 in private and it is a stretch but worth it to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only sending one kid to private plus a HHI of $500k plus bought our house in 2008 (our kid is in high school now)

This is close to us… but hoping to have help for the other kid. I don’t like the cost but I recognize it’s my choice.

[Anonymous]

We both are relatively high earners (combined HHI was 1.4M last year). We don’t have family money and both took out loans for both undergrad and law school (paid off).

Not going to lie — even at that income the monthly tuition bill is painful. It’s just a really absurd amount of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They make a lot of money.
I have a hard time naming any family at our school that has a HHI under $800K (besides us).

We often feel like the only one in our income bracket (two high level feds).

You certainly are not. But a LOT of the two fed types have grandparents paying and/or family money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We both are relatively high earners (combined HHI was 1.4M last year). We don’t have family money and both took out loans for both undergrad and law school (paid off).

Not going to lie — even at that income the monthly tuition bill is painful. It’s just a really absurd amount of money.

How can it be painful with that HHI? Even if you have 4 kids in private school and are paying $220,000 per year, I don't really understand how it is painful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We both are relatively high earners (combined HHI was 1.4M last year). We don’t have family money and both took out loans for both undergrad and law school (paid off).

Not going to lie — even at that income the monthly tuition bill is painful. It’s just a really absurd amount of money.

How can it be painful with that HHI? Even if you have 4 kids in private school and are paying $220,000 per year, I don't really understand how it is painful.

You do realize that people who make that much are paying close to or more than $600k in taxes right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only Fans
Embezzlement
Fraud
Growing and selling
Child exploitation
High paying jobs where they never see their children

Wow, aren't you a negative Nelly!

Or industrious