What does DCPS parents do for tuition?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you not think that you will qualify for FA? (Many, many families that earn under $180K will qualify for some FA.)

Please, please educate yourself about college costs--few people actually pay the "sticker price" of college, and it pains me to read of parents who don't allow their kids to even apply to dream schools because they (wrongly) think that they will have to fork over $200K for college.

LOL. My parents' combined income when I went to college (started in 2009) at a public VA university was less than $65,000/year. My "financial aid" consisted of some work-study funds allowing me to get an on-campus part time job, about $5k from the Pell grant (which dwindled to $0 by the time I graduated in 2013), and offerings of loans, which they offer to everybody.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you not think that you will qualify for FA? (Many, many families that earn under $180K will qualify for some FA.)

Please, please educate yourself about college costs--few people actually pay the "sticker price" of college, and it pains me to read of parents who don't allow their kids to even apply to dream schools because they (wrongly) think that they will have to fork over $200K for college.

LOL. My parents' combined income when I went to college (started in 2009) at a public VA university was less than $65,000/year. My "financial aid" consisted of some work-study funds allowing me to get an on-campus part time job, about $5k from the Pell grant (which dwindled to $0 by the time I graduated in 2013), and offerings of loans, which they offer to everybody.

Well yeah, you went to a public school. The Pp is talking about private schools. Very few people get aid from public schools, since their tuition is already low.

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Anonymous wrote:DCTAG is up to $10,000.

Normally everyone uses the entire $10k unless they attended an Institution that's less than $10 per year, which should be obvious.

It is UP TO $10k for the difference between out of state and in state tuition. None of it if for in state tuition.

There are many schools that will make up the difference and them some. Look at Miami University and South Carolina to start.

Not true. DC students are charged in state tuition for any public school. The cost is not based on the difference between in state and out of state tuition.

This isn't true. As other PP's have stated it is up to $10,000 per year for a public institution. I believe the confusion may be that the original legislation was for DC residents to receive in-state tuition, but what was actually passed was $10,000 (however, don't quote me on that - that's from my memory which is fuzzy sometimes….)

+1. I used to work for OSSE and happen to know the head of the DCTAG program. It's just 10K! That's it. However, it is $2500 for private institution in DC and $2500 for any HBCU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do DCPS parents do about tuition? They move to Virginia and send their children to UVA!

We (and most of our friends) will move to VA or MD when our kids reach high school. DC doesn't support college education. They are just getting their shit together on ECE.

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Anonymous wrote:What do DCPS parents do about tuition? They move to Virginia and send their children to UVA!

We (and most of our friends) will move to VA or MD when our kids reach high school. DC doesn't support college education. They are just getting their shit together on ECE.

What???? How do they not support college educations?

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Anonymous wrote:DCTAG is up to $10,000.

Normally everyone uses the entire $10k unless they attended an Institution that's less than $10 per year, which should be obvious.

It is UP TO $10k for the difference between out of state and in state tuition. None of it if for in state tuition.

There are many schools that will make up the difference and them some. Look at Miami University and South Carolina to start.

Not true. DC students are charged in state tuition for any public school. The cost is not based on the difference between in state and out of state tuition.

This isn't true. As other PP's have stated it is up to $10,000 per year for a public institution. I believe the confusion may be that the original legislation was for DC residents to receive in-state tuition, but what was actually passed was $10,000 (however, don't quote me on that - that's from my memory which is fuzzy sometimes….)

+1. I used to work for OSSE and happen to know the head of the DCTAG program. It's just 10K! That's it. However, it is $2500 for private institution in DC and $2500 for any HBCU.

NP here, let me get this straight, DC residents are charged the out-of-state rate and not the in-state rate of a public university ?

[Anonymous]

DC residents receive through DCTAG up to $10,000 to off-set the tuition for a public institution. Students attending private HBCUs receive $2500 and up to $10,000 for public HBCUs. Private institutions in DC are off-set by $2500.

[Anonymous]

If you want your kid to receive instate tuition at MD or VA school it is best to live in that state. If you think your kid will apply to public school outside of those two states (Univ of Michigan, UC system school, Univ of NC, SC etc), then smart to live in DC and take advantage of TAGS.

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Anonymous wrote:DCTAG is up to $10,000.

Normally everyone uses the entire $10k unless they attended an Institution that's less than $10 per year, which should be obvious.

It is UP TO $10k for the difference between out of state and in state tuition. None of it if for in state tuition.

There are many schools that will make up the difference and them some. Look at Miami University and South Carolina to start.

Not true. DC students are charged in state tuition for any public school. The cost is not based on the difference between in state and out of state tuition.

This isn't true. As other PP's have stated it is up to $10,000 per year for a public institution. I believe the confusion may be that the original legislation was for DC residents to receive in-state tuition, but what was actually passed was $10,000 (however, don't quote me on that - that's from my memory which is fuzzy sometimes….)

+1. I used to work for OSSE and happen to know the head of the DCTAG program. It's just 10K! That's it. However, it is $2500 for private institution in DC and $2500 for any HBCU.

NP here, let me get this straight, DC residents are charged the out-of-state rate and not the in-state rate of a public university ?

Yes, that is correct- just like any other student who comes from out of the state. The DCTAG programs was instituted to mitigate the fact that DC does not have a viable four year public university and to give students (and parents) some relief from the out of state tuitions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC residents receive through DCTAG up to $10,000 to off-set the tuition for a public institution. Students attending private HBCUs receive $2500 and up to $10,000 for public HBCUs. Private institutions in DC are off-set by $2500.

It is to offset the out of state tuition.

"Up to $10,000 per academic year (a maximum of $5,000 per semester) toward the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition at public four-year public colleges and universities in the US, Guam and Puerto Rico (awards will be reduced for less than full-time enrollment) for a lifetime maximum of $50,000. Awards are limited to a maximum of six (6) years from the date of the first semester the student is enrolled in college."

http://osse.dc.gov/service/dc-tuition-assistance-grant-dc-tag-award-amounts

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Anonymous wrote:DCTAG is up to $10,000.

Normally everyone uses the entire $10k unless they attended an Institution that's less than $10 per year, which should be obvious.

It is UP TO $10k for the difference between out of state and in state tuition. None of it if for in state tuition.

There are many schools that will make up the difference and them some. Look at Miami University and South Carolina to start.

Not true. DC students are charged in state tuition for any public school. The cost is not based on the difference between in state and out of state tuition.

This isn't true. As other PP's have stated it is up to $10,000 per year for a public institution. I believe the confusion may be that the original legislation was for DC residents to receive in-state tuition, but what was actually passed was $10,000 (however, don't quote me on that - that's from my memory which is fuzzy sometimes….)

+1. I used to work for OSSE and happen to know the head of the DCTAG program. It's just 10K! That's it. However, it is $2500 for private institution in DC and $2500 for any HBCU.

NP here, let me get this straight, DC residents are charged the out-of-state rate and not the in-state rate of a public university ?

Correct

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to receive instate tuition at MD or VA school it is best to live in that state. If you think your kid will apply to public school outside of those two states (Univ of Michigan, UC system school, Univ of NC, SC etc), then smart to live in DC and take advantage of TAGS.

UC Berkeley
Tuition and Fees $12,972
Nonresidents of California, add $22,878 in nonresident supplemental tuition and fees.
($10,000) DCTAG

total $25,850/year

http://admissions.berkeley.edu/costofattendance

[Anonymous]

We used DC TAG fro two kids. We paid out of state tuition minus the 10K from DC TAG. No one pays "in-state" tuition. In fact, the 10K from DC isn't very helpful these days, as out of state tuition has increased so much. DC3 ended up with a much better FA package from an SLAC than a state school with DC TAG.

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Our FA package was much better at an expensive SLAC than DCTAG for UVA.

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If you look at less selective public schools the difference is not so great. DCTAG would cover the entire difference at Alabama, Longwood or Norfolk State, and most of the difference at Towson, Radford or Mary Washington. Plenty of schools in the country available under this plan.