Annual Fund at Top Area Preschool

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Top preschool, have to give $40K, minimum. $75K for special treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

Wasn't there a suggested amount on the letter?

Ours was around $1000.

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Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

Wasn't there a suggested amount on the letter?

Ours was around $1000.

If there was, I didn't see it. Thank you, that's helpful.

[Anonymous]

My kids must have gone to a bottom area preschool because I didn't give even $50.

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Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

LOL. In can tell you this is way more than average. Perhaps you should just ask someone you know at the school.

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Back when my kids were in a "top area preschool" (think St. Johns, NCRC, Little Folks School, etc.), we gave $1500 per/year. Back then, this was reportedly the gap amount. Others gave much more and others gave less but I think most families gave the gap amount.

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Anonymous wrote:How much to give? Is it a percentage of the tuition? What is a "normal" gift? What have you done? Thanks for any insights! I googled, but can't seem to find any information.

There’s a preschool forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Back when my kids were in a "top area preschool" (think St. Johns, NCRC, Little Folks School, etc.), we gave $1500 per/year. Back then, this was reportedly the gap amount. Others gave much more and others gave less but I think most families gave the gap amount.

Bunch of suckers!

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Anonymous wrote:Back when my kids were in a "top area preschool" (think St. Johns, NCRC, Little Folks School, etc.), we gave $1500 per/year. Back then, this was reportedly the gap amount. Others gave much more and others gave less but I think most families gave the gap amount.

And please tell us all how being at this “top area preschool,” which you cleverly refuse to name but we’re all supposed to infer, has benefited your child, as compared to any neighbor child who did not matriculate at a “top” preschool?

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Top preschool makes me laugh out loud every single time I see those words. As does upscale suburb.

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Anonymous wrote:Back when my kids were in a "top area preschool" (think St. Johns, NCRC, Little Folks School, etc.), we gave $1500 per/year. Back then, this was reportedly the gap amount. Others gave much more and others gave less but I think most families gave the gap amount.

And please tell us all how being at this “top area preschool,” which you cleverly refuse to name but we’re all supposed to infer, has benefited your child, as compared to any neighbor child who did not matriculate at a “top” preschool?

I am the poster you quoted. It did not matter at all. We all loved the school experience and we made great friends but that could have happened at almost any preschool. I was not suggesting that the school was superior in any way. The original question asked what common giving amounts were at "top area preschools" and I answered the question - the preschool my kids attended is widely known in the area as one of the most difficult to get into for any number of reasons including simple supply and demand. We picked it because it seemed very sweet/loving, conveniently located to where we live and work, and we could afford it. It was very common in this relatively small school to give $1500/year on top of the regular tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

Only if your husband is an Executive.

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Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

Only if your husband is an Executive.

At a Top Company.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:and what is the area? Are you in DC? Vienna? Gaithersburg? San Francisco? St. Louis?

Without getting too specific, one of the upscale close-in suburbs.

Country Day? Give $100-$500

Only if you want to be known as a cheapskate.

Would $750 be considered low around here? Or is that acceptable?

Around here in general, or at a Top Preschool?

No, not in general.

Then yes, that’s low.

Thank you. So $1000 is about right?

Only if your husband is an Executive.

At a Top Company.

From an upscale suburb

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Anonymous wrote:Back when my kids were in a "top area preschool" (think St. Johns, NCRC, Little Folks School, etc.), we gave $1500 per/year. Back then, this was reportedly the gap amount. Others gave much more and others gave less but I think most families gave the gap amount.

And please tell us all how being at this “top area preschool,” which you cleverly refuse to name but we’re all supposed to infer, has benefited your child, as compared to any neighbor child who did not matriculate at a “top” preschool?

I am the poster you quoted. It did not matter at all. We all loved the school experience and we made great friends but that could have happened at almost any preschool. I was not suggesting that the school was superior in any way. The original question asked what common giving amounts were at "top area preschools" and I answered the question - the preschool my kids attended is widely known in the area as one of the most difficult to get into for any number of reasons including simple supply and demand. We picked it because it seemed very sweet/loving, conveniently located to where we live and work, and we could afford it. It was very common in this relatively small school to give $1500/year on top of the regular tuition.

So a preschool that is “the most difficult to get into” = “top preschool “ in your mind. Got it.
Thanks for the clarification