Considering Elite NE Boarding Schools for Son (Taft, Choate, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, etc.) Any advice?

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

Actually FA also goes to fac brats.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

FA depends on the year. Sometimes the institutional priorities dictate that they take more full pay students than usual.

Financial aid goes to URMs and hockey players. It doesn’t go to high achieving whites

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a New England town with a fancy boarding school. DC did not get in even with 99th percentile SSAT scores and a very strong resume. They admitted classes who were ALC (legacy at Harvard but terrible at school). Fine. All of them went to schools that I will not mention. DC was admitted to Harvard.

I say this because you should figure out what you want DC to get from boarding school. If it’s an elite college, it’s not a guarantee. If it’s connections, maybe? Other kids I know who attended the boarding school have not kept up with old friends and their parents said it was a waste of money.

Are you willing to name the boarding school ?

Like another poster guessed, it’s one closer to Boston. Not comfortable saying more. They do accept a bunch of kids from our town though. Some years they look for math whizzes, other years full pay kids. It’s completely based on institutional priorities. Wished we had applied to more than one boarding school, but not getting in prepared us for college admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

50% of NW leaves A LOT of rich kids and MANY of them have parents at Congo, Kenwood, and Columbia (not CC). There aren’t enough spots at St Albans to take all their kids. Many transfer out after DCPS K-8. Why are you so ignorant of this?

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a New England town with a fancy boarding school. DC did not get in even with 99th percentile SSAT scores and a very strong resume. They admitted classes who were ALC (legacy at Harvard but terrible at school). Fine. All of them went to schools that I will not mention. DC was admitted to Harvard.

I say this because you should figure out what you want DC to get from boarding school. If it’s an elite college, it’s not a guarantee. If it’s connections, maybe? Other kids I know who attended the boarding school have not kept up with old friends and their parents said it was a waste of money.

Are you willing to name the boarding school ?

Like another poster guessed, it’s one closer to Boston. Not comfortable saying more. They do accept a bunch of kids from our town though. Some years they look for math whizzes, other years full pay kids. It’s completely based on institutional priorities. Wished we had applied to more than one boarding school, but not getting in prepared us for college admissions.

Yep. They probably wanted a bone headed hockey player with a 70-something SSAT instead of a strong student. Doesn’t cease to amaze me and it has been a problem for decades and decades

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

50% of NW leaves A LOT of rich kids and MANY of them have parents at Congo, Kenwood, and Columbia (not CC). There aren’t enough spots at St Albans to take all their kids. Many transfer out after DCPS K-8. Why are you so ignorant of this?

It’s funny…you are completely full of shit and keep doubling down…50% includes all the people in the apartment complexes which doesn’t leave a huge number of SFH owners.

You double and triple down on your bizarro fantasy which you know isn’t true.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

50% of NW leaves A LOT of rich kids and MANY of them have parents at Congo, Kenwood, and Columbia (not CC). There aren’t enough spots at St Albans to take all their kids. Many transfer out after DCPS K-8. Why are you so ignorant of this?

It’s funny…you are completely full of shit and keep doubling down…50% includes all the people in the apartment complexes which doesn’t leave a huge number of SFH owners.

You double and triple down on your bizarro fantasy which you know isn’t true.

You clearly never belonged to a nice DC country club. I hope life in Silver Spring is treating you well

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

50% of NW leaves A LOT of rich kids and MANY of them have parents at Congo, Kenwood, and Columbia (not CC). There aren’t enough spots at St Albans to take all their kids. Many transfer out after DCPS K-8. Why are you so ignorant of this?

It’s funny…you are completely full of shit and keep doubling down…50% includes all the people in the apartment complexes which doesn’t leave a huge number of SFH owners.

You double and triple down on your bizarro fantasy which you know isn’t true.

You clearly never belonged to a nice DC country club. I hope life in Silver Spring is treating you well

Well…it’s clear you don’t…you have no clue who belongs…considering you are completely full of shit.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college. At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income. I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools.

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school.

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman!

This doesn’t make much sense. Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them. That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either.

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays.

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families.

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW.

That’s absurd. “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS. Some may do so.

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school

WTF are you talking about? I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.

Hence why I didn’t say CC….

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too). This is silly and you know it.

Very different clubs

Still just as silly as a comment. Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.

Kenwood is full of rich members. Many are richer than CC which has a lot of legacies who aren’t doing too hot in this economy.

This makes no sense. CC annual dues are much higher than Kenwood. Are you claiming they let them skip paying because they are "legacies"?

New CC membership fees are also much higher and they do keep adding members.

Legacies at most country clubs pay much reduced initiation fees, as in over a 50% discount. CC monthly dues aren’t even that high.

Normal people aren’t paying Kenwood’s dues.

Kenwood’s dues really aren’t that high (and like 50% if your kids want to join) again, much lower than CC.

Monthly dues at Kenwood are also much lower. I mean CC has so many additional facilities that Kenwood doesn’t have like an ice hockey rink.

You don’t know what you are talking about…at all.

Your median DC and MD family does not have the disposable income to pay Kenwood dues. Members there are often rich and those that are often send their children to DCPS. As do members of Congo and Columbia.

Completely full of shit. The vast majority of all country club members (like 95%+) at Kenwood, Congressional, Columbia and CC send their kids to private schools.

It’s like you are in bizarro world where now all the “rich” people in DC send their kids to DCPS, even though 50% of upper NW sends their kids to private school (many members of these clubs) and it’s safe to say that all the people renting on CT Avenue are sending their kids to DCPS which doesn’t leave a massive %age of SFH owners left.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t UMC kids at Walls and JR…but far fewer than MoCo HSs or say Langley in VA.

50% of NW leaves A LOT of rich kids and MANY of them have parents at Congo, Kenwood, and Columbia (not CC). There aren’t enough spots at St Albans to take all their kids. Many transfer out after DCPS K-8. Why are you so ignorant of this?

It’s funny…you are completely full of shit and keep doubling down…50% includes all the people in the apartment complexes which doesn’t leave a huge number of SFH owners.

You double and triple down on your bizarro fantasy which you know isn’t true.

You clearly never belonged to a nice DC country club. I hope life in Silver Spring is treating you well

Well…it’s clear you don’t…you have no clue who belongs…considering you are completely full of shit.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

No. We just truly cannot believe that any parent would sacrifice these four years with their own child.

Sometimes it is necessary to make extremely painful sacrifices to give your child the best you can.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots.

No. We just truly cannot believe that any parent would sacrifice these four years with their own child.

Sometimes it is necessary to make extremely painful sacrifices to give your child the best you can.

Yep. And if you have time and the inclination to go on anonymous chat boards to make blanket statements attacking whole groups of peoples’ parenting, then maybe your child is better off in the care of someone other than you…

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What do you get out of being so vile to a random internet stranger? I’m genuinely curious about people like you.