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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic high schools give merit scholarships based on the HSPT score. My kid got $10k a year discount on a $20k tuition a few years ago. Kid had 99th percentile score.

My kids --straight As and 98 HSPT scores got nothing at our Catholic independent.

98 is listed as a scholarship score, but I think it is mainly awarded to kids needing financial aid at our school.

[Anonymous]

Is TJ and option for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catholic high schools give merit scholarships based on the HSPT score. My kid got $10k a year discount on a $20k tuition a few years ago. Kid had 99th percentile score.

My kids --straight As and 98 HSPT scores got nothing at our Catholic independent.

98 is listed as a scholarship score, but I think it is mainly awarded to kids needing financial aid at our school.

Are you Catholic or did your kids come from a Catholic middle school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are Sidwell and NCS need blind (meaning they will offer a spot regardless of financial aid need then separately offer aid which may or may not be what you think you need)?

NCS is not. Sidwell may be.

I don’t know there is a family at a Big 3 that belonged to country clubs and expensive social clubs in town while on financial aid for years and we were all paying for their lifestyle for years and still are - while neither parent worked. And no there were no health issues. Just entitlement. Many people deceased their annual fund donations because of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entitlement is unreal

+1
We give generously to our scholarship fund at our k-12 and I’d be livid if even a cent went to a family like yours. Rent a room in your house, tutor on the side, pull out a heloc, etc. The kids i know at our school who receive generous aid are not in a position to do any of the above. My dd’s good friend is first generation, both parents work 2 jobs, the grandparents, parents and all 3 kids live in a 2 bedroom apt. These are the families that benefit bc private would be out of reach, and it has been life changing for this little girl. Her alternative would be to go to an awful public school w/ no support bc only one parent is even fluent in English.

What a tool. So basically you have to be POOR to get aid. You are ridiculous. You expect 7 people to live in a 2 bedroom apt before you would deign to give them access to your school. I bet you feel really good about yourself. What a dbag.

[Anonymous]

Just do public.

[Anonymous]

When you fill out FA information be honest about what you can afford to pay and the school will determine if it's appropriate. I would not go any lower than 35k for Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

I wish these rich fks would just pay their taxes and stop corrupting society in the name of jebuz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catholic high schools give merit scholarships based on the HSPT score. My kid got $10k a year discount on a $20k tuition a few years ago. Kid had 99th percentile score.

My kids --straight As and 98 HSPT scores got nothing at our Catholic independent.

98 is listed as a scholarship score, but I think it is mainly awarded to kids needing financial aid at our school.

Are you Catholic or did your kids come from a Catholic middle school?

My kid did not come from parochial school nor are we Catholic. A parish Catholic high school offered this much, but nothing from the independent Catholic schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entitlement is unreal

+1
We give generously to our scholarship fund at our k-12 and I’d be livid if even a cent went to a family like yours. Rent a room in your house, tutor on the side, pull out a heloc, etc. The kids i know at our school who receive generous aid are not in a position to do any of the above. My dd’s good friend is first generation, both parents work 2 jobs, the grandparents, parents and all 3 kids live in a 2 bedroom apt. These are the families that benefit bc private would be out of reach, and it has been life changing for this little girl. Her alternative would be to go to an awful public school w/ no support bc only one parent is even fluent in English.

What a tool. So basically you have to be POOR to get aid. You are ridiculous. You expect 7 people to live in a 2 bedroom apt before you would deign to give them access to your school. I bet you feel really good about yourself. What a dbag.

I am aware that the previous poster is probably a troll, but in fact, YES, you need to be poor to receive subsidized tuition to a private institution. Financial aid exists to provide educational opportunities to those who can't afford it, not to ensure that you have enough left over money for a nice annual vacation to disney.

[Anonymous]

We are on FA with 2 in MS. I'm told above $285k is where the line gets drawn. We receive 60% aid total. I think $300k changes that to much less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are on FA with 2 in MS. I'm told above $285k is where the line gets drawn. We receive 60% aid total. I think $300k changes that to much less.

It depends a lot on the school. There are others that draw the line much higher if you have more than one kid (and a tuition bill of $110K or $165K). It is really school specific (which of course makes sense).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are on FA with 2 in MS. I'm told above $285k is where the line gets drawn. We receive 60% aid total. I think $300k changes that to much less.

That sounds unfair though… It’s should decrease FA by maybe 5%, but not much less with only 15k more per year.

To the PP that says that you need to be poor to get FA, what is poi to you? Is it someone on food stamp or someone that cannot reasonably afford private school tuition, but that still has parents with good paying jobs (250k HHI for one kid for example)?

[Anonymous]

No chance the difference in treatment is that drastic for small differences in HHI. I'd be shocked if schools didn't operate with some kind of sliding scale.

[Anonymous]

Anybody posting that you are wealthy on this boards is obviously not a true DC person! They live outside the DC area.