Happy IVY (reaping) day!

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Anonymous wrote:ok, but $90k/year isn't a workable stretch for anyone who is truly middle class. Not by a long shot.

Middle class people don't pay 90k. We pay 20-45k

Dartmouth just announced that anyone making under $125k gets to go for free

Seriously considering dropping to the lowest salary threshold to maintain benefits.

You have to do that for the prior, prior year and then maintain it all the way through the 3rd year of college. So I think you'd likely end up losing more than you'd gain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ok, but $90k/year isn't a workable stretch for anyone who is truly middle class. Not by a long shot.

Middle class people don't pay 90k. We pay 20-45k

Yes $300-450k are full pay $95k/year.

I should have quit my job and gone to a 1-bread winner household a few years ago. lol

$300K - $450K isn't middle class.

Didn't all the research into the Ivies for the Harvard lawsuit reveal that Ivy student bodies are predominately wealthy fully pay or diversity admits at full financial aid and relatively few in between, aka the middle classes? One thing the data made clear was that the middle classes may dominate the US but they are a minority at the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

Here’s a crazy idea. Tell your kid you won’t pay 90k.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

Here’s a crazy idea. Tell your kid you won’t pay 90k.

That should've been a conversation before applying and then not applying. Why let them apply if you can't pay it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

Here’s a crazy idea. Tell your kid you won’t pay 90k.

Bc the parent still wants the kid to get in and will find a way if the kid does.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

Here’s a crazy idea. Tell your kid you won’t pay 90k.

Bc the parent still wants the kid to get in and will find a way if the kid does.

And then come to an anonymous message board and complain about it? Seems productive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

UVA is closer to 55k for Engineering &/or extra Bus school fees, and also has unlisted costs of off campus housing that adds up fast. Ivies/T10 may be closer to 90k now but that price has more"all-in " costs listed. They are well worth it for people who do not need loans to do it. Its night and day: smaller classes , connected profs, huge endowments that fund TA and research jobs, boosts for top law /grad/med, and then just the peers themselves.

I think that tomorrow you are going to say "UVA is closer to $60K" because that seems to be your pattern, anther $5K per month. It's less than $50K today and that includes their very inflated "additional costs" section which is wayyy more than it actually costs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

UVA is closer to 55k for Engineering &/or extra Bus school fees, and also has unlisted costs of off campus housing that adds up fast. Ivies/T10 may be closer to 90k now but that price has more"all-in " costs listed. They are well worth it for people who do not need loans to do it. Its night and day: smaller classes , connected profs, huge endowments that fund TA and research jobs, boosts for top law /grad/med, and then just the peers themselves.

I think that tomorrow you are going to say "UVA is closer to $60K" because that seems to be your pattern, anther $5K per month. It's less than $50K today and that includes their very inflated "additional costs" section which is wayyy more than it actually costs.

and that is only engineering, McIntire or Batten. Plain old arts and sciences is $39K but that is again totally not the number you actually pay unless you're kid is flying there (which would be a challenge instate) and spends $1500 in books every year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ok, but $90k/year isn't a workable stretch for anyone who is truly middle class. Not by a long shot.

Middle class people don't pay 90k. We pay 20-45k

Dartmouth just announced that anyone making under $125k gets to go for free

So the people that make $100k more basically get to pay the difference they make directly to tuition. Why even effing work in this country?

They likely get some aid too

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ok, but $90k/year isn't a workable stretch for anyone who is truly middle class. Not by a long shot.

Middle class people don't pay 90k. We pay 20-45k

Yes $300-450k are full pay $95k/year.

I should have quit my job and gone to a 1-bread winner household a few years ago. lol

$300K - $450K isn't middle class.

I never said it was. I said I should have quit my job like a like of households with moms that don't work to bring down the HHI a few years prior to college.

So give up 200k/year to save 40-50k?
Also, I think the calculation fir same hhi is different if one parent doesn't work than if both work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

Here’s a crazy idea. Tell your kid you won’t pay 90k.

Bc the parent still wants the kid to get in and will find a way if the kid does.

And then come to an anonymous message board and complain about it? Seems productive.

And yet that’s what she’s doing. Otherwise, apps are pulled and it’s a non issue or you’re not replaying to Ivy day posts because it’s a non issue. It’s still an issue to her bc if her kid’s accepted, it’s on the table.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ok, but $90k/year isn't a workable stretch for anyone who is truly middle class. Not by a long shot.

Middle class people don't pay 90k. We pay 20-45k

Yes $300-450k are full pay $95k/year.

I should have quit my job and gone to a 1-bread winner household a few years ago. lol

$300K - $450K isn't middle class.

Didn't all the research into the Ivies for the Harvard lawsuit reveal that Ivy student bodies are predominately wealthy fully pay or diversity admits at full financial aid and relatively few in between, aka the middle classes? One thing the data made clear was that the middle classes may dominate the US but they are a minority at the Ivies.

It breaks down generally like 45% receive significant aid, 16% are from the top 1%...and then the rest (39%) are full pay from the spectrum of what would make you full pay. Princeton is more generous with aid compared to the other Ivy schools, to it is like 60% receive aid (though that now captures a group that may only receive say like $5k per year), 16% are top 1% and then 26% are full pay.

I wouldn't call it relatively few "in between".

[Anonymous]

Top 1% here and I’m expecting rejections today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now wishing my kid didn’t apply.

$38k for UVA vs $90k for most of them is tough nut.

UVA is closer to 55k for Engineering &/or extra Bus school fees, and also has unlisted costs of off campus housing that adds up fast. Ivies/T10 may be closer to 90k now but that price has more"all-in " costs listed. They are well worth it for people who do not need loans to do it. Its night and day: smaller classes , connected profs, huge endowments that fund TA and research jobs, boosts for top law /grad/med, and then just the peers themselves.

Yeah- 90K/year we would need loans. We wouldn't with UVA. Kid is not in engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s great how folks are being more practical-no secret how everyone knows the smartest kids with the greatest degree of merit are all located in Honors colleges of flagship state schools. Ivys all a DEI/legacy gamed admit these days!!

keep justifying your child's rejections