2024 Washington DC area College commits

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Anonymous wrote:Those who qualify for financial aid are usually disadvantaged in most other ways. Nice try though.

Princeton offer financial aid to families earning up to $300,000 a year. And for any family earning less than $100,000, it's absolutely free. Tuition, room, and board. Several other of the high endowment privates are similar. If you can into these schools, it's going to work. These schools aren't just for the poor and the rich. If you're a stellar middle or upper middle class student, there's space for you at Yale and Pomona and Rice and similar.

Your comment was very snide.

If $100,000 is considered “poor,” you are horribly out of touch.

Family of three or four or more with one student heading to college is poor with respect to ability to pay $80,000-$90,000+ per year for a private college or university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people on this thread are trying to convince us that those who live in the Churchill cluster can’t afford college?

You come across as ignorant. Potomac is not all mega mansions. It has some affordable areas as well. Most people there are reasonably well off but affording full college tuition for multiple kids is a massive amount of money. Get out of your elite bubble once in a while

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who qualify for financial aid are usually disadvantaged in most other ways. Nice try though.

Princeton offer financial aid to families earning up to $300,000 a year. And for any family earning less than $100,000, it's absolutely free. Tuition, room, and board. Several other of the high endowment privates are similar. If you can into these schools, it's going to work. These schools aren't just for the poor and the rich. If you're a stellar middle or upper middle class student, there's space for you at Yale and Pomona and Rice and similar.

Your comment was very snide.

If $100,000 is considered “poor,” you are horribly out of touch.

100k is "Potomac poor" (Bethesda poor and CC poor, too)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those who qualify for financial aid are usually disadvantaged in most other ways. Nice try though.

Princeton offer financial aid to families earning up to $300,000 a year. And for any family earning less than $100,000, it's absolutely free. Tuition, room, and board. Several other of the high endowment privates are similar. If you can into these schools, it's going to work. These schools aren't just for the poor and the rich. If you're a stellar middle or upper middle class student, there's space for you at Yale and Pomona and Rice and similar.

Your comment was very snide.

If $100,000 is considered “poor,” you are horribly out of touch.

Family of three or four or more with one student heading to college is poor with respect to ability to pay $80,000-$90,000+ per year for a private college or university.

They're still not poor. No one is entitled to afford expensive things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Then tell us, what percentage of Churchill families can’t afford college?

Yes, not only that but according to them they aren’t kids of privilege who haven’t paid through the nose with SAT prep, extracurriculars and “packaging”!!!

/s

A lot of jealous non W school families commenting here. Quite entertaining to witness here on the private school forum.

Well private school is very expensive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You come across as ignorant. Potomac is not all mega mansions. It has some affordable areas as well. Most people there are reasonably well off but affording full college tuition for multiple kids is a massive amount of money. Get out of your elite bubble once in a while

"Affordable areas" for those whose kids attend Wheaton, Seneca Valley, or Einstein?

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Anonymous wrote:Private school is an investment.

Maybe it is for you. Not for everyone. Some choose it simply because the experience of learning is much more enjoyable for their kids. In the same way that some people will pay way more money for private jets or first class plane tickets, staying at five-star hotels, eating at Michelin-starred restaurants, skipping the lines at Disney, or sitting in the front row or club seats at sporting events/concerts.

said no one ever

I say this (in my head) all the time. The experiences of my nieces and nephews in their public schools make me think it all the time. We're basically buying a classroom environment with little to no disruptions, among other things. It's not lost on me that we enjoy the experience as much as the education itself.

We’re at a DC charter and get this experience for free.

I wouldn’t send my children to any DC charter schools. Even if specific charters have less disruptive student behavior than others, you’re still dealing with academically low performing classmates; poor to middling facilities; and a start-up educational experience. I don’t want my children to be educational Guinea pigs.

NP. Basis DC does quite well, as does Latin. Even DCI kids can excel despite being "guinea pigs", I hear they already have an MIT acceptance!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Private school is an investment.

Maybe it is for you. Not for everyone. Some choose it simply because the experience of learning is much more enjoyable for their kids. In the same way that some people will pay way more money for private jets or first class plane tickets, staying at five-star hotels, eating at Michelin-starred restaurants, skipping the lines at Disney, or sitting in the front row or club seats at sporting events/concerts.

said no one ever

I say this (in my head) all the time. The experiences of my nieces and nephews in their public schools make me think it all the time. We're basically buying a classroom environment with little to no disruptions, among other things. It's not lost on me that we enjoy the experience as much as the education itself.

We’re at a DC charter and get this experience for free.

I wouldn’t send my children to any DC charter schools. Even if specific charters have less disruptive student behavior than others, you’re still dealing with academically low performing classmates; poor to middling facilities; and a start-up educational experience. I don’t want my children to be educational Guinea pigs.

NP. Basis DC does quite well, as does Latin. Even DCI kids can excel despite being "guinea pigs", I hear they already have an MIT acceptance!

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

Am I th wonky one who finds this entire thread super creepy? As a mom of a HS student these kids created the decision Instagram handles to celebrate their success with their classmates, not to have their full names, photos and personal Instagram handles paraded on DCUM. JEFF?

[Anonymous]

I meant ^am I the only one

[Anonymous]

What about Harvard Westlake or Brentwood Academy (LA) for perspective anyone have the links?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I th wonky one who finds this entire thread super creepy? As a mom of a HS student these kids created the decision Instagram handles to celebrate their success with their classmates, not to have their full names, photos and personal Instagram handles paraded on DCUM. JEFF?

No. It’s gross.

I don’t want my kid to post acceptance.

It’s really creepy how they tear sbout kids and then make assumptions about their legacy status or if they are in athlete- they couldn’t possibly have had straight As and perfect test scores—just a dumb jock.

But- we are pretty anti social media.

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[Anonymous]

Guys, we should start a charity for everyone living in Potomac! They are the real poors.