What percentage do you pay?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

Okay, you definitely don’t have kids in private.

Maybe not your type of private.

Guess not!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

Okay, you definitely don’t have kids in private.

Maybe not your type of private.

Maybe you just have an ax to grind with your kid’s school, and not the aid programs of every private school ever?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know on financial aid are multimillionaires who are just strategic about masking their assets/income for purposes like this.

I’ll let the single mom nurse whose kid is in my class know.

Doesn’t exist. Nice try.

Okay, you definitely don’t have kids in private.

Maybe not your type of private.

Maybe you just have an ax to grind with your kid’s school, and not the aid programs of every private school ever?

None of us are familiar with aid at every private school. I know multiple schools that get it wrong though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we have HHI 400K and when we had 3 at a $60K private we essentially paid for 2 (received 30% aid). Now we're down to one kid and we're full pay.

(and please spare any comments on how we shouldn't have had 3 kids)

You are precisely who we need to have babies!

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Anonymous wrote:We paid full freight K-12 for our only child and you’re correct— we made 13 years of certain sacrifices. Not retirement, etc but home renovations, new Audi SUVs, updated wardrobes every year …. (am listing the representative things my CCDC neighbors buy that we had to skip)

Would do the same thing again. Kid got a much better education at 2 DC independents than my friends’ kids in MoCo and NWDC.

If you are in CCDC you are plenty wealthy and not making any real sacrifices. Be real.

Which is why I intentionally chose the words “certain sacrifices.” Sacrificing a better house is still a sacrifice. You don’t need to be destitute and homeless to term a financial decision a “sacrifice.”

Sending your kids to private school does not require a “sacrifice”. When you spend money on something, you aren’t spending it on something else. That is how money works. When you buy a coat, there is another coat you didn’t buy. That isn’t a sacrifice, that’s how buying things works.

When my kids started in private school we were in a 2 bedroom 1 bath home, and we took a driving vacation to Grandma’s. We chose that home and that school when we could have chosen a 3 bedroom 2 bath school and public school and Grandma’s or the 2 bedroom home and public school and Paris. That doesn’t mean we sacrificed Paris or having a master bathroom. It’s just that we chose private school.

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Anonymous wrote:we have HHI 400K and when we had 3 at a $60K private we essentially paid for 2 (received 30% aid). Now we're down to one kid and we're full pay.

(and please spare any comments on how we shouldn't have had 3 kids)

You are precisely who we need to have babies!

Who is the "we" you are referencing? And why do "we" need that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we have HHI 400K and when we had 3 at a $60K private we essentially paid for 2 (received 30% aid). Now we're down to one kid and we're full pay.

(and please spare any comments on how we shouldn't have had 3 kids)

You are precisely who we need to have babies!

Who is the "we" you are referencing? And why do "we" need that?

Indeed.

[Anonymous]

I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we have HHI 400K and when we had 3 at a $60K private we essentially paid for 2 (received 30% aid). Now we're down to one kid and we're full pay.

(and please spare any comments on how we shouldn't have had 3 kids)

You are precisely who we need to have babies!

Who is the "we" you are referencing? And why do "we" need that?

Our country so we have gainfully employed people paying into SS for our old asses.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

No, but if a real estate company that owned a bunch of mansions started giving them away to some people at a discount, we all know some of the posters here would be the first ones bitching about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

No, but if a real estate company that owned a bunch of mansions started giving them away to some people at a discount, we all know some of the posters here would be the first ones bitching about it.

Real estate companies would prefer to sale them at the full price. The people that want a mansion but can afford a condo, can go to a condo and live happily there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

Yes. There is financial assistance for first-time homebuyers all over the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

Yes. There is financial assistance for first-time homebuyers all over the country.

That’s nice. Then it must be easy to get a 30% mansion assistance. We really need it because of our low income.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

No, but if a real estate company that owned a bunch of mansions started giving them away to some people at a discount, we all know some of the posters here would be the first ones bitching about it.

Real estate companies would prefer to sale them at the full price. The people that want a mansion but can afford a condo, can go to a condo and live happily there.

There aren't enough families able and willing to pay full price for private school to keep most private schools open.

Financial aid works because it is better to have some money and someone in that spot than no money and no one in that spot.

Real estate market does sort of work like that. If the mansions in that neighborhood aren't selling at all after all the best efforts, the price for them will start dropping...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can only afford a two bedroom apartment, but in fact I want to live in a mansion. Is there any financial aid to purchase a mansion?

No, but if a real estate company that owned a bunch of mansions started giving them away to some people at a discount, we all know some of the posters here would be the first ones bitching about it.

Real estate companies would prefer to sale them at the full price. The people that want a mansion but can afford a condo, can go to a condo and live happily there.

There aren't enough families able and willing to pay full price for private school to keep most private schools open.

Financial aid works because it is better to have some money and someone in that spot than no money and no one in that spot.

Real estate market does sort of work like that. If the mansions in that neighborhood aren't selling at all after all the best efforts, the price for them will start dropping...

The admission rate in many private schools is around 10 percent or less. There are enough full paying families around to cover all costs.