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[quote=Anonymous]Private schools are for rich kids to get away from poor kids like yours. That’s just the way it is.  They’ll say stuff like “hey we’re 50k but 30 percent of our kids get some aid,” which means that 70 percent are rich enough to pay full freight and the large majority of the other 30 are paying at least 10k.  That means rich.  It’s kind of disgusting, actually.  And for what?  As is often discussed on this board, even the very best privates here don’t place as well as many privates in NYC and other places and some publics do nearly as well too.  So we’re talking about kids sheltered by money who aren’t necessarily the best of the best.

A very close relative was accepted at virtually every private the family applied to.  Very good student but not exactly an Einstein and with no outstanding extras.  Great kid, really.  But the paltry aid offered still made the price prohibitive.  The one school that waitlisted made clear that they’d make room if the kid would full pay.   That says it all.  We’re not talking “need blind” admissions — you pay, you’re in.

Terrible system. [/quote]

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