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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our oldest started 3rd grade this year at one of the more competitive admissions process schools. We've been thrilled with the school, and want her younger sister to attend from prekindergarten onward if possible. Our younger one will be applying to preK next year (in Fall 2026).

It sounds like our 3rd grader is doing well (her teachers have mentioned a few times how well things are going and what a positive addition she is to the class), which should hopefully help her sister's application (I think, at least?).

The school (like most, I presume) heavily encourages parent donations. We've received some mass emails and mailed communications about how we can donate, and there are numerous school events throughout the year where parents are encouraged to make an annual monetary donation to the school. We've also been contacted directly by the person who heads fundraising for the school asking for a meeting (we have that meeting scheduled in 3 weeks time).

We are decently charitable people, and we are happy to give something to the school, but we are sort of stuck on what the right number is. And more specifically, what number the school would want to more favorably look at our younger's application. And perhaps what number is too low that it would actually hurt our younger child's application.

My husband and I both have jobs that tend to have wide ranging income potentials, so I don't think the school can glean how well off (or not) we are from that. The only data they presumably have is that we pay full tuition and we bought our home two years ago for $2.7 million. We are financially comfortable, but not splashy rich by any means (we both work, we budget, we drive normal cars etc - and we now have to consider paying 2 large private school tuitions if our younger child gets in).

I apologize if this is a weird question and I do appreciate any answers, as we are totally new to the private school world.  [/quote]

Not a weird question.  Look at the annual report and specifically the buckets they consider the highest.  The one that usually comes with dinner is what you should target - it will be called honor donation or SomeNamed Society donation.  One of our schools is 5k the other is 7500.  That’s about the ballpark to hit.  We donate enough to get into those circles every year because we still have 2 kids to go.[/quote]

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