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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s killing private schools is the tuition. It’s creating a barbell effect where only extremely wealthy families and those on financial aid can attend. Kids of journalists, government workers, and not-for-profits, not so much, and that makes for a less appealing school environment.

The college admissions bump comes from being able to apply ED because you were full pay at your private and will be full pay at the university. [/quote]

This is the reason we ended up not sending kids to private, though I will admit that I still struggle with the decision to reject. However, I didn't think that the student body was diverse enough financially or intellectually to warrant the astronomical tuition. Many of the parents in our neighborhood are lawyers, engineers, researchers, etc., and are well educated and value academics. We all send our kids to public. The privates that we looked at had student bodies and families (that we know personally) which are incredibly wealthy, of course, but lacked the diversity mentioned above. That alone makes me question the value of $50K privates for a family who does not already have millions at their disposal in the bank.

Thanks for the post, OP. I still struggle with the decision and often wonder if we made the right choice. [/quote]

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