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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you are real and not a troll ... DC attends a T50 private. DC worked hard and competed for a full tuition scholarship. DC likes the private school a lot, but make no mistake - the financial investment does not stop at tuition. [b]There's greek organization dues, going out with friends, trips, study and travel abroad, and general keeping up with the (wealthy) crowd when your student attends a private college.[/b] Our second child attends a state school, for which we pay more in tuition, but does not have the same level of additional financial pressures. [/quote]

Mine are at two different ivies. Not true there, they both spend far far less per month than our very good friends who have kids at UVA, UNC and UCLA. They spend $3-5k a semester on food outside of dining and all the parties and drinking. 
Ivies have so much stuff for free or minimal cost on campus and on weekends, dues for clubs have to be kept very small for the kids on aid(OVER half), and greek is not that common so when it happens it is not a $ dump like the 5k per semester other places. Going abroad was the cheapest semester we had. Elite privates are much less wealth centric than preppy publics and non-elite privates like SMU, BC, NYU[/quote]    But you pay so much for tuition. We're not rich but too rich for aid and I don't see how 80k/year with low expenses is possibly cheaper than 30k/year with higher expenses. I can see NYY due to housing, but not big publics.                                                                       [/quote]

It’s not, and PP also has no idea whether her kids spend “far far less” per month than kids at other schools.[/quote]

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