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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my advice, send your kids to public until they are ready for middle school or high school, and then apply to a big 3 and see what aid you are offered.  At this age the decisions made by private school boil down to how much they want your kid. It has very little do do to with parents. If your child is very high achieving, interesting, empathetic, interviews well and has special talents to contribute to the community you will get a significant FA offer,  If not, your child may not get admitted or may get admitted but with little or no aid.  This thread seems to be about ethics and whether certain groups of people deserve private school if the cannot pay the full tuition.  In reality, the emphasis  should be on the student.  The top schools want kids who will get into the top twenty universities and be leaders or provide special talents to the school, eg sports, music, leadership, etc.  They need these kids to keep up with the competition.  This may not be very pleasant, because there are plenty of bright, good kids, who get turned away.  But private schools are selective when it comes to aid at the upper entry years.   Parental status, etc. is much less important to them than who your kids is and what he/she offers the school.  This approach worked for us.[/quote]

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