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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Most people that may be able to afford tuition, but only without saving anything or moving to a worst neighnorhood (most people that make between $150-200k) would likely end up not choosing the school. So the school gives incentives (FA) to retain some... it makes for a better school.[/quote]
This is where we disagree most.  As noted in another thread this morning, $200K is just about top 10 percent in the DC area, and even $150K is top 25 percent.  What about the families that make between $90K and $150K (around the median and above)?  They're not "poor" by any reasonable definition of the term.  And there are three times as many families that make $90K to $150K than $150K to $200K.  So the pool of potential diversity is presumably much bigger too.  But in your world, because they're not "able to afford tuition," they should be shut out in favor of the $200Kers, a much smaller slice of the population with less diversity to offer?[/quote]

Absolutely not! All I meant again (without talking numbers) is that the school wants diversity. Some aid should go to the poor, some to middles class and some to upper middle class (whatever that means to you, I am not sure what that is). The poor should get a higher % of aid than the middle or upper-middle
Class. Any family that cannot reasonably afford full tuition should be considered for aid. Otherwise you will have a school wih very rich and very poor. 
Just my opinion and I think the schools'. It is not just nor fair... it's what's best for the school[/quote]

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