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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As always, this board is very unhelpful when it comes to boarding schools. There is a very good, moderated boarding school board at college confidential that has been very helpful.[/quote]

Many are bitter they can’t afford the tuition and feel threatened by boarding school seniors taking their public and private day school children’s college slots. [/quote]

It can't be that...Exeter and Deerfield have some of the most generous FA of any school, including every college.  At Deerfield, you don't pay any more than 10% of your income.  I don't think any college as an example would give FA to a family making $500k, yet Deerfield caps you at $50k tuition.[/quote]

Even though they are generous with FA, it is still a large expense for upper middle class families. They’re not giving up an annual ski or beach vacation for boarding school unless they really prize education. They’d rather send them to MoCo schools. [/quote]

NP. Illogical conclusion. Does not boost your attempt to argue that you got a superior education at your boarding school. [/quote]

Parents making 250k in the DMV don’t send their children to boarding school. Students from the DMV have rich parents or are from the inner city and use pipeline programs. People making 250k don’t get enough aid to avoid making sacrifices they don’t view as worth it. Enjoy Walt Whitman![/quote]

This doesn’t make much sense.  Again, it would only cost them $25k to send them to these top boarding schools if accepted.

I bet any family considering private or boarding school at that income would be ecstatic to know that they could attend Andover for probably much less than any DMV private school.

I literally know a DC family probably around that income sending their kid to a boarding school because it ended up as such a good deal for them.  That said…the kid was the one pushing to explore boarding schools.[/quote]

“Only cost 25k” say goodbye to both your trips to Park City and Hilton Head. There’s a reason not many families making 150-500k go to boarding school, and it’s not only a question of having family on the board like OP. 25k is an enormous sacrifice for them and they probably wouldn’t go to st albans or GDS either. [/quote]

Any DC family that made $250 k and could get their kid into an elite boarding school for $25k/year would jump all over that deal and never look back. That’s half the top private schools in DC and not a lot more than a Catholic school that many middle class families attend. Deal of the century. Not sure why you’re so fixated on the idea that a $250k family wouldn’t attend private schools [/quote]

They wouldn’t. They don’t apply. You’re on DCUM, you’re already more invested than most of your similarly situated peers. Most don’t care if they go to Walt Whitman then a bad SEC school. They’re too busy eating cheese dip on football Sundays. [/quote]

There is a family on our block that sends one kid to Choate and one to DCPS (that kid is very young).

I assume the DCPS kid will probably go private by middle school.

I have no idea of their financial situation other than they can’t be dirt poor.[/quote]

Probably quietly rich. Like many prep school families. [/quote]

Maybe…but I don’t know of any “quietly rich” or “loudly rich” families spending one minute in DCPS for any of their kids.[/quote]

Many quietly do. I’m sure you live in NW. [/quote]

That’s absurd.  “Many” rich families don’t send their kids to DCPS.  Some may do so.[/quote]

several hundred do at any given moment. Go play bridge at Congo or Columbia and see where the grandchildren are going to school [/quote]

WTF are you talking about?  I don't know Congo or Columbia, but I know at CC Club absolutely nobody's grandchildren are attending DCPS.
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Hence why I didn’t say CC….[/quote]

Sure...but the grandparents at Congressional have lots of grandkids at DCPS (and I would assume MCPS too).  This is silly and you know it.[/quote]

Very different clubs [/quote]

Still just as silly as a comment.  Only club around here where I ever hear of families with DCPS kids is Kenwood but that's a much lower membership fee and anyone can join that pays the fee.[/quote]

Kenwood?  They have to rub elbows with the poors?  I am shocked and chagrined.  Disgusting![/quote]

Exactly. There are plenty of families in DCPS who can easily afford private school and decide not to. I find it amusing this poster criticized differentiating between clubs and then did so immediately after. Sad![/quote]

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