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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who works hard and sacrifices to send 2 kids to private school, it really pisses me off to hearing about your paid off mortgage and 350K inherited stocks and you are asking for financial aid!!! Seriously, OP... WTF??  You are in a better position to pay tuition that most people.[/quote]

OP here. Who says we don't work hard or sacrifice? I specifically said that we are not poor. But we do have a fairly low HHI for the DC area, where many people, especially those who send their children to private schools, have much higher incomes. We know one family in particular who have told us they are receiving financial aid and who live a very flashy lifestyle, all on borrowed money.  We've been told by reliable sources about other families in similar situations who get financial aid from the schools we applied to. Perhaps that's not the whole story, but it does bother me, since these families don't sacrifice anything, and live on borrowed money and handouts from private schools.

And why does my paid off mortgage piss you off? Do you have an iPhone? Do you take nice vacations and eat in expensive restaurants? Do you have nice clothes from nice stores? Do you drive a nice car? I have none of these things, and I've sacrificed a lot of things I enjoy in order to pay off my mortgage. We have no hope of making much money, so we have to save as best we can. I was hoping that some privates might have such large endowments that they have slightly more generous financial aid policies.  I don't see why asking an honest question should bother you so much. If you've got $60K to send two kids to private school, you are doing far better than we are. $60K is half our pre-tax HHI. If we spent that much, we'd go through our savings in five years, and never be able to rebuild our nest egg. We want the best for our kids, but we don't want to sacrifice our future to get it. [/quote]

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