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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you may have addressed this but I don’t have time to read all the comments. Are your kids still young enough for you to move/rent in Virginia and meet the residency requirement? That would open up so many more options for you.[/quote]
Virginians always say this but it really doesn’t help.

OP’s primary concern is with the cost of private schools, which are no less expensive from Virginia.

As for state schools, moving to Virginia makes almost all of them more expensive, not less, because you lose TAG.

As for Virginia schools, most are no more expensive from DC than from Virginia, after merit and TAG.

Moving to Virginia for colleges only really makes sense if you are planning to send your child to UVA or W&M. Which of course is why high school in NoVa can get so cutthroat.

(There are plenty of other excellent reasons to live in the beautiful state of Virginia, but if those reasons were compelling to OP, they’d already live there.)[/quote]

All wrong:
1) OP never says private only.
2) OP needs to look at in-state options including guaranteed transfer programs from schools like Virginia Community colleges to four year publics. That’s affordable.
3) TAG is worth only $10,000. Most privates are running $93k a year. TAG makes that amount $83k. UVA and the other in-states are around $40K = a $43k year savings. Invest the difference, if you have it, and you can help with grad school.
4) if OP rents or moves now they will meet the VA residency requirement. Or MD (but fewer options in MD).
5) from VA, OP can apply to public and also then start chasing merit money at privates throughout America. You aren’t confined to privates only in VA (strange assumption).

But you must start planning now.[/quote]
I don’t think you understand this situation at all.

Why are you taking $10,000 off the price of private schools and attributing it to DC TAG? That’s not how DC TAG works.

What do Virginia privates have to do with anything? It doesn’t matter where private schools are located.

And the key question: Why do you assume DC residents can’t find public schools to attend in the $40k range, if that’s what we want? I am personally sitting on two offers of $40k/year or less (after merit but without even taking DC TAG into consideration), both at public schools not located in Virginia.[/quote]

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