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And stop it with this notion that those making between $75K and $105K are "poor people." 
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Thank you!

I'm the head of household for a family with income in that range.  I would consider our family to be middle class.  All of our needs are met, but there's not a lot left over. I am constantly amazed that people making 300K seem to forget that families like our exist in this area.  They rebrand themselves as "middle class", and everyone else as "the poors".

Our family benefited from 50% aid for preschool.  For elementary school, we applied and were accepted to our first choice private with 0% aid.  The school basically admitted that the acceptance was symbolic.  They knew that they couldn't afford the kind of aid we needed, so they chose not to give any, and instead used their money for other families who needed less.  My kid did well enough in public school that we didn't look into aid for later years.

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Who said that families like yours did not exist? Everyone had a different definition of what being middle class is. Everyone has a different definition of what being comfortable is. I don't what schoo gave you a symbolic offer, but if I had to guess it wasn't not one with a million plus dollar FA endowment. The reality is that schools who don't have that kind of money can't give out substantial awards to more than a few families. You cannot compare FA decisions of schools with limited budgets to those with million dollar endowments.[/quote]

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