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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't possibly think that a family with two kids and HHI of 150 can afford 80k in tuition. They will never be able to afford it in DC. With no financial aid, they will not attend private school... I am not sure it's fair and I am not sure it makes for a diverse student body.[/quote]
Please tell me how students from a family in the top 20 percent income-wise, makes the student body that's already full of upper-class families more "diverse."

If you or the schools are genuinely interested in more socioeconomic diversity, you'd be showing more interest in giving more financial aid such that those families that are legitimately middle-class -- let's say the middle 30 to 40 percent of HHIs -- could attend.  That would actually make the student body more diverse. [/quote]

Only the FA officers at the school know what the middle 30-40% of their accepted applicants HHIs are.  It could very well be that $150-200 IS the middle 30-40% of accepted applicants.  The comparative pool is not the nation or even the DC area, the comparative pool is accepted applicants.[/quote]

Not really, because FA only knows about the HHIs of those who apply for aid.  So they have no idea how much families who don't apply for aid -- for all kinds of reasons -- are making.  That's part of my problem with FA -- maybe if FA offices knew that there are lots of families who are making do and paying full tuition, they wouldn't give FA to the SAHM who plays tennis every day (or whatever). [/quote]

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