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[quote=Anonymous]We also have four.

If you fill out the financial aid paperwork, at the end it will likely ask you what you would feel comfortable paying. If you feel strongly about this, I would fill it out. We never did because you have to reveal everything about your finances, and since we had a full-time nanny and a part-time housekeeper, I suspected that the school would have expected us to fire them before they gave us aid. We also had substantial savings I wasn't willing to use for school.

In the end, we quit private school. We didn't make quite enough to live the way we wanted to live and pay for it out of pocket, and I didn't feel like it was worth sacrificing for, especially with college at the end of the road.

If a 10-15% discount would have made me feel good about it, though, I would have filled out the paperwork, nanny and all, so that I could make my request.

Despite what everyone is saying here, not only are you a high-pay family with 4 kids, you are a known quantity as a parent. If you are not a PITA, pay your tuition on time, participate in campus life, donate some, etc., etc., they may make the calculation that some small token of a discount is worth what your kids will give back in alumni donations.

The worst that happens is they say no, and you've told them all about your finances.[/quote]

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