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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exactly what I have been saying.

Hard working tax paying middle class should be rewarded not punished for the society and country to be healthy.

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Implying that low-income families aren’t hardworking or taxpaying.[/quote]

I didn't say that, but middle class is surely getting punished.

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Real middle class are getting financial aid.  You mean wealthy DCUM middle class who live in million dollar homes and choose not to save and yet demand their kids go to the most expensive schools.  The rest of us, who are real middle class live within our means, or under our means to save for state school.[/quote]

I think my family is real middle class. 4 kids, $110k combined income. DD got $0 in financial aid.[/quote]

We have $300K combined income. 3 kids.  two of them are twins.
[b]We got substantial discount for having multiple kids in colleges at the same time. [/b]
(doesn't need to be the same college) 
I think it's called sibling discount.   Public schools don't offer this. 
See if you can take advantage of this.

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FAFSA was 'reformed' to remove that discount [/quote]

I am not sure this is correct.  I thought the aid calculator does factor in more than one college tuition paid in the same year.[/quote]

"Starting with the 2024–2025 academic year, the discount currently available under the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to families with multiple enrolled children disappears, a byproduct of new legislation that seeks to simplify the form that determines financial aid eligibility.

Per the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, parents and students will use the new FAFSA form beginning in October 2023. The simplified FAFSA was originally scheduled to roll out beginning with the 2024–2025 academic year, but was delayed one year by the Department of Education."
https://blog.massmutual.com/post/college-fafsa-changes-siblings[/quote]

Ok.  Starts in October 2023.[/quote]

Last year and the year before we got zero discount from the publics - UVA, VT, UF
Got discounts from privates comparable to UVA instate tuition - Notre Dame, USC, Northeastern

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At what income level?  What is your expected contribution for each student?[/quote]

$300K combined.  
We obviously got multi-kid discounts from the privaites, but nothing form the publics for the past two years.[/quote]

What are they expecting you to contribute per student?[/quote]

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