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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd agree that WJ might be the best fit.  (Or the new Woodward, depending on your timetable.)

FWIW, we are fine financially, but certainly not uber wealthy.  We don't take fancy vacations every year or have a tesla.  And my kids are fine at Churchill.  They talk a lot about the extravagant wealth of some who show it off but more like it's a curiosity.  Actually, one of the kids pushed hard freshman year for us to update our kitchen to match her friends' fancy kitchens, but by sophomore she was resolved to our lifestyle.  The other kids have never said a word that sounds like wealth jealousy.

[b]Interestingly, I later learned that several of the kids with fancy kitchens got financial aid for college, so they weren't uber wealthy, either![/b]
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Because your primary residence doesn't count for calculating assets for financial aid. Now is the time to do that renovation, so the extra cash doesn't show up on the CSS. Or you can invest in art/collectibles/etc... It has to be done a certain number of years before the college application process.

But the other way to think about it is whether you want to give your kid a boost for need-aware schools by not filling out financial aid forms in the first place...

Such are the trials and tribulations of upper middle class families ;-)
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