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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean that means 33% of the student body is still paying over $80,000 a year. I’d say in my friend group only 20% of families could afford to send their kids to a Princeton priced school full pay and everyone went to college/most to grad school.[/quote]

What percentage of that 33% is extremely wealthy?  I bet it's extremely high.

This kind of barbell demographics (poor and super rich) make for some really weird social dynamics.  My kids attend a DC private and it's a microcosm of this: you have financial aid kids and extremely wealthy kids and very, very few in between.  Almost no one is the child of two feds or a doctor and a teacher.  They'e either the kid of a single parent or a CEO.  And as much as the high school wishes the two groups would mix, they rarely become more than superficial friends.

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There are a ton of doctors with kids at private schools.  There are also a number of kids with teacher parents, nearly all of whom work at a private school.[/quote]

You are missing my point.  When I said doctor/teacher family I was thinking pediatrician or family medicine.  I was equating this family with a family of two feds: decent salaries but not extremely wealthy.

My point again is, my kids attend a DC private.  The school has the financial aid kids and the unmistakably rich (children of VIPs and CEOs) and very, very, very who are in between.  My family is in between (we're 2 feds) and there are about 2 others like us in my kids' entire grade.  It's not an ideal social dynamic. It gets weird and the two groups don't really mix at any sort of deep level.   [/quote]

I’m not missing the point, your argument is flawed.  Most privates have vey few kids who are on full scholarship.  Most aid goes to upper middle class families like yours.[/quote]

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