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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes white families with low income. not white middle income families and believe me we have searched high and low so you name callers give us info prove us wrong!!!!  I am ashamed as a hard working self employeed TAX PAYER I had to google the same question!!! But that reality is a fact!!!! And I need answers[/quote]

White middle income family here, 90k HHI, more than 1 child.  We are receiving generous FA from a "Big (whatever number)" school for DC.  We live in PG County so our mortgage is very low by DCUM standards.  We are frugal, DH and I work opposing shifts so there are no childcare expenses, vacations = camping/hiking trips.  We're happy like that and probably wouldn't live much differently if we weren't paying tuition.  We're grateful for the opportunity for our DC who is thriving and happy at school.  Things are tight even with the FA, but we're making it work, we're incredibly grateful, and I'll be putting in an OT shift and giving those earnings to the annual fund this year.  It will be small potatoes compared to what others can give, but it is important to us to give what we can manage there and invest in the school being able to give other children opportunities. There are absolutely middle class kids of all ethnicities receiving FA at our school and some of the other schools in this area.  I don't know how the schools decide which kids to admit and offer FA to each year, but in our case and the case of a few other families we know with similar SES profiles it didn't have anything to do with race.   We aren't URM in any sense.  The only diversity we bring to the school is we work in fields that don't seem to be represented in the parent population very frequently.  I can't imagine the school cared about that.  So "that reality is a fact" = not so much.  I do want to say that FA does not mean "free ride" for a middle class kid.  In our experience they give right up to the EFC but you have to come up with that money, which is a big big number for us, but again, we make it work. It is not the case that you can only receive aid if you are an URM.  That's an unfair myth people pass off as fact on this board.  It implicitly and unfairly diminishes the value of the kids who happen to be URMs receiving aid; the kids in DC's class who fit that descriptor are very bright and great kids who got in on their own merit.  It also discourages people from applying at all because they think it is a lost cause. [/quote]

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