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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The metric is so hard to understand that I am sure many people don't question 33 million vs 300 million.

It might be useful to say something like 95% of DCI kids were accepted to at least one college and among those 70% received scholarships/aid for 50% or more of base tuition. That gives me some sense of what to expect if my kid is a senior there. The total value without context for number of kids or how many kids got multiple offers is meaningless.[/quote]

No school is going to say above.  All schools report their total scholarship money and that includes if a kid got scholarships from mutiple schools. So just 1 kid could get a total of 3-6 million dollars.

BTW, I heard that Banneker, which is much smaller than DCI, got over 100 million in scholarship money so if that is true, I don’t think 300 million is hard to believe.

I would also believe a school website over social media.[/quote]

Ok, this is what the social media said:

"The Class of 2025 brought in $33mil in scholarship money, also a new record— that's an average of $160k per student."

And this is what is repeated actually not on the school website but on the Public Charter Board website:

Last year’s seniors secured more than $300 million in scholarships—yes, million—and celebrated DCI’s very first National Merit Scholarship.

The latter is not true. And they didn't have a 'national merit scholarship," they had their first national merit scholar semifinalist. So I'm inclined to think that whoever wrote this 300 million figure is a little loose with facts. [/quote]

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