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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools will be increasingly desperate for full pay students - especially those private schools that have $90k+ tuitions.

I say don’t sweat it. [/quote]

Biggest myth on DCUM unless looking at schools beyond the T100.[/quote]

Are you kidding? You’re quite naive. [/quote]

Been through the cycle twice in five years from a highly regarded private.  Every one who isn't full pay on DCUM, and many who are, VASTLY overestimates how much of an advantage it is in admissions.  And VASTLY underestimates how many full pay families there are.

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Being full-pay at a 90k+ a year school is the single greatest advantage there is.

It allows you to apply ED, which has significantly higher admission rates.

If you attend a highly affluent public or private school, you likely feed to expensive privates like Boston College, Wake Forest, USC, NYU, Tulane, Wash U, Emory….

Schools like Vanderbilt, Duke, ND, and LACs are filled to the brim with private school and affluent kids.

And, back to OP’s question, it’s only going to be more important. Families are increasingly choosing public flagships to save money, which means those private schools are in a dog race to attract full pay students.

I don’t mean to imply that if you’re full pay you will be admitted over a classmate who isn’t. But schools know who to recruit and they will increasingly do so.[/quote]

Ivy/T10 want the percent of full pay lower and lower. Most ivies are already at 55-60% on need baased aid, meaning full pay is down to 40-45%. Full pay was 55% at ivies just 7 years ago. With the new donations and expanding aid highlighted by a few of the ivies and MIT lately, the chase for applicants who need a little need based aid (ie under 300k household income) is on. The endowment tax is a big deal. Navigating how to avoid it is priority. Duke and Chicago are expanding aid as they are able to get closer to what the most generous schools offer(Princeton, Penn, Harvard, Yale, MIT) which is free tuition up to 200 or 250kHHI, rapidly increased Questbridge acceptances which are guaranteed aided and preselected, and the brand new trend of offering some smaller tuition breaks to the 300k HHI range.

You have to go a big step down to get to the point where full pay helps, ie Wake forest and similar, T30-40 range. Vanderbilt and WashU it may help a little as they are newer to need blind, and Vandy in particular targets full pay for the waitlist and fullpay for the 200 sophomore transfers tehy take each year.

Only a fool thinks full pay helps at the very top. It does not. There are far too many willing to pay. It has become a slight negative with the endowment tax issue and will get worse next cycle as more schools do the math.[/quote]

Sigh…I wish people would stop focusing on “ivies” - it’s extremely narrow, almost obsessive thinking.

I am the poster you responded to, and I wasn’t even talking about Ivies, and yet you responded, talking about “ivies.”

And btw, even with the Ivies…go check out where students from top private schools in the US are attending, you will see many Ivy and Ivy adjacents on their list.  I think you’re a fool for thinking it doesn’t matter. [/quote]

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