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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the fundraising is to go towards financial aid for students who could otherwise afford to go to that school. I think if you can afford to pay $40k out of pocket, you can certainly afford to contribute to the FA fund.[/quote]

But get this (not the OP here, BTW): We don't WANT to contribute to the FA fund.

For the life of me, I will never understand why regular middle class families like ours and OPs, who are already doing a lot by sending our kids to these schools and contributing nominally to the auction, annual fund, etc etc etc, are expected to subsidize OTHER MIDDLE CLASS KIDS (read: NOT low-income or otherwise truly "diverse" kids) simply because some parents are strapped because of their own student loans, or they chose to take (or could only find) jobs that do not pay top dollar.

So there. [/quote]

I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.  No need to subsidize middle class families at the expense of other full pay families (most of which are probably upper middle class).  We contributed a lot to annual fund and other events but we are not going to contribute to FA fund this year (don't plan on going to the scholarship auction either).[/quote]

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