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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poor as in will have to borrow money and eat beans for dinner.[/quote]

If you are that poor you would qualify for a full ride. 
Why would you not take it if offered? [/quote]

I am poor by DCUM standards and I got nada from private schools although my kid was admitted. They basically said I needed too much FA. [/quote]

Sorry, then you are not poor enough.[/quote]

Wrong, they just didn't have the funds to give away, happens more often in the primary years than for high school for instance. [/quote]

They did say to apply again for HS since they have more aid available then. Our HHI is appr. $75K. [/quote]

I would really encourage you to reapply if you still believe the private school hype. 
In a way I feel they are buying superior grades at that level instead of grooming/ producing it themselves. Think hard if you want your child do be used this way, but for free ride maybe. [/quote]

Could you explain what you mean?  By hype do you mean that the education is the same as public school?  [/quote]

Must be a private school hater. Not all private schools are better than public schools and not all public schools are better than private schools. I think my DD school absolutely lives up to the hype and I wouldn't make any other decision about where to send her.[/quote]

Not a private school hater, but these are my observations.  Fwiw, I have two great kids in a top tier private school with some FA. [/quote]

I stand corrected. I misunderstood what you meant by "they buy superior grades instead of producing them themselves." I originally thought the "they" was the parents paying for high grades instead of the kids earning them.

I see your point about them admitting kids who would produce high grades anywhere. However, I think for the child there is something they receive on the benefit end -- smaller classes, schools that encourage self advocacy, the ability to dig deeper into curriculum, the resources to expand the curriculum beyond the basic subject offerings, etc. So while yes, these schools benefit from only teaching already bright kids I think the kids receive a lot in return. For us, we want our DC around other kids whose parents believe in the same philosophy in terms of education. I think that can be a crap shoot in public. We also find that in private we are surrounded by older parents like ourselves. Having kids later in life we always had some concerns their might be some challenges when it came to parenting styles of younger parents. I experienced this as a child myself with older parents. In our DC private school the average age of the parents looks to me about late 30's to early 40's. So all in all it just feels like a good fit environment.[/quote]

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