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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most colleges have tuition exchange.  So if you work at a college/university -- there is a good chance that wherever your kid goes -- he/she will get 25K off yearly tuition --  or sometimes more through the exchange.  It's not really an exchange -- that's just what it is called

I have a friend who used this for all three kids -- different colleges - different amounts.[/quote]

This is being phased out. Georgetown for example has made its plan way less generous.[/quote]

No, 100s of colleges participate. My kid has free tuition at a school parents here would excoriate.

There are more schools than Georgetown.

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I think PP is responding because there have been false posts regarding Georgetown (whom I agree is definitely NOT generous).[/quote]

I work at Georgetown. There tuition assistance program is not as generous as it once was, but it's still pretty good: if your kids go to Georgetown, the school pays 2/3 off tuition; if your kids go anywhere else, you get the equivalent of 1/3 of Georgetown tuition (today, that's about $21k/year). I have two kids, which means I will get $160k toward college for them from Georgetown. Not bad![/quote]

OP is asking about being admitted, first and foremost.  None of that applies if you are not first admitted to college.  Plus, there are so many assumptions, here on DCUM, that working at a college is an automatic admit.  It is not.  Speaking from experience at Georgetown, I can tell you that most of the people I know, whose children apply, do NOT get admitted. And the benefits you listed only apply after a certain number of years. [/quote]

Try clicking the button that shows prior posts. I was responding to chain of comments about tuition assistance that referenced Georgetown’s plan.

And I know many staff members whose kids have applied and gotten in, including a close co-worker last year. It’s certainly not an automatic admit, but it is an advantage. Faculty/staff children are treated like legacies.[/quote]

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