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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend by bringing up income. I didn't go to private school (obviously) and I formed that impression of typical class dynamics from a different post on this forum. I'd still value recs for schools with a nerdy, quirky vibe.[/quote]

There’s your mistake.  Don’t form your opinions on much, but particularly class dynamics, from posts on the forum.

[b]At 400k, you will be in the middle 50% of income at every school in the DC area, except *maybe* Madeira and Foxcroft. [/b] You wouldn’t even be the “poorest” full pay boarding family in the NE boarding schools.  And these schools aren’t status symbol obsessed like this board.  It will be the same scene, or maybe slightly improved, as UMC public’s when it comes to material possessions.[/quote]

Not true at the Big3.  We have kids at two of them and we are definitely, 100% in the bottom quartile of income with a HHI of $400K.

So much so that we receive aid.  So clearly the schools themselves agree that we are in their lower income bracket.  I know that people think that the aid famlies at these school are making $75K a year but no, most of us are making $200-400K. 
We are the "poor" (who are not poor by any other standard).

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This is why I no longer want to donate to financial aid fundraisers. Id like my money to go to those who truly struggle rather than middle class families who want all their kids in private.
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Agree. We have one child in private school, HHI of 330k, and don’t apply for financial aid because we are financially responsible enough to juggle tuition now, savings goals for the future, and current expenses. I have no interest in subsidizing the debt payments of people with higher incomes and higher debt burdens than we have but want to live above their means. NMP[/quote]

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