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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you bought in the Dunbar cachement. No doubt a larger, cheaper house than if you bought in the JR cachement or in one of the surrounding counties with a solid path from ES through HS. And no doubt knowing Dunbar was unlikely to satisfy. Esp at the time you decided to have a FOURth child.  And now you want other families to pick some of your tab because you like your neighborhood too much to move?

Seems your poor planning shouldn’t be someone else’s issue.

All that said, you are likely to get FA because privates don’t give much to truly poor people.

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Not sure I would classify our 1400 sq ft 2 bedrooom row house just south of FT Totten as “larger and cheaper” than NW, but it fit the budget at the time we bought and I don’t think we could have gotten the same thing over in NW.  We didn’t think about high school, no, but also didn’t plan on a fourth surprise kid due to secondary infertility after adopting siblings, so maybe poor planning, or just what ended up being and we are trying to make the best of it with what we have.

My feeling is we make too much and should not qualify, but maybe we don’t, so no harm in a general inquiry to try to make a more informed decision on what to do moving forward.  We’re not sure the schools would even give us the light of day since we’re not seriously looking yet at the hii of there tuition levels.[/quote]

Yes, you couldn’t have gotten the same space for the same money in a more reliable pyramid so you took a chance and got more house and less school and now want someone else to pay for more school rather than moving. Probably people who chose to have less house and fewer kids so they could afford more school.

Yes, poor planning.

And yes, ask for the money. The schools can just say no. [/quote]

They have a family of 6 in a 2 bedroom house. How much smaller would you like them to get? People on here make no sense sometimes[/quote]
Neither does having so many children with a set amount of resources and already living in a 2 BR.    I would stop donating to the FA fund, as the parent of one, if I was paying for others' tuition since they decided to have a large family.

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I’ve seen this attitude on dcum but I’ve never seen “too many children” listed anywhere as an actual disqualification for aid.  Just about any FA page I’ve come across that I can think of lists number of children as a consideration where more children = more aid.

I also don’t think asking for FA because you have 4 children is ethically different from asking for FA when you have 1.[/quote]

OP has $275K plus an adoption subsidy, medicaid and other things for some of the kids.  Should FA go to OP or a family who is making $100K with 2 kids?  OP can easily pay $150K in school costs and have enough to live off of.  Its all about lifestyle choices.[/quote]

Regarding OP versus your hypothetical family, I wasn’t aware it was an either/or.  The extent of a school’s resources and the number of qualifying applicants is obviously going to vary.  I have seen FA pages reference incomes up to 300k as qualifying under different circumstances, so I don’t think OP is outside the range of normal.  And the question was whether multiple kids would affect aid eligibility.  That at least sounds like a straightforward yes.[/quote]

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