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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh not to say that it is easy, or that a family with 120k will receive a lot of aid unless multiple siblings are in college at the same time...just that on this board it seems to be either the poors will their full rides or full pay.  In reality there is a lot of in between, and a lot of people who finance college through a combination of savings and financial aid--some of which are loans.  At least people with professional parents who are financially savvy will be able to guide them through this process and figure out which have the best interest rates/how to consolidate.[/quote]

Sorry, but it sounds like you're saying that MoCo public school families, all those government workers' kids, have the exact same budget for Ivies as private school families, once you take all that super-generous grant aid into account. That can't be what you meant. There's still no way that $200k HHI families are going to find it easy to pay $60k for the first kid (because $200k and one kid won't get FA) and can expect to finance the second kid through 100% grant aid because DC#2 will definitely get into Harvard. There is a whole middle class that attends public schools and is only modestly present in private schools, and your casual references to FA and grant aid if your kid gets into Harvard show how oblivious you are about the very real financial decisions that these very real people face when considering applying to an Ivy. That's the point.[/quote]

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