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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't most financial aid for schools like Potomac (with a high school) reserved for high school (or at least middle school) students to bump up diversity or recruit a talented athlete or scholar?  Would financial aid be given to say, a Pre-K or K applicant unless the applicant was from an unrepresented minority group?[/quote]

Yes, most financial aid in the privates is reserved for minority candidates so the school can boost its diversity claims.  In some schools, the auction proceeds go into the same pool.  [/quote]

I'm the middle income parent of a URM child (actual middle income, slightly below the area median).  My kid was turned away at several private schools, who told me outright that they didn't like to accept kids who would take "too much" financial aid.  He was accepted at others without aid.  In the meantime, I know a number of white families who did not bring diversity whose kids got partial aid.

My guess is that you think that most of the aid is going to URMs, because it never occurs to you to question whether that Bethesda/McLean mom next to you is getting any.  [/quote]

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