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[quote=Anonymous]It is unbelievable to me that a family with a HHI of $200k wonders (more like wishing for) if they will qualify for any FA.  Whatever the average income in DC may be, that should still be considered a high income.  Our HHI is $65k and our DC got accepted to a few top private schools in DC, but we ended up staying at public.  Our FA award was 50%.  It's not like the school had a small pool of FA fund; I'm sure they could have offered more to us, but they also have policies to follow.  So if we decided to send our DC to private with that tuition, that leaves us with about $40k to live on.  That's do-able.  But we also had to think about other costs associated with the private school - fundraisers, auction, misc. fees of whatnot.....  Considering all of that, we gave up on private very, very reluctantly.  When I posted this on other thread, I was bashed by other posters saying that why did we even bother applying to private with this kind of income when we know we can't afford the private school; it's not where we belong, go to public, etc.  Gosh, if we made a HHI of $200k, we wouldn't even think of applying to FA.  I wonder what kind of fabulous living these people have.  [/quote]

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