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Agree with this 100%.  I know we all like to think that our AF dollars are going to some poor but brilliant kid from SE. I work with the poor on a daily basis as a youth case manager.  99.9% of these families have no interest in having their kid attend Sidwell with a cohort of mainly high achieving (and almost uniformly wealthy including some staggeringly so) white and Asian kids.  As in, that a worst nightmare scenario in their minds.  Also, how do they get their kid to school on a daily basis? how do they support their kid in this type of environment when they themselves have a 9th grade education (which an incredibly large percentage of the poor in DC do)?  Is is so much more complex than tossing a 95% aid package their way.  [/quote]

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I would assume URM families who are college educated but are making less than 250k a year are the families who are looking at Sidwell and are hoping for some significant help. I agree wholeheartedy that the "Blind Side" narrative is at best 1-2 kids a year at schools like Sidwell. The "poor kids" are truly middle class kids of humanity majors.[/quote]

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