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[quote=Anonymous]Just know that you will be among the poor people at the privates on your income (anything under $500K with two full-pay tuitions).

I realize this sounds ridiculous but it really, really, really is true.  At these schools you have the financial aid families (who generally don't have a large social presence at the school as they are working, live further out, etc) and then the average incomes jumps to about $800K, easily.

Your entire social world will have more money than you do and will be living in homes, driving cars and vacationing to places that you can't afford.

I am not a materialistic person but I'm glad I didn't have to be immersed in this world for 13 years.  We switched our kids for high school and they are okay with it but it rears it's head up in big and small ways.  There are other kids who are never completely comfortable with it.

We came from public and are so incredibly glad that we still have our public school friends as they understand our world view, our budget, our upbringings, etc.  It's hard to explain fully but almost everything in life is different if you are living off $400K (which again is an incredibly good salary) or $2 million.  [/quote]

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