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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality at the BIg3 is that about 1/2 the kids are on aid.  DCUM likes to joke that it's all the country club set but it's also a lot of financially vulnerable but hard working kids that you're laughing at. [/quote]

Someone being "on aid" doesn't mean they are financially vulnerable--just that 50k/yr for K-12 is a big expense for even UMC.

And if they truly are financially vulnerable, those are the kids that are getting in to some of their top choices.[/quote]

I’m the PP who referred to aid and I would never call myself financially vulnerable. There are families at the school who are financially vulnerable and I would not insult them by pretending I am one of them. We get a small amount of aid, not a lot, but it makes the school hard but possible rather than impossible. 
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By and large these are rich people schools. Very few, if any, families who would qualify for FARMs if their kids were attending a public school, and barely an students who will be first-generation college applicants.[/quote]

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