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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big difference between the top publics' exmissions and the top privates' exmissions? Family finances. Step out of your bubbles, won't you, and take a look at the realities facing families who aren't already shelling out $35k/year for private school.

Your average two-govt worker family with a household income of $200k faces the following facts: 
- None of the Ivies offers merit aid. None of the Ivies.
- The $200k HHI family won't qualify for any financial aid.
- The $200k HHI family will probably be hard put to pay the full $60k/year Ivy/private university tuition.
- UMD and UVA look like bargains by comparison.
- Early decision boosts your acceptance chances dramatically, but it's a game for families that can lock into a school without waiting to see the financial aid award.

Why you guys can't see this is mystifying. Welcome to the real world.[/quote]

So these average 2-govt.-worker families are living in the Bethesda clusters? Where houses are $1M?[/quote]

They weren't always 1M, when my cousing bought his shack in 1992 for x amount of dollars, I called him crazy. Now he can get upwards of 1.2 for it...[/quote]

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