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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More and more schools are trying to craft FA models that seek to spread the FA dollars along the full spectrum of families - some poor, some middle class (however you want to define that, but let's just say it is the families in an area like DC where HHIs in the $200k to $300k range are not super rich), some really rich.[/quote]
Herein lies my problem with some of the posts in this thread.  Not being rich or super-rich doesn't automatically make you middle class!  You can be upper class, but not rich.  Why is being upper class so hard for some people to own?[/quote]

I wrote the first statement here and I use middle class as a short hand for the middle income set in terms of looking at financial aid.  I agree with your larger point that what people in this area tend to think of as a middle class is really wealthy by most any measure.  Your point does highlight, a little, my larger point, which is that some of the venom in threads like these is that so many of us come at these issues with different language to describe ranges of income and socio-economic status.  [/quote]

What irks me about these type of posts is when people who make so much money and have assets they won't or "can't" touch think they are somehow entitled to FA. I see that if you are new to private schools, you wouldn't understand that schools get their financial aid funds from other parents. [/quote]

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