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Anonymous wrote:It gets easier when you realize you’re not alone.

In real life, I don’t think I know any dual feds with 2+ kids who have sent them to full-pay privates in the last 10-12 years. Many of the parents went to those schools. But to send their kids there is just irrational.

The kids who are going to those schools from the DMV are richer or poorer, or they have some kind of special circumstances: family money, a parent who works at a university that has some kind of tuition benefit, etc.

The private schools are full of dual fed kids.

Dual fed households ate in the top invome brackets in the country.

Just because they are not as rich as elon or the pelosis does not mean that they are not wealthy.

The private schools where so many kids are on family money that the schools host an annual “grandparents day”? Yeah, they’re not doing it on the parents’ fed salaries.

Maybe not the $55-60k schools, but very definitely the $35-40k ones.

Anonymous wrote:Dual-fed family here and we definitely don't make what is being bandied about here. Also, it's not like we started out where we are now with decades of a high salary.

Anonymous wrote:Not uber wealthy and Full pay is a total rip off and annoying but we are still going to do it and we are grateful for our situation.

Dual income household- We earn and we save and now we will have to pay full price.

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Anonymous wrote:It gets easier when you realize you’re not alone.

In real life, I don’t think I know any dual feds with 2+ kids who have sent them to full-pay privates in the last 10-12 years. Many of the parents went to those schools. But to send their kids there is just irrational.

The kids who are going to those schools from the DMV are richer or poorer, or they have some kind of special circumstances: family money, a parent who works at a university that has some kind of tuition benefit, etc.

The private schools are full of dual fed kids.

Dual fed households ate in the top invome brackets in the country.

Just because they are not as rich as elon or the pelosis does not mean that they are not wealthy.

The private schools where so many kids are on family money that the schools host an annual “grandparents day”? Yeah, they’re not doing it on the parents’ fed salaries.

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Anonymous wrote:It gets easier when you realize you’re not alone.

In real life, I don’t think I know any dual feds with 2+ kids who have sent them to full-pay privates in the last 10-12 years. Many of the parents went to those schools. But to send their kids there is just irrational.

The kids who are going to those schools from the DMV are richer or poorer, or they have some kind of special circumstances: family money, a parent who works at a university that has some kind of tuition benefit, etc.

The private schools are full of dual fed kids.

Dual fed households ate in the top invome brackets in the country.

Just because they are not as rich as elon or the pelosis does not mean that they are not wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:It gets easier when you realize you’re not alone.

In real life, I don’t think I know any dual feds with 2+ kids who have sent them to full-pay privates in the last 10-12 years. Many of the parents went to those schools. But to send their kids there is just irrational.

The kids who are going to those schools from the DMV are richer or poorer, or they have some kind of special circumstances: family money, a parent who works at a university that has some kind of tuition benefit, etc.

The private schools are full of dual fed kids.

Dual fed households ate in the top invome brackets in the country.

Just because they are not as rich as elon or the pelosis does not mean that they are not wealthy.

Anonymous wrote:It gets easier when you realize you’re not alone.

In real life, I don’t think I know any dual feds with 2+ kids who have sent them to full-pay privates in the last 10-12 years. Many of the parents went to those schools. But to send their kids there is just irrational.

The kids who are going to those schools from the DMV are richer or poorer, or they have some kind of special circumstances: family money, a parent who works at a university that has some kind of tuition benefit, etc.

Anonymous wrote:The political capitalist system is set up to get us peasants fighting with each other so we ignore the insane grift that’s happened around rising tuition and student loan programs.

Just like it wants working class people to hate on immigrants and welfare recipients.

The donut hole families are realizing their full pay tuition bill is subsidizing able-bodied parents who choose to stay at home when their kids are self sufficient teenagers. It’s not really the fault of those SAHMs, but the donut holers need some outlet for their frustration because costs are so out of line with the economy.

We’re told not to complain that we can’t afford to send our kids to places our parents were able to afford, like BC. Meanwhile, there’s a kid whining on Reddit right now that they were matched to Boston College on Questbridge and not Harvard.

The system will make you crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of maddening when you are full pay at colleges and your kid's roommates get substantial aid and live much nicer lives than your DC kids do.

I have 2 in college and we are full pay all around with a DC income of $400K. My kids' middle America roommates are both (fr and soph) on 50%+ aid but have cars on campus, much fancier clothing, have all sorts of spending money for eating off campus. My kids have never owned a car, eat in the dining hall full time, etc.

There is something to be said for living in a LCOL area and making under $200K. You go to college for free or at half cost but still have the same lifestyle outside of school as those of us making almost twice the income in a HCOL town.

They could have a bunch of credit card debt, you don’t know their situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the 2 fed, full pay club, OP!

+100

But there is a huge amount of variety based on GS-level and step…

2 50-year old GS-14/step 10 would have a combined income of $440k, if that maxed out production each year.

I am a $220k/year Fed myself- even on my own my kid wouldn’t qualify.

I don’t understand this math. GS 14s don’t make 220k

I do. Base pay $195k as GS-14, Step 10. We get quarterly bonuses based on production. Another 15-20k for hardest work.

Anonymous wrote:I have a kid at School Without Walls and Wisconsin, Michigan and Maryland are popular destinations for full pay kids. There are lots of Questbridge and Posse scholars going to great schools, and a very small handful of full pay going to the likes of Tufts, Dartmouth, etc.

I’m still amazed though when you raise the systemic problem that so many top schools are only for the very wealthy and the poor today that you’re labeled a whiner. How is that good for those institutions and for society?