Anonymous
03/08/2013 23:42
Subject: Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Black Student Fund and Latino Student Fund help students of African-American and Latino heritage, respectively, navigate the private school admissions process. For the Latino Student Fund, for example, they have something called the "Access" program where they offer advice and support on the application and financial aid process. They have relationships with a lot of the independent schools and I believe have helped steer some young children into pre-K/K programs in addition to older children.
The scholarship for the Latino fund is $500 a year. This will hardly put a dent in $25K tuition.
It requires an application and then commitment to attend events during the year.
The Black Student Fund is worse. You literally have to be living in squaller with no lights before you get a nickel from them; and if you're living like that applying to independent schools is the furthest from your mind.
That's not the point. I work in a private school and the value of the BSF and LSF is not in the funds they provide, but in the fact that Private schools looking to keep their non-profit books square use these agencies to supply applicants who will help them to maintain their non-profit status or their voucher fund income.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 23:36
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:Have you ever considered the possibility that she doesn't want her kids to go to a private school? Just because she's a nanny doesn't mean she is not capable of making decisions for her own children.
+100 . I was thinking same thing.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 15:24
Subject: Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Black Student Fund and Latino Student Fund help students of African-American and Latino heritage, respectively, navigate the private school admissions process. For the Latino Student Fund, for example, they have something called the "Access" program where they offer advice and support on the application and financial aid process. They have relationships with a lot of the independent schools and I believe have helped steer some young children into pre-K/K programs in addition to older children.
The scholarship for the Latino fund is $500 a year. This will hardly put a dent in $25K tuition.
It requires an application and then commitment to attend events during the year.
The Black Student Fund is worse. You literally have to be living in squaller with no lights before you get a nickel from them; and if you're living like that applying to independent schools is the furthest from your mind.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 14:18
Subject: Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:The Black Student Fund and Latino Student Fund help students of African-American and Latino heritage, respectively, navigate the private school admissions process. For the Latino Student Fund, for example, they have something called the "Access" program where they offer advice and support on the application and financial aid process. They have relationships with a lot of the independent schools and I believe have helped steer some young children into pre-K/K programs in addition to older children.
The scholarship for the Latino fund is $500 a year. This will hardly put a dent in $25K tuition.
It requires an application and then commitment to attend events during the year.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 14:10
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
The Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys charges NO tuition. It is in SE DC.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 12:53
Subject: Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Depending on where she lives, perhaps she may want to look into the Catholic Academies.
http://www.catholicacademies.org/
They provide an excellent education and while I suspect all parents must pay something into the program, the majority of the cost of the education is paid by the organization's fundraising efforts. I also understand that many of these children end up receiving scholarships to area high schools.
http://www.catholicacademies.org/
They provide an excellent education and while I suspect all parents must pay something into the program, the majority of the cost of the education is paid by the organization's fundraising efforts. I also understand that many of these children end up receiving scholarships to area high schools.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 12:45
Subject: Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
The Black Student Fund and Latino Student Fund help students of African-American and Latino heritage, respectively, navigate the private school admissions process. For the Latino Student Fund, for example, they have something called the "Access" program where they offer advice and support on the application and financial aid process. They have relationships with a lot of the independent schools and I believe have helped steer some young children into pre-K/K programs in addition to older children.
Anonymous
03/08/2013 12:37
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Have you ever considered the possibility that she doesn't want her kids to go to a private school? Just because she's a nanny doesn't mean she is not capable of making decisions for her own children.
Anonymous
02/11/2013 13:01
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you are a combination latino, asian, AA, handicapped and military, it is no problem.
Of the 5 I know someone who has 3 --full scholarship.
That doesn't mean that it was "easy" to obtain, or that that kid didn't get in on the merits of their application.
I know lots of white kids who attend Sidwell, should I assume that Sidwell admissions are easy or automatic for white kids?
Anonymous
02/10/2013 19:21
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
Anonymous wrote:If you are a combination latino, asian, AA, handicapped and military, it is no problem.
Of the 5 I know someone who has 3 --full scholarship.
Anonymous
02/10/2013 17:27
Subject: Re:Can you get a full scholarship for private school?
You can call though and figure out what these boys do first.
Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps one day but San Miguel starts at middle school.
OP, your intentions are great, but I wonder if the initiative is coming from you or your nanny. If she's approaching you that's one thing, but otherwise I wouldn't assume thatptivate school is "better" for her child. There are many things a good public school can offer that are missing in many private schools: economic diversity, support for English Language Learning, a sense of neighborhood community, opportunities for working families to be involved, affordable childcare, curricula that reflect the communities they serve. . .
Large financial aid packages are rare, kids who need them are usually rejected, but even if a famiky gets one private schools aten't an easy choice for a low income family.