Anonymous wrote:The FA budget at most schools could be cut in half with no real impact on the families who actually need it.

Please cite a source.

The FA budget at most schools could be cut in half with no real impact on the families who actually need it.

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Anonymous wrote:Just because a food pantry would offer you food doesn’t make it okay to take it. If you really don’t need it, you are an a-hole.

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It is totally against my moral values. Clearly the morality in our country has changed significantly as the population has exploded.

lol, what a hayseed bumpkin thing to say.

It’s such tinfoil hat.

Anonymous wrote:Taking home 200k a year is not rich by DC standards. Obviously it's not poverty, but also not enough to afford a home within an hour's commute, living expenses and $100K in tuition (for 2 kids).

What some people don't get, and most schools understand, is that a community of only the super rich and super poor is not socioeconomic diversity. It benefits everyone to include perspectives and contributions from kids whose parents are federal employees, small business owners and teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeff you should lock this post because you have people questioning the super rich are allowed to get Financial Aid. Of course they should be able to get as much money as anyone else. Rich people have the money so we have the power to take the money from everyone else. It's called economics. Lol!

Leave Jeff out of this.

The HHI limit for FA is quite simply whatever the school wants it to be.

This isn't some Government program with a bunch of rigid guidelines. No one is overseeing the distribution of the funds to ensure that things are "fair".

They consider the applications and then distribute the money and "relative need" is just part of what they consider.

As a result, you have situations where families with high incomes get FA and those with lower ones do not. And they certainly get more than the families that don't apply.

Schools aren't immune to pleas from high earners based on special circumstances. Especially if they have some available money left in the FA budget.

Then there is the matter of "ethics". Today's WSJ has an article describing how large numbers are claiming they are disabled so they can get priority boarding and seating. They board the plane in wheelchairs and at the destination they walk off apparently being miraculously cured during the flight.

Many of us would never consider doing something like this. But there are many who see this as OK behavior. IMO we have more than a few people like this in the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Just because a food pantry would offer you food doesn’t make it okay to take it. If you really don’t need it, you are an a-hole.

+1
It is totally against my moral values. Clearly the morality in our country has changed significantly as the population has exploded.

lol, what a hayseed bumpkin thing to say.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

No. What’s pathetic is you living on this thread and making the same comment over and over. Pathetic or autistic, I’m not sure which.

DP. Your using autistic as an insult is offensive. Stop.

Small-scale swindling is probably the best way to describe it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

“That income.” Again, this is the kind of comment a poor person makes.

No one making $700k, $1 million, or more thinks of $300k or less as “that income.” Wealth is perceived in part based on what a person makes. All of the people acting as if the numbers being used here are super high incomes, or that the math on $50k tuition checks out, are telling on themselves.

Not poor at all. How nice of you to call people poor though.

You are being defensive when people point out your obvious a-hole behavior.

Why does calling your abuse of financial aid strike such a nerve with you?

It doesn’t. I just think it’s weird for people to pretend they are something they aren’t. There are numerous comments where this is made obvious.

I think it’s weird that every time someone provides information that is relevant to OP’s question—which isn’t “abuse” of anything, it’s just explaining what the schools already do—you bring it back to some faux-moralistic argument.

I think it’s weird how many times you’ve done that on this thread (your repeated “a-hole” and “abuse” references give you away).

It’s just extremely weird, maladjusted behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

“That income.” Again, this is the kind of comment a poor person makes.

No one making $700k, $1 million, or more thinks of $300k or less as “that income.” Wealth is perceived in part based on what a person makes. All of the people acting as if the numbers being used here are super high incomes, or that the math on $50k tuition checks out, are telling on themselves.

Not poor at all. How nice of you to call people poor though.

You are being defensive when people point out your obvious a-hole behavior.

Why does calling your abuse of financial aid strike such a nerve with you?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

No. What’s pathetic is you living on this thread and making the same comment over and over. Pathetic or autistic, I’m not sure which.

You are talking to lots of people, love. Consider the possibility they are right.

So you have split personalities as well. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

“That income.” Again, this is the kind of comment a poor person makes.

No one making $700k, $1 million, or more thinks of $300k or less as “that income.” Wealth is perceived in part based on what a person makes. All of the people acting as if the numbers being used here are super high incomes, or that the math on $50k tuition checks out, are telling on themselves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

No. What’s pathetic is you living on this thread and making the same comment over and over. Pathetic or autistic, I’m not sure which.

You are talking to lots of people, love. Consider the possibility they are right.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is new to the schools, don't listen to these posters. Most DMV schools will now give aid up to close to $400K. I know families who get aid with HHI up to $500K.
Apply and see what happens.These posters are not making the aid decisions. If the schools want your kid(s) they will find the aid.

This is the truth. Don’t listen to the poor people here cosplaying as rich full pay families (really bizarre, by the way), or to the people who think they have some moral superiority for being full pay at a cheap Catholic K-8. If you make up to $300k and tuition is over $50k, there is a good chance you’ll get something with one kid and it’s almost a certainty with more than one. Two or three kids and you might even get something up to $400k or more. Also depends on the level of certain taxable assets. You won’t know unless you apply.

Kind of pathetic to have that income and be asking for financial aid, no?

No. What’s pathetic is you living on this thread and making the same comment over and over. Pathetic or autistic, I’m not sure which.