Feeling Guilty About Financial Aid

[GMTplus7]

<p>@ TrinitySeven

much has been written on this board about many schools not having enough FP Americans, so they are taking a lot of foreign/asian students. I know in my town, most the affluent people (which is, in fact, most of the households in the town) send their kids to public schools because, I suspect, they themselves went to public schools and it really never crosses their mind to consider private schools and if it did, they think the public schools are good enough

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<p>The prestigious boarding schools certainly do NOT need ANY foreign students to make up for the lack of FP domestic students. It is the lesser known college preparatory schools and the therapeutic boarding schools that need to admit rich foreign kids, not the boarding schools most mentioned in this forum. </p>

<p>If you read that infamous Bloomberg article about BS recruiting FP foreign kids to fill a budget gap, it was about Marvelwood School, a therapeutic boarding school, not a selective college preparatory boarding school, like Milton or Middlesex. There was a NYT article on the same issue of how colleges are recruiting FP rich kids from China. The college mentioned in the article was University of Delaware, not Dartmouth or Duke. So you don’t need to lose sleep over princelings from China.</p>

<p>In general, the fatter the school’s endowment, the fewer the int’l students. </p>

<p>As for affluent folk in your town opting to send their kids to the local public school, it likely has more to do with the fact that they have the option to send their kids to a high-quality public school that are “good enough”, than because of ideology about public v. private schooling. Towns tend to be less socio-economically checkerboarded than cities— you do not find the extremes of welfare families living within spitting distance of the 1%. As more uniformly affluent neighborhoods in towns have a fat tax base, they tend to have higher quality public schools. In cities with extreme income disparities, the affluent may pay the bulk of the property taxes, but they do not send their kids to the local public school if the school is not a selective one. </p>

<p>I don’t understand your negativity. On Oldmacdonald’s thread you moan that American schools should be for Americans, and you decry the millions of kids from Asia descending on boarding schools and colleges like locusts. Now you moan about receiving FA and how great your town’s public schools are. If your local public school is so great and free, you have hangups about FA, and you disdain foreigners, then why are you bothering to consider boarding school?</p>

[NYCMomof3]

<p>GMTplus7 wrote…“As for affluent folk in your town opting to send their kids to the local public school, it likely has more to do with the fact that they have the option to send their kids to a high-quality public school that are “good enough”, than because of ideology about public v. private schooling. Towns tend to be less socio-economically checkerboarded than cities— you do not find the extremes of welfare families living within spitting distance of the 1%. As more uniformly affluent neighborhoods in towns have a fat tax base, they tend to have higher quality public schools. In cities with extreme income disparities, the affluent may pay the bulk of the property taxes, but they do not send their kids to the local public school if the school is not a selective one.”</p>

<p>This is spot on with my experience here in NYC and the suburbs</p>

<p>Btw I tried putting it in quote box but couldn’t figure out how to do it :)</p>

[neatoburrito]

<p>NYCmom, to do the quote thing:</p>

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<p>But when you do it , leave the pi symbol out. I put it in so that it wouldn’t actually quote.</p>

[NYCMomof3]

<p>Thanks Neatoburrito</p>

[ChoatieMom]

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