<p>Wow,</p>
<p>Parents and students needing FA are slackers. Hmm. You’ve succeeded in insulting an awful lot of parents on the board. And since a lot of schools are looking at sliding scale for middle class, if you’re a full pay you are either:</p>
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<li>not upper middle class - but in the top 1% of the country.</li>
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<p>or </p>
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<li>they didn’t really want your child (based on astute decision of your child’s first choice school, and the fact that other similarly situated familes are getting FA at many of the GLADCHEMMS) but wanted/needed the revenue from your tuition dollars which you are only to willing to part with (then whine about). Your child is a source of revenue in a bad economy, I suspect.</li>
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<p>Both are pretty likely from the bread crumbs you’re dropping like the fact that your child rejected at Andover - your stated “top choice.” $50K is well above the tuition for Exeter and SPS so it’s likely not one of those (although both were gravitating towards full pays this year). He was enrolled in only one honors class at “unnamed fictitious school” instead of all the ones he wanted implying he wasn’t academically ready, and you resent having to pay for the “kool-aid” with no proof of return on investment (your words).</p>
<p>BTW - since when is a child’s education measured in ROI?</p>
<p>You have one daughter looking for examples of a winning essay but she - at that time, also indicated she didn’t get into to ANY schools and was pleading for help with admissions making me think he/she is the same kid. You’ve worked weekends for 12 years to pay for boarding school when only one kid is in school now (ummm - how many kids are you trying to put through BS?)</p>
<p>This is all fascinating but it fails as a cohesive narrative.</p>
<p>Still, you’re insulting a lot of parents on this board who I’ve come to know and love offline. Parents whose kids are actually in honors classes, and sports teams (without parent pushing the issue) and their admittance (since they are of all races and cultures) has nothing to do with hooks. They were just better than yours. Case closed.</p>
<p>But good luck with that Ivy League dream you said was your ultimate goal in previous threads. I think they’ll see you and your progeny coming from a mile away and I don’t foretell a good outcome for your child if you act this way when he’s applying to college.</p>