Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by DAD22
If you got a $9000 voucher to help pay for a $16000 school, then it would only cost you $7000.

This sounds good, except that most private schools will just turn right around and raise their tuition by $9000.

Being unaffordable is kinda the point of many private schools. If they were affordable, then anyone could go there. <shudder>

Given that most elite privates have admissions percentages around 10%, and could probably double their rates as a result, I cannot agree with this.

The Tier 1 privates in the DFW area actively recruit among the poor and minority communities with over 1/3 of their student bodies coming from the bottom quartile economically.

They also do not accept many bright kids whose parents have tons of money.