• While signing your contract, you will be asked twice to enter a payment method: first, on the Payment Plan tab to enter a payment method for your ongoing tuition payments and second, on the Deposit tab to enter a payment method for paying your deposit. This enables you to choose different payment methods or you can simply enter the same payment method for both.
• While signing your contract, you will see a blue banner, giving an option to split the payments of the account equally between two individuals. If the preference is a different percentage between the two payers, this can be corrected in your Smart Tuition Account after signing the contract and paying the deposit. Note that the first person signing the contract will be responsible for paying the deposit.
• If you have two students enrolled and wish to have different payment schedules (rare), please select the longer of the two payment installment plans and we will correct it in your Smart Tuition account.

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• What is affluence? It's not the money, it's a value system that is often part of having advantages in life. It's an expectation to be treated and served in a certain way.
• Historically, high status has been shown through houses, cars, and jewelry. Now, we use our children as our status markers. Academy acceptance, college acceptance, AP classes, and extracurriculars are this generation of parents' new indicators of status.
• Historically, families told kids they "can't" pay for [insert expensive activity or object here]. Now, in affluent families parents struggle to say they "won't." Teenagers are showing an increased difficulty in tolerating frustration and being told, NO. (Read The Power of No for more on this topic).
• Oftentimes, for affluent kids, failure is not an option. There is an underlying obligation to do well because mom and dad spent so much money on ____ or because there's so much pressure to perform and have the right outcome/level of achievement as a result. This often results in "burn out" or "opt out" (self-sabotage) scenarios. 
• As a result of well-meaning, but misguided parents, teens have higher rates of anxiety and depression. 
• Nearly 1 in 3 adolescents will meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder by the age of 18.
• By 7th grade, affluent girls are 2x more likely to be depressed than non-affluent girls. In high school, 3x more likely (Read The Price of Privilege for more on this topic)