<p>Any news as to Canadians and FA? We are also looking at Groton....</p>
<p>My own experience is that FA is extremely difficult to get for canadians at Groton and they are quite frank about this on their website. (see below) I wouldn't hold my breath. Look at St. Paul's</p>
<p>Q.Does Groton award financial aid to students from foreign countries?
A. Generally no, but in rare cases it may make an exception if there are unusual circumstances that merit such a grant. As in all applications for financial aid, the applicant must document financial need.</p>
<p>Okay, so, I talked to the powers to be in admissions and they basically said that they look at Canadians for aid but they give out the aid first to american citizens, based on need of course, if there is any FA left then they will give some of it to the accepted canadians.
It is not impossible to get aid. Especially if they want you at the school (which they do want hockey players!!) and you have a great need for it. I would however apply to st. paul's it's a great school!!</p>
<p>neprepgoer:Thanks so much for going out of your way to so that! =]</p>
<p>Winterset: thanks, I am definitly checking out St Paul's.</p>
<p>paleozoic: Thanks! I am also very concerned about my grades. I am working very hard lately and my marks have been very good. I need to concentrate on keeping them high and also raising my math mark. Do you have any other suggestions about ways to be more desirable to schools? Should I join more ec's?</p>
<p>I called Groton again this morning and they informed me under no circumstance would I be able to recieve financial aid. I also called St.Paul's. They seemed very good, and they answered all of my questions and the woman also asked me questions and such. I was already planning on applying to St.Paul's, but if they are alot like Groton then that is all the more positive. As per ssat's, I'm planning on taking it once in December and then again in January which seems alright with the schools. I want to take it twice because it's quite possible nerves will get the best of me the first time.</p>
<p>Also, I was wondering if anyone had any information on good Canadian schools? I'm planning on apply to Brentwood, in British Columbia and King's Edgehill in Nova Scotia, but I will certainly accept any other suggestions!</p>
<p>groton is known as the school in which butlers would screw the lightbulb in for them (haha, where IS that post anyways? i loved reading it XD) so financial aid wouldn't be easy. </p>
<p>groton girl, hope to see you next year at some tsao :P (= you and i both get into VERRRRY GOOD SCHOOLS :) )</p>
<p>westcoast_ and to everyone else on this forum</p>
<p>That may have been the way things were a long time ago at Groton but things have changed. Groton has one of the largest endowments in the country and now offer FREE TUITION to anyone whose family makes less that 75,000 a year. They also pay for faculty children to go to either groton or any other prep school. Over 30% of the school is on FA and I personally know a VERY SMALL amount of "spoiled rotten rich kids"
In my dorm of 14 I know of 8 that are on more than 25% FA. I don't think those kids have butlers.</p>
<p>Please do not judge a school based on something that is so trivial, especially on this forum when people are looking for your opinions, it might turn them off of a school that is perfect for them</p>
<p>NEprepgoer, you know i was joking right LOL</p>
<p>i love groton, groton is my #1 school right now so muhaha :P</p>
<p>EDIT: found it.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/463438-school-stereotypes.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/463438-school-stereotypes.html</a></p>
<p>West coast-
totally understand, it's just that a lot of people think of groton as a stuck up snobby school and it is not</p>
<p>I am not suprised by the response you got from Groton.<br>
despite being superficially very similar ( brilliant humanities programmes, very beautiful chapels) Groton and St. Paul's are quite different schools. Groton always struck me as a version of Winchester in England whose motto is "Learn, leave or be beaten" while St. Paul's is a kinder and to me more humane place.</p>
<p>I would suggest that on purely financial grounds you write off Groton and Exeter and concentrate on schools where you have a reasonable chance of getting in and getting money. At the top end of the American system this leaves only St. paul's and perhaps Peddy and in the less well known schools Shattuck-St.Mary's ( a St. paul's knock off in Minnesota) and St. Andrews Sewanee. All these places would be much better than any Canadian public school I know about except perhaps University of Toronto Schools which unfortunately is a day school. You could of course do IB at your current school and try for Lester B Pearson College of the pacific which is on Vancouver Island and starts in Grade 11. Advantage , it is free. Lakefield College school in Ontario was good enough for Prince Andrew so it is probably good enough for you but you might find a private school in Edmonton for a great deal less money.</p>
<p>If you concentrate on St. Paul's, it would be in your enlightened self interest to discover what the school is really about. Educationally it is in a class by itself. My sense of things is that the first thing they look at is whether you really want the riches the school would make accessible to you, not in a trivial gushy sense of "falling in love" with the idea of the place but in the sense of really milking it for what it can do for you. So lets talk about that. Languages. just how good are you in French? Are you up for Latin, Greek, German ?</p>
<p>Humanities, do you have any sense of what an integrated humanities programme --surely the glory of a St. paul's education--involves? Arts? Music, would you be passionate about singing in a choir or playing in the orchestra? Sports, of course your hockey experience would be a big plus provided you convey in your application that your standard in everything academic is a first. St. Paul's is one of the great schools of the world. Just being cute won't cut it. How about learning a bit of latin and competing for the classical honours scholarship? A little mathematics won't kill you either. You're obviously not an academic all star in this subject but they would be looking at an 80-85. Piece of cake, a cat could do it.</p>
<p>If I were you I would sit the SSAT and apply to St. Paul's and Peddy hope for the best. If I didn't get in there I would do IB in Edmonton and apply to a United World College in Canada. You have no downside, so get your act together and start working on your application</p>