<p>My d was accepted at a school, but waitlisted for financial aid. Has this happened to anyone else? What are the chances of getting the financial aid she needs?</p>
<p>Yes My d last year at Rivers got accepted but waitlisted for FA. She was waitlisted at BB&N as well and got in off the waitlist so we went with BB&N.</p>
<p>It happens a lot and her chances at most schools would be small. This is something I heard happening a lot with Asian applicants coming from HK, etc. The schools will happily have them if they want to pay, but they have chosen not to spend their aid on these applicants. These are usually not the top schools though I know Andover used to have a FA waiting list.</p>
<p>Sorry, but this is the next wave, if you will of threads that will now appear here. The "they accepted me but with no money" stories. Brace yourself, as another poster mentioned, so many financial aid dollars are commited to Prep for Prep and the like that the average middle class kid finds it hard to get $$..</p>
<p>This happened to me. I was accepted to Concord but waitlisted for FA.</p>
<p>maybe that's because you were a legacy, prettyckitty? maybe, i don't know. at top schools (a/e), there are middle class white kids. it happens, but there are also a lot of rejected ones or ones WLed. my interviewer was one for exeter, and she said she had less-than-stellar stats and "was just a middle class white kid from texas", and said she had peers like her as well.. and that was in the early 90's, before they started w/ the huge socioeconomic diversity endeavor and had huge FA..but she also did work/study there.</p>
<p>Maybe. My legacy connection is pretty weak--only my uncle attended Concord--but it's possible. I don't really mind, though, because I got very good FA from other schools, and Concord wasn't my favourite.</p>