<p>Andover didn’t exclude incomplete applications. They have told the people to NOT COMPLETE their applications as they were deemed inadmissible. If someone filed an application and you told them to not bother completing the application, they should count toward your acceptance rate. Btw, they should have also told the 87% applicants that didn’t get in the same thing and not have them complete their applications. Thank God, we have Smahht people like Periwinkle to catch the fine print.</p>
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<p>Given the available data online, it’s not rocket science to deduce the admit rates. SharingGift is spot on. If Andover shows their admissions files, SharingGift will be proven spot on. Accept the challenge jmilton?</p>
<p>By all means, Andover has been doing absolutely great by broadening the access to its fantastic education for low-income families. I’m not questioning that. I in fact enormously admire that. After all, not many other schools, and colleges, can do that…on a need-blind basis. I was simply thinking out loud that those numbers didn’t seem to add up.</p>
<p>Not all the students who apply for financial aid are awarded it. Some families apply for FA to try and get it because that tuition bill is going to hurt, and it doesn’t hurt their application to try. They may be accepted but not get aid. I just bring this up because when you try to calculate admission rates for FA, you can’t do it without knowing the number of FA applicants who didn’ tqualify for FA but were accepted.</p>
<p>Aren’t Deerfield, Concord, and SAS in Delaware also need blind? I think they each award fairly large grants to families earning under $80,000 per year. It seems everyone here focuses on A & E when needing a great deal of financial aid. They aren’t necessarily the only generous schools.</p>
<p>As to the question of Andover being need-blind, if ~60% of the applicant pool are FA candidates, and 50% of the class is, that means that if ~10% of the admitted class did not get FA (which is plausible, because many people apply for FA to Andover even though they don’t need it, because it’s need blind) the numbers work out to be even. I don’t know any secret numbers or anything, so I could be completely wrong, but that was just my 2 cents on this.</p>
<p>Concord admits students on a need blind basis, but they do not offer aid to all admitted students who qualify for it. They are very generous with the packages they offer.</p>
<p>To clarify, SAS no longer uses “need blind” language in its materials.</p>
<p>My take on this is that it’s not because the school isn’t exceptionally generous* when it comes to aid…but rather because they don’t think it’s possible to be truly need blind. If anything, I’d say that they may even be “need aware”…granting admission to students who feel could most benefit from an SAS education. This is, of course, only my opinion/conjecture.</p>
<p>Note: SAS granted $5.2 million in FA last year. For a school about 1/3rd the size of Andover, well…you do the math.</p>
<p>*Colonel is correct that SAS states that FA for internationals is limited.</p>
<p>Hi, everyone!
I’m an Upper at Andover, so perhaps I can help.</p>
<p>Last year’s yield was a complete anomaly–it was not expected to be repeated this year by anyone.</p>
<p>Also, people were previously discussing need-blind aid, so I wanted to throw in my two cents. My family isn’t wanting for resources, and so you can imagine our surprise when I received a 50% scholarship to Andover for my three-year tenure at the academy. That’s a $60,000 scholarship for a family that really didn’t need much aid whatsoever. I’m not applying for financial aid in college, even! Andover truly does seem need-blind to me, because there are a lot of other students with stories like mine. Perhaps I’m naive, but I don’t think the website is deceitful.</p>