<p>Lucky ballerina! Nice job! My other option is the local public school…yay. 
Oh and I had to write my mom’s parent statements which is crazy because she’s always telling me how she’s “just as smart as dad!” (since he went to Harvard) because she went to UC Berkeley. Needless to say she thinks “Hotchkiss” is two words. Go figure.</p>
<p>Just received an acceptance letter to Linden Hall! Bad news, no scholarship. Unless I can get some major FA, I can’t go. :(</p>
<p>They’re already sending out acceptances!?!</p>
<p>Some schools have rolling admission. DD was accepted to Interlochen Arts Academy last November, for enrollment Fall of 2012.</p>
<p>[A</a> Blanket of Stress in the Pocumtuck Valley|The Scroll](<a href=“http://scroll.deerfield.edu/?p=6832]A”>http://scroll.deerfield.edu/?p=6832)</p>
<p>Does this slightly worry anybody else about DA?</p>
<p>PAGP - wow. Seems stressful. Oh well, I still love Deerfield!!!</p>
<p>On another note, I just finished submitting my final application! YAY!!! Everything is in now. My life rocks right now!! Hahahahah I can’t even explain how happy I am. I feel free!</p>
<p>ME TOO!! High fives!</p>
<p>Hey guys. I’m new to this thread and I would like to say “I AM FREE!” too. See, I WOULD like to say that. The fact is I can’t say that. Every free moment I have, I’m daydreaming about the school’s I am applying to. lol :)</p>
<p>@IHeartLearning98 - I know right! Seriously aching to leave for boarding school, for a better education :)</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that but my advice to you is to keep applying to schools, particularly those that accept the common application and have rolling admissions. We just got thru a harrowing year of applying to boarding schools for my nephew who was seeking 100% financial aid for the 11th grade. We ended up applying to over 100 schools and it was one of the very last ones to which we applied that finally offered him enough money.</p>
<p>Over 100 schools??? wow</p>
<p>I’m so glad he found one that had the aid to let him attend.</p>
<p>We were all pretty much at our wits end, but hung in there. My sister, his mother, was on the verge of throwing in the towel when she received the good news. Nonetheless, she still had to dip into her retirement to cover the cost, but she wholeheartedly believes, as I do, that it’s well worth it. She’s really happy with his reaction to his new school. After only the first battery of tests, they made him a tutor. We’re hoping they’ll ‘compensate’ him by awarding him full scholarship next year. Fingers crossed!!!</p>
<p>Am I concerned? Nah. First off, that article is 2 years old. Second, it’s proof that the adminstrators and faculty are trying to stop things like drug dealing and drug use on campus. personally, I don’t use drugs or drink, and I’m not going to start in high school. i know that some kids at BS are into that stuff, but I bet it’s a way smaller number than the number of users at my public school. At every public school and every private school there are kids who do drugs. I’d rather be somewhere that the teachers care about us enough to do something about students who are into illegal activity rather than igoring it.</p>
<p>Well, I’m sorry that you’re worried, but please don’t hijack this thread. If you want to discuss this, please take it to one of the several threads already dedicated to this issue. This thread, however, isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>How much money you get may not depend on your needs (PFS), rather on how much the school wants you. Some lower tier (than GLADCHEMMS) schools may not have that much money, they may give you more because you are really outstanding in their application pool…, and they want you so badly.</p>
<p>f2000sa: While I understand where your coming from, but I’m not sure that how much FA a school gives you is contingent on “how much the schools wants you”. They wouldn’t admit, unless they really wanted you. I think it has more to do with how much money the school has to give. If a school is going to give you ANY FA, most likely it’s going to be based off of your needs, and how much the school can afford to give you.</p>
<p>Finishing up financial aid information this weekend.</p>
<p>I’ve been so stressed, I had forgotten about this thread. Really, this thread, and a couple others helped me SO much. As of now my Andover is officially complete! I was so relieved after all the recommendation troubles. I think all my other ones are too, but Andover was the one I was most worried about because they don’t consider you after materials come past the end of January. So I’m pretty happy. </p>
<p>Oh, and I just found out I won’t be home March 10!!! I will be on my school’s community service trip. I think I’ll have to have my mom text me or something, I won’t be able to bear the long bus ride thinking about it!</p>
<p>@helloel: Wait, what? Andover doesn’t consider you if all the materials haven’t arrived before the end of January? Are there any other schools like this???!!!</p>
<p>I’m seriously freaking out now. I celebrated today because my PA app is finally complete after some mystifying business concerning my English rec. It barely made it by a day… is it fate?.. anyway, none of my other English recs have turned up for my other schools yet. SO I’M SCREWED IF THE OTHER SCHOOLS I’M APPLYING TO HAS THIS RULE. </p>
<p>Oh, God, no. I didn’t survive those essays and get disqualified over a rec.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a definite rule, but I got an automatic email reply saying that I should have everything in by the end of January if I want to be considered for regular, not late decision. Don’t worry, the next strict one was Deerfield, and they said that everything had to be in by Feb 10.</p>
<p>But if you’re really concerned I would call the schools.</p>