<p>I thought it would be helpful for families applying for FA to start this thread to see how much other families have ended up with in financial aid before. Could parents& students of previous years application cycles comment on which schools gave them the most aid/how much aid in a similar format to the one below?</p>
<p>Sample Applicant:</p>
<p>Acceptance Year:
2012</p>
<p>Schools Accepted To:
Deerfield
Exeter
Andover</p>
<p>Family Income Bracket:
$65,000-$70,000</p>
<p>Amount of Aid Given/Amount of Tuition Left After Aid:</p>
<p>BTW, the likelihood of someone providing the info you request in a public forum is very low. Who is going to post their HHI for all to see? C’mon, now. If you’re lucky, you’ll get some input via PM.</p>
<p>Note that the amount of FA a student may receive can vary dramatically from school to school.</p>
<p>If you are interested in how much you might receive, use one of the calculators (SPS and Exeter have them), but again…your mileage may vary. Also know that schools beyond the ACRONYMS grant a lot of FA every year.</p>
<p>And depending on the ages of other children at home, SAHM’s may have income “imputed” for FA purposes… I would be very hesitant to try to “guesstimate” what any one school would do…</p>
<p>And I can’t imagine anyone sharing their income stats on this forum. Not if they have any sense…</p>
<p>Let me just say that each family situation is extremely different. Schools also give more financial aid to kids they want more, like sports recruits, so it’s impossible to weigh how much FA you’re going to get by how much others get. I know a family where both parents are jobless and struggling to pay school tuition, but a family that makes 300,000 a year gets more FA than them (at the same school!) because of family circumstances.</p>