<p>@ OP:</p>
<p>No no, definitely try! Exeter was a bit tight on FA this year, but HADES are always generous with FA. They give a LOT of FA (100% of need) and 30-40% of the student body at these schools are on FA, so… :D</p>
<p>If you need it and they want you, they’ll take you! Saer is going to Choate on full-ride and Mpicz is going to SPS on… a large amount of FA, I believe. Haha, it’s a bit (okay, maybe a bit more than a bit) harder to get in with FA, but it’s certainly not impossible (I believe 12% of Exeter is on full? or was that andover…)</p>
<p>Besides, I need close-to-full FA if I’m going to go too, and I’m just going to wish for the best. 
My only advice to you is to apply to schools with relatively large endowments (like HADES, L’Ville, Choate, Middlesex, Milton, etc) because it’d be a heck of a lot easier to get FA from these than to get FA from… The Athenian School? Haha. : P</p>
<p>I’m applying next year as well, so best of luck to both of us, eh? :)</p>