<p>lol bud bud bud bud bud I’m on a scholarship that pays for 95% of the tuition because both of my parents are teachers at the school I came from in England which I attended for free because, again, both of my parents teach there, so you can say bye to the whole rich thing right now because it’s just false - I’ve had to work for everything in life. I’m used to it, so it’s just what I do.</p>
<p>Okay. I give up on trying to reason with you. It’s late and I have two finals tomorrow. Why don’t you sleep on this and reread your posts in the morning (if they’re still here). I think there were a lot of hastily-posted things tonight and my advice would be that when you’re in a hole you should try not to dig yourself in any further. So rest up and smell the flowers tomorrow morning, alright? Prep school isn’t what some people think it is - it’s a lot of work and isn’t fun all of the time. With finals this week I’m feeling the pressure myself so I think we could all benefit from a break.</p>
<p>We good? We good. Goodnight.</p>
<p>you mad bro? the only reason why you cant understand that is because you attend a hades school alright, if i went to a hades school which i never in a trillion years ever would i would probably have the same perspective as you. stop trying to make this a personal issue your just trying to defend yourself because in setting straight the very thing your trying to defend. the fact is if your rich, you can easily get into hades, is your a fa applicant it is extremely difficult. end of story i dont know how basic i can explain this to you but prep schools are a business and they need money to run. im not sure if you dont know this but prep schools dont get funding from the government so they need money for them to be able to run.</p>
<p>I can appreciate how difficult it was to get accepted because I don’t have connections, a cozy trust fund, or alumni parents. Please, just stop Deerhotch. You did not get accepted while some people did. Sure, it may suck, but this is life. Life isn’t fair. It isn’t supposed to be a jolly stroll in the park. While I’ll agree that it is more difficult for FA applicants to be accepted, I disagree with the notion that FP applicants are virtually accepted on the spot. Prep school admissions are a nightmare for everyone, regardless of your financial background. Maybe 20 years ago, before acceptance rates plummeted and there were less FA applicants, you would have an argument. However, with the increasing number of HADES schools (and prep schools in general) committed to giving FA to applicants in need, your statements are as out of place as lady gaga in a convent.</p>
<p>Wow just simply wow, Im done talking to a person who has no stats to back himself up what so ever, learn to overcome your own shortcoming instead of blaming others</p>
<p>Hey, I got a great idea.</p>
<p>Deerhotch, would you mind sending an application to other HADES/Schools-that-take-all-full-pays this year, and say you don’t need financial aid?</p>
<p>I’d love to see how that goes. Seriously, if you do get in, I’ll raise some money for you.</p>
<p>I second Prep2011’s idea. Good luck with that, deerhotch. Like I said in my last posts in this ridiculous thread, this is completely bogus, and NOT all full pay applicants are easily accepted into HADES schools. How many times does it have to be said for you to understand, deerhotch? And in response to the ‘how on earth would you know anything?’ - sure, we might not know much, but what makes you think you know any more than we do? </p>
<p>Honestly, I’m slightly confused by you. If HADES is ‘just one big joke’ and you would ‘never in a trillion years’ attend, why did you bother to apply? Why are you bothering to attack not only the schools, but all other applicants?</p>
<p>Not to play devils advocate too much here, but I do believe there to be immense truth to DeerHotch’s words. As a full pay applicant, and somebody with a large legacy, I can attest to the fact that I do not have nearly the credentials that many people on this board do, and was admitted multiple HADES schools.</p>
<p>Admissions to a HADES school is easy, if you have connections to the top. This is a simple and undeniable truth, and anybody who tries to dispute this is ignorant. Life is about who you know, not what you know. There is a huge difference however, between being related to an alumni who gave a couple thousand dollars, and being related to an alumni who has donated many millions. The prior means almost nothing to admissions, while the latter will carry significant significant weight. Schools are at heart, businesses. They need lots of money to operate in the manner that they do, and connected applicants give them this money. So yes, if you are related to an alumni who has given millions, admission is unbelievably easy. </p>
<p>The applicant pool for financial aid applicants is much much more selective than the full pay pool. In order to gain a full ride, the applicant has to offer something to the school, that the school cannot find in its full pay pool. The student has to have a major hook, or has to be unbelievably brilliant. I believe the acceptance rate of the full pay student to be somewhere in the 30% range while the financial aid applicant pool is in the single digits. While 30% is no cakewalk, it is much higher than single digits. </p>
<p>In conclusion, full pay applicants are not accepted right on the spot, people with connections are. Financial aid applicants have it much harder than full pay applicants, and full pay applicants have it harder than people with connections. This is life.</p>
<p>finally someone on here understands my thread.</p>
<p>thanks for looking at it the same way i do hockeykid.</p>
<p>deerhotch you are thanking him for agreeing with you? You only say that because hockeykid said that you have some truth in your argument. If you actually read his post, he says that LEGACY kids have it easy (which is a fact that everyone knows. If you came to CC to argue about this, then that’s like going on to a forum about cooking and arguing that butter is fattening. Of course it is). But what you said about how any full pay student with just a 3.3-3.5 gpa and some ec’s can get accepted to any prep school is insulting. </p>
<p>He said, “In conclusion, full pay applicants are not accepted right on the spot, people with connections are.” What you said was that any full blow applicant will get in if they have a mediocre gpa, which contradicts what he said. Maybe, just maybe, that’s why prep schools didn’t accept you. Because you can’t read.</p>
<p>Personally, I couldn’t stop laughing at deerhotch’s comments throughout this thread. He is a joke. He claims that he did not apply to HADES schools in the beginning of this thread, yet his username is deerhotch. I am also offended. I cannot believe you think that there are 1660 fa applicants out of 1800 and that you think HADES accepted 70% of full pay applicants. I only got accepted to one out of six bs I applied to and it wasn’t a HADES school. I had a 3.7 GPA, good recommendations, extra recs, well written application, major ecs, but low test scores. Requirements are very close for everyone (accept if you know a prominent member of the school). </p>
<p>We should make a thread about all his inaccurate statements. Just kidding, but it would be as long as this one.</p>
<p>Well in his other posts he says that he is applying/has applied to HADES</p>
<p>Life is a game of politics, always. That is good motto to remember. BS wants an alumni to be proud of, not a complaining teenager who obviously didn’t get into the schools they wanted to. @deerhotch-Cheer up and apply next year, or make the best of wherever you’re at. Remember there is college admissions here too so don’t say anything you wouldn’t want them to know.On a side note: Obviously Legacy’s have it easiest (still a challenge though), then Full Pay students- then FA, That is common sense. Connections really do help BUT its still more than possible to get in without any connections or wealth to your name. I also second whoever said they’d help pay for Deerhotch if he gets in on FP after this thread he started. That made me laugh! (:</p>
<p>I applied for a school that I really wanted to get into and I got accepted but they didn’t give me financial aid. It was kind of my fault because I gave my mom the wrong dates to turn in the financial aid stuff but whatever… I’ll just apply next year I guess :(</p>
<p>Once again, I feel like I have to go back to deerhotch’s claim of “Full pay than you can go.” Let me break it to you on why you didn’t get in: Honey, you try to convey that sassy attitude of yours through atrocious grammar. If I want sassy attitude, or bad grammar, I’d go to the Pussycat Dolls.</p>