<p>I’m a little late to the discussion, but I think I have some helpful advice for you. I’ma a current boarding school student, but when I applied my parents made it clear that they would not spend over a certain amount for me to go to boarding school, even though they could afford it. The acceptances came, and my FA was too low for my parents to stomach. But I didn’t waste months writing essays and doing interviews for nothing, so I wrote an appeal to the financial aid office explaining the whole situation and they raised my FA the necessary amount.</p>