<p>Hey I’m new on CC and I’m applying as a ninth grader to MX next year. I was wondering what’s the financial aid like at MX. Are a lot of people on FA and is the school “need- blind”? ( I didn’t find anything about that on the site) MX is definitely my first choice for high school, I’ve already visited.</p>
<p>^ they are not need-blind</p>
<p>That’s not a good thing for me at all. I’m also applying as a day student. Is it harder to get in as a day student applying for FA?</p>
<p>Yes, it is harder, though it depends on how great your need is. Whether or not you receive FA and how much you receive depends on many factors, none of which can be fully quantified by anyone but the admissions officers. However, I am not receiving FA, so I’m not quite the person to ask about specifics.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what my “demonstrated need” is, but I know that my family couldn’t hope to pay even half of the day student tuition. (aprox. $30k) Does anyone know how many day student applicants MX receives?</p>
<p>bsr says that at middlesex, 32% of students receive FA, and that the average grant is ~34k. bsr might be outdated by a few years, but the message is that [nearly] a third of their student body’s on FA. if you have the merit, i’m sure you’ll get decent FA. gl!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot DiveAlive. BSR has some inaccurate information, especially about matriculation. But the only reason I think I might not be accepted is that MX only takes (aprox) 25 day students. Half of them half to be girls so that leaves 12 or 13 slots for male day students. I’m just not sure what the acceptance rate is for day students applicants.</p>
<p>It’s 25 percent day students, not 25 total [more like 30% now, though]</p>
<p>No, I know that it is 25 percent day students. It’s just that each class I’m guessing has aprox. 25% day students. And if each class has aprox. 100 students then there would probably be around 25 day students per class.</p>
<p>Ah, I see. It seems like we have more day students than that… perhaps because they’ve been accepting more day students in past years. But, as there are proportionally many more people applying as day students, the competition is brutal [and thus day girls have a reputation for being preppy, OCD color-coordinating wicked studious girls].</p>
<p>That’s REALLY not good for me, as I’m going to apply as a day student. I guess I have to make the school really want me then. What about the day student guys, are they normal? (I’m a guy btw.)</p>
<p>lol, not all day students are like that. it’s just a stereotype. And day student guys are fairly normal, for day students [just a joke, lol].</p>
<p>can anyone give me a breakdown of the boys dorms at MX</p>
<p>when i was up at MX for a preseason camp in june i stayed in (i forgot the name) the crappy one whose dorm parents were kojo and stewart and another english teacher. that dorm sucks. and it seems like no one could get any work done. so clearly i do not want to dorm there</p>
<p>^That would be Clay. Did Kojo bake anything? he makes the BEST brownies. Anyway, clay sucks locationwise and interiorwise, but everyone who lives there seems to love it [for reasons you’ll discover in the fall]. </p>
<p>The other three dorms are RW, BP and Atkins. </p>
<p>RW is nearly as crappy on the inside as Clay, BP and Atkins are pretty nice on the inside .the dorm head of Atkins is very strict, and faculty in RW tends to be pretty lax. BP is generally fair, and besides the occasional crack down in Clay after an incident, it tends to be relatively lax as well, from what I’ve observed. Beyond that, dorm personalities change from year to year, so it really just depends on who’s in your dorm.</p>
<p>oh right i have another question can i bring a fridge or is that a no go</p>
<p>your aloud a fridge if your in some forms . i think you have to be a fifth or a sixth former to be aloud to bring a fridge.</p>
<p>You need to either be a senior or have a prescription that needs to be refrigerated to have a fridge. That said, a lot of people get away with fridges anyway.</p>
<p>God damn it </p>
<p>Oh well</p>
<p>What electric appliances do you recommend me bringing </p>
<p>Other than the obvious ones</p>
<p>actually Hcos12893 your not aloud to bring most appliances becuase they are a fire hazard in the dorms.</p>
<p>lava lamp lol</p>
<p>depends on what you count as “obvious”</p>
<p>-i highly recommend a fan [most if not all of the dorms lack air conditioning and it can get pretty hot in the beginning and end of the school year]
-i ended up sharing a coffee machine with my roommate [it was an old one from her house]. It was nice.
-you technically cannot have a fridge [though many have them anyway], but an electric cooler is basically the same thing and i’m going to attempt to convince my mom to get me one
-lots of people [mostly guys] have stereo systems.
-not completely sure about tv’s- i think only seniors are allowed to have them, but some juniors in the school paper’s “room raiders” section apparently had one, so idk</p>
<p>hope that covered it, more or less!</p>