<p>Thanks! Anybody else?</p>
<p>rejected by Taft, I am almost positive that it is because I applied for the senior class</p>
<p>Sorry. Did you apply anywhere else?</p>
<p>i was rejected from taft as well. they wanted meatheads! intellectuals/artistics don't have a chance for any grade after 10th! seriously -- they're all recruited athletes for 11th and 12th. hockey!</p>
<p>i got into exeter and possibly andover, but i was rejected from choate, SPS, and taft... hmm??? it's because exeter and andover have more room for people other than dumb jocks, and they don't accept you if you can't handle the workload. the other, smaller, less AMAZING (hehehe) schools rejected me because they didn't have room for anyone other than the busload of recruits.. i shouldn't have even applied because it was final before they got my app -- seriously.</p>
<p>Couldn't agree with you more, blairt. That was jus a waste of application fees, but I guess it pays off now that you're going to be spending the next two years at an AMAZING school for free. =]</p>
<p>To the parents or experienced posters on this board: What would be the best way to negotiate a financial aid offer? On the phone? In person at revisits? In a letter? Any tips on persuading them?</p>
<p>That's a great thread of its own, tom!</p>
<p>We did not negotiate for our son's prep school, but this year with his college financial aid offer his dad went up to his ED school and met with the director of financial aid. He brought a copy of our budget including car insurance bills, oil bills etc anything that would support why our EFC was too high as it did not take into account the increased costs of living in the Northeast.</p>
<p>After this meeting our son's FA package was increased by about 7K (grants) which will be a big help</p>
<p>I think it pays to meet with them face to face.</p>
<p>D's BS aid offer was increased by $2,500 after we called and talked to them.</p>
<p>Thanks all. I created a new thread on this topic, so any further posts, please go there!</p>
<p>taft- rejected (who cares? it was my safety school</p>
<p>hotchkiss- wait list</p>
<p>choate- wait list (cried when I found out.. I really wanted it)</p>
<p>andover- nothing yet!!!!! its my fave one i'm really hoping</p>
<p>Aw, I cried when I found out too... :(</p>
<p>Well actually blairt, the smaller schools take fewer applicants than the larger schools - it's not about accepting meatheads, rather it's the fact that as someone cited as an example, Taft takes 5 people for the 11th grade. Exeter and Andover take many more as they are twice as large. I went to Taft (graduated in the same class as Trey Anastasio of Phish fame) and roomed with someone who was accepted for the 11th - she wasn't an athlete or a meathead. I think trying to figure out why adcoms make certain decisions is folly - the simple fact is that there are many more applicants than there are openings and different people fill different school's needs. For me, Taft was the only school I wanted to attend and it was life changing for me. Amazing is all relative...</p>
<p>Exactly, smeetie. Taft takes 5 applicants for the 11th grade, not 20/30 like Exeter or Andover. Because 11th and 12th grade is when they recruit a lot of accomplished athletes, those 5 spots are sort of taken up before they even really look at the 11th grade applicants that weren't recruited.</p>
<p>Exeter and Andover are more competitive than Taft or Choate (hard statistics). The acceptance rate for Andover 11th grade applicants last year was around 12.13% (but they had about 35% less spots this year, even though BS awareness has greatly increased, esp. w/ kids already in high school).</p>
<p>My application to Choate was 10x more thought-out, well prepared, and what the school said they were looking for (which is why everyone thought that it was my "fit", because it just fit me so well). The Choate application basically catered to my talents; it allowed me to demonstrate everything about me that would add to their community and attest to talent. Also, I read an essay that a current Choate student wrote for their application, and it was horrible and unimaginative (and they had other things going against them as well). My Exeter application was rather lousy, considering their ideals; I didn't send in any great supplementary material (they never saw my artwork, whereas my Choate interviewer did), my essays were a bit off-topic (albeit very good), I didn't exactly fit the school ideal (I'm wayyyy behind in math, for one, and my state is way overrepresented there), and I told them I was applying to their rival, Andover (which they could tell fit me better). Therefore, I conjectured, that if I got into a school that was much more competitive, yet had more openings for non-athletes, then maybe that was the reason (openings) that I wasn't accepted into the less-competitive, smaller schools. Most kids already at BS have told me that the majority of students who come in in 11th/12th/PG are in fact athletes, but it's just a thought.</p>
<p>Hill - Reject
Loomis - Reject
Concord - ?
Peddie - ?</p>