<p>Hey</p>
<p>There was a thread like this a few years back that was extremely helpful for families as they try to figure out which schools bend over backwards to make FA happen and which are/need to be a bit more cautious with FA awards. </p>
<p>Can we treat it the way that we treat the master acceptance list, namely each poster copies the previous post and then inserts their results.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Calrenoma's Daughter
Amount of FA needed: Full
Accepted with FA: Emma Willard, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville
WL: Andover, Exeter, Middlesex, Loomis, Mercersburg, Blair, Westover,
Denied: Taft, Concord</p>
<p>I’m unaware of my FA need, but I do know it was for as much as I could get. Here are some stats:</p>
<p>Accepted:
George School
Peddie
Stuart Country Day</p>
<p>Wait-listed:
Princeton Day</p>
<p>With FA into play, the list turns into:</p>
<p>Accepted (with significant FA):
Stuart Country Day
Peddie</p>
<p>FA wait-list:
George School</p>
<p>Some of the school statistics were surprising because I didn’t know what the endowment fund had. I expected to get FA from George, because they have a large endowment, but that doesn’t matter. I know that Peddie has a large endowment, so I wasn’t too surprised, and Stuart Country Day caught me off guard because they are a smaller school, and I didn’t know what their money goes to. I’m just thankful I’m able to attend BS!</p>
<p>I was accepted to Exeter and the financial aid was more than generous, nearly full. This is not including the additional 850 for books and school supplies as well as the computer</p>
<p>Please don’t post your actual numbers. It makes it too easy to be identified. Ballpark figure or percentages are probably a better idea. You never know who lurks here but doesn’t post.</p>
<p>Wait, is what I said okay?</p>
<p>Yes @laughalittle, generalities like you posted are fine</p>
<p>I’m just urging students to be cautious about posting schools and “exact” dollar amounts. That information is supposed to be confidential between you and the school and it may violate the contract. Even if it does not - it exposes the school to “but you gave so and so ‘X’ amount and not us.”</p>
<p>Future posts should say “met most of my need,” “met half of my need”, etc. That keeps the student safe and the parent’s financial transaction with the school confidential.</p>
<p>I got ca. 80% financial aid. Applying as an 11th grader.</p>
<p>I would advise anyone reading this list to keep in mind that “individual results may vary,” even within the same school. Thankfully, schools are continuing to make a great education affordable to a large portion of families and FA budgets are very large at many schools. However, they cannot fund all the deserving students and difficult decisions must be made by the admissions committees in conjunction with the FA office. Last year, one school told me that they had more admissible FA candidates than they had total spaces available! I don’t think any one of us outsiders can know what criteria is used to determine who gets the offer and who doesn’t.</p>
<p>I could list all the schools where my son was offered full need and where he was denied or waitlisted and then list my daughter’s - along with their stats and ECs - but I really don’t think it would be helpful at all. And as great as I think my son is, I don’t see what would have made him “fundable” and not my daughter. So, what I think everyone should know is that YES! many kids are given a remarkable gift from many schools, even those who have no “hooks.” Also, many kids are not given that remarkable gift, for whatever reason.</p>
<p>Be wary of drawing conclusions from this list. Just because a school is cautious with one student doesn’t mean that they won’t bend over backwards for another, and vise versa. It all depends on what the schools want/need in any given year.</p>
<p>I probably need about 75% FA.
Waitlisted: Emma Willard, Exeter, Deerfield, Hotchkiss
Rejected: Andover</p>