<p>Son needing almost full FA
93SSAt
Great reccomendations
Won numerous awards
Accepted:Exeter
Waitlisted: Hotchkiss
Rejected:Choate- letter clearly states because of financial need
Waiting on new: Andover, Deerfield</p>
<p>Full FA
83% ssats
Rejected: Exeter.</p>
<p>Lucie…what that means is the school will still admit you. After you are admitted, the app is sent to fa and they decide if they have the funds. So you can be admitted, but without aid.</p>
<p>We need >50% FA. My S got waitlisted at M-Burg due to lack of funds. I agree with others who expected decisions to be made regards of FA need. For example, I would have expected an acceptance letter followed by a FA Offer. Then the parents could determine whether or not they could afford the school. Apparently FA for Independent Secondary Schools is different than FA for Independent Primary Schools.</p>
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<p>My understanding is that schools that are short on funds (and this is most of them) dispense all of their FA budget to the kids they admit. So they don’t want to admit student X with a $20,000 FA grant when they know she needs $40,000 because that ties up $20,000 of their FA funds for a student who, in all likelihood, will still not be able to attend. So, the kids they can’t afford go on the waitlist. And when other kids decline FA offers, the schools redirects those funds to the kids on the waitlist.</p>
<p>If you think you can come up with more money than your financial aid statement would indicate, the solution is to tell the school this - as soon as possible! If the school discovers you only need half of what they’d anticipated, they might be able to come up with the money to cover the rest.</p>
<p>I say all of this with the caution that I am only repeating - as best I can - what I was told by the FA director at one school. So the situation elsewhere might be different.</p>
<p>Need 100% FA, Husband a student. Son applying for his 9th grade year: 89% SSAT, Eagle Scout, good recs. Waitlisted at Mercersburg, Rejected at Lawrenceville. He had been nominated for a merit scholarship at McCallie by an alumnus, and while he did not get it, he did have an early acceptance. We were suppose to hear today re FA but nothing came by Fed X. (Or regular mail either, we know the other results from on line notification). We have not heard from Tabor or Christchurch. Remember that the schools may accept your child and may not give FA if even if you qualify. So a rejection or a waitlist can simply be that there were sooo many applicants that even though your kid was great, chances were slim. If the chance is slim anyway a rejection may have nothing to do with the need for FA. Mail is generally slow in my area so I am not surprised by no mail but it was discouraging for my son not to get any actual mail. Tomorrow, Tomorrow…</p>
<p>I’m a student btw.
family contribution was 0$, and just got into deerfield with a very generous FA( not full but i’ll be able to go), I also applied as an international student and 11th grade.
I seem to have the lowest chance, since I need full FA, international and 11th grade. But I got in. Who knows. So everyone, i can’t stress this enough, KEEP YOUR HOPES UP! I was waitlisted by 2 schools and rejected by 1 yesterday, and today I finally got a fat green envolope. I 'm so happy and so thankful now!</p>
<p>I needed about half didn’t get that but i got enough from THS to go. Waiting on Groton FA wise.</p>
<p>D rejected Andover, Exeter, wl Deerfield. SSAT 99%, HH (A/A+) in good prep school, high class rank, great letters and essays, state honors in fine arts, a real publication, state competition in science. We’re in several UR categories, but have high FA needs.</p>
<p>mamalion-was your d accepted at other schools? If not are you considering applying late to schools? Your d has such great stats it sounds like she would do great academically almost anywhere.</p>
<p>emdee, I was just going to say the same thing to mamalion. I hope you’re still waiting on some responses!</p>
<p>Congrats to exoveerotch, that’s great news and should inspire folks to try again next year if need be.</p>
<p>blueraven, I’m so happy for you! My son is at Hotchkiss so let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Dear D already goes to a good day school, and it will be good to have her stay home. I do wonder if we did “something wrong,” but can’t figure what it would be.</p>
<p>Thanks for your kind words.</p>
<p>I need more than 50% in financial aid for Groton. When you have a gross income of $145,000, $45,000 is a lot of money.</p>
<p>I’ve been accepted for Groton however, maybe you just need a GREAT recommendation. B’s in Science and Language Arts, A’s in everything else. I had a 99th Percentile score for SSATs and had a pretty decent essay and interview. My winning point, they even said it in the acceptance letter, was that I had a '97 Groton alumni say GREAT things about me. He told me he has never seen a student as great as me and that I am the only one he’ll ever recommend.</p>
<p>Smarty did you get that? I got less than half from THS and my family earns less than yours</p>
<p>mamalion, while I think you should’ve applied to more than 3 schools in your situation (i.e. need significant FA), I don’t think the rejection from A and E was necessrily related to your financial need. Both schools are offering FA to 40%+ of their student body and A is need-blind. You daughter has almost perfect stats and it’s hard to imagine that she didn’t get serious consideration from either school. The outcome that she was not even waitlisted in either makes me feel that there might be some “red flag” raised somewhere. It’s not necessarily that you did something wrong, but rather they may have identified something that made her not a good fit to the school. It happens regardless whether one needs FA. That’s why you should apply to more schools.</p>
<p>mamalion, I would call PEA and PA and ask why. Just to know.</p>
<p>Last year I called PA when son was rejected (and accepted to Exeter) and they gave me very little info. Only said “while there was much to admire in XXX’s application he did not stand out from the applicant pool”. Sometimes there is nothing wrong, no red flag but your child is not different enough from the rest to stand out.</p>
<p>mamalion…it most def. could be financial aid. Several years ago my son was rejected at Exeter. We called and asked and were told it was fa related.</p>
<p>Well keylme, I said “not necessarily” FA related, and you said “most def. could be” - so I guess we are saying the same thing? 
The issue here is that Exeter indeed does accept a significant number of students offering them substantial or even full FA each year. The qualifications of some - if not many - of those students are not as strong as mamalion’s daughter (I am not just talking about academics. She is under represented in more than one way, and she has major hooks such as publication and awards…) Is it so unreasonable to think that the rejection was not necessarily because of her finanical need?</p>