<p>^^ yes linda could you please specify for us</p>
<p>@yankeefan which schools would that be?</p>
<p>um idk probably HADES</p>
<p>I don’t want to interrupt, but the desicions arrive on march 10th, so what does it matter when the AO’s complete them? Thats the question? …</p>
<p>I don’t car e when AO’s complete them I want to know what school Linda S was talking about :)</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m not willing to compromise my child’s identity but stating the schools. You can PM me.</p>
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There is a LOT more that goes into it than just reading and sending a letter.
The one school that said they are done reading by the first week in February said that it then goes to the full committee, the initial decisions are made and then it goes to Financial Aid.<br>
The letters themselves take a long time - between physically producing them and then matching up any FA award, the contracts, etc. It’s not a one day job.<br>
For letters to go out on March 9 or 10, they have to start working on them I would say by the 5th.<br>
Keep backing it up, FA probably needs a week. Then when there isn’t enough money for all, how does it get distributed…committee?<br>
Logically, an initial run at it needs to be done by mid-february in order for everything else to be done on time.</p>
<p>^Well, not that i care much, but I doubt it would compromise your daughter’s identity, when a few hundred students will have same profile as her as far as school(s) she/he’s applying to. </p>
<p>And Andover doesn’t let their decision be affected by F/A so they will arrive at same time as everyone else,</p>
<p>Actually, shushugah, you are not correct. My user name, which I should have chosen differently, along with the schools I generally know about would absolutely give away who my child is. I’m not saying that the admins (this time of year especially) scour message boards looking for people, but if I said the schools, and one happened to pop on here and read the posts the would know who I am and thus my child.</p>
<p>Will schools deny admission because of financial aid or will they accept you but tell you that you were rejected for financial aid?</p>
<p>they will accept you and say however we cannot match your F/A needs, and say if you can find someone…or get lucky…</p>
<p>I thought they put you on a FA wait list.</p>
<p>I’ve heard FA needs do affect admission. If the school isn’t going to offer you as much FA as you require (or are willing to pay as indicated by your “offer”), then they won’t accept you because they are worried about yield.</p>
<p>aldogirl, some schools do acceptances “need blind” and others do not. Sometimes the schools state on websites (or is it on the common data set or UN&WR or COR sites) whether they do acceptances “need blind”. Also what Linda S said regarding the Committiee approach (various people reading and your AO making a pitch for you if you are marginal) matches what the Director of Admissions at Smith said at one of their spring previews.</p>
<p>shushugah, Many (most) schools will absolutely waitlist or even deny a FA applicant if they cannot pay for them. And often, a student has no way of knowing if FA was the reason for the decision or not, unless they call and ask. Last year, I got a call from NMH saying that though my son was “admissable” they did not have they aid for him so he would get a kind of strange quasi-acceptance letter that said that he was accepted but only if we could come up with the tuition. Most schools do not bother making those kinds of calls or explaining their decisions, and I don’t blame them. I found it extremely thoughtful of NMH to do that. </p>
<p>And even if Andover admissions hands the FA director a list of names of the kids they want who need FA, it will still take several days just to get all the numbers together, nevermind the printing of contracts, stuffing of FedEx envelopes, etc.</p>
<p>neato, to clarify - so NMH gave your son a “conditional” admission? I guess in this case your financial need was not great or they had reasons to believed that you had other ways to fund the tuition? Otherwise, I wouldn’t call it “thoughtful”. I’d call it bull****. As put in a post from GemmaV which you cited earlier, offering admission ignoring the clear FA needs is a “slap in the face” (something to that effect).</p>
<p>On the contrary, our financial need was great. What was thoughtful was that his interviewer, who was also the director of FA, called me rather than just sending the letter.</p>
<p>I agree. I want to know if FA was the reason.</p>
<p>idk about other schools, but I hear NMH always does that which is really just plain awesome of them,</p>
<p>As “considerate” as it may sound, knowing FA is the reason for your being rejected/waitlisted is not all that comforting. For one, words are cheap. They could offer that as a reason for anyone who apply for FA and end up not being selected. Secondly, knowing the school has giving FA to some others in your situation, you might be wondering whether you are not good enough in the FA applicant pool or you are too good (yes, that could happen as the school predicts you are most likely going somewhere else). So, my take is that a rejection is a rejection, and a WL is WL. You don’t NEED to know the reason. Do you know in many schools even the admission letters are uniform? What do you expect for a rejection/wl letter? Just pick up and move on…</p>