<p>I know Exeter/Andover have incredible financial aid programs, but what about other schools? I'm speaking from an international perspective (well, Canada), and Exeter considers us "a domestic partner" which is great, but for lots of other schools.. "financial aid for international students is very limited"?</p>
<p>So does anybody know of some schools that give financial aid.. rather generously/often meets need? I'm not talking about need-blind schools.. just more "giving" schools, than others? </p>
<p>(I'm not sure if this post made sense at all, so, y'know. Just ask me to clarify!)
Thank youu!</p>
<p>Not exactly a scientific way of going about it, but I would bet that a schools endowment would be a fairly good indicator of it's FA program. Of course that's not always true, but I'm sure endowment and FA budget are very closely related.</p>
<p>Well I am really bored so I may as well make a mathematical proof for this:</p>
<p>No school is likely to remain need-blind and yes that includes Exeter and Andover. </p>
<p>Hotchkiss provides awesome financial aid - particularly if you are a Hotchkiss scholar. Hotchkiss endowment per student is larger than Andover's. </p>
<p>But endowment means something but what really matters is how the schools spends that endowment so let's examine that shall we:
then you should complete the aid application forms.
Gross Family Income </p>
<p>All schools are equally generous with financial aid. The reason a certain school has a greater percent of students on financial aid than another school is simply because that certain school is more socioeconomically diverse. The schools do not self compute how much aid you deserve, but rather they let the financial aid people decide. These FA people are the same for every school and college. </p>
<p>A school like SPS has 38% of students on FA, and a school like NMH has 29% because SPS has students that are less wealthy. (false statistics)</p>
<p>That's just totally wrong benevolent... all schools want go give the most possible FA to all those who need it, but most can't, so they give it to as many qualified applicants as they can. How generous a school is with FA is almost certainly linked to how much they can afford to give out, therefore generosity differs from school to school.</p>
<p>Whatever it is, all those numbers gave me a headache.</p>
<p>Anyway, as far as FA goes, some schools just flat-out don't have the money to provide excellent financial aid like those that have better endowments, and ones that are constantly growing (that is to say, was). Just like there are families who have money to give to charities and such, there are families who can't -- it's the same way for BS, and colleges, as well. I don't think it's necessarily a question of generosity as it is capability.</p>
<p>I don't know the exact figures, but I do think NMH is generous with their fa. They cannot afford to be need-blind like Exeter, but they do provide 100% of the demonstrated need for those accepted for aid.</p>
<p>@ keylyme: haha, i heard about that, too! that NMH had this.. um, wish/motto/mission to do with meeting or exceeding demonstrated need for FA. yay, generosity!</p>
<p>does anybody know if this goes for canadians, too? i know that andover & exeter consider Canada to be a domestic partner, but for some schools, it says on their website, "financial aid for international students is very limited". @_@; vagueness.. eek!</p>
<p>Deerfield is extremely generous with international student financial aid - the average financial aid gift to non-domestic international students covers 81% of tuition, exactly the same as domestic gifts. As a student living in Europe, this was a big plus.</p>
<p>I'm going to have to disagree with a lot of you on that one. I'm pretty sure that middlesex offers the best FA.</p>
<p>It is not because i love it, or that my sn is Middlesex, but becuase if you go to their website, you can see that they offer much better FA, to a larger percentage of people.</p>
<p>hockeykid, don’t be ridiculous. You don’t even need boardingschoolreview to tell you that Middlesex is not the best school in terms of financial aid. Despite the fact that boardingschoolreview has a few small errors, such as one that puts the Florida Air Academy as the number one school for highest SSAT scores of applicants, it is still a good site to use for getting rough ideas of schools because most of the time it is right.</p>
<p>Do you actually believe Middlesex is the best school for financial aid or are you just being difficult on purpose?</p>
<p>To be fair, Middlesex isn’t bad exactly, even though it costs slightly more to go there than the other schools. If you go on their site there’s a chart for the financial aid that was given last year:</p>