<p>I turned down large financial aid grants at Loomis, Taft, and Hotchkiss. Hope the money finds its way to someone else, even if my spots don’t.</p>
<p>@prepschoolhopes are you going to Choate? Since all of the schools you turned down are in Connecticut.</p>
<p>Did anyone here about Milton Academy and their wait list?</p>
<p>*hear I wouldn’t normally be a spellfixer, but you’ve spelled that wrong a lot.</p>
<p>A kid at my (former) middle school is waitlisted, nothing yet there.</p>
<p>@needtoboard Yes, I am. </p>
<p>Exeter isn’t taking anyone off of their waitlist.</p>
<p>So far, no more waitlist movement will happen has been announced for: Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Westminster and Choate. I don’t know if those are absolutely accurate but that is what has been posted on CC by folks who heard from those schools. </p>
<p>Cate said “At this time we are fully enrolled for 2014-15 and there has been no change on our wait pool situation.”. So please don’t anticipate possible movement of waitlist in Cate.</p>
<p>@ccyen328 When did you hear that from Cate?</p>
<p>They replied my inquiry yesterday.</p>
<p>St. Pauls (NH) is fully enrolled.They sent word to their waitlist folks today.</p>
<p>^Hehe I know the Davis Scholar from Burkina Faso.</p>
<p>What is the Davis Scholar program? Only one I know of is the group of age 24+ women studying as undergrads at Wellesley College. </p>
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<p>Here is fudging again and the use of semantics. They want to sound like it’s overall yield, but it is 85% of who attended the Spring visit program. A good chunk of these are local day students, obviously they can’t all choose to go to Dracut High School. 25% didn’t attend the revisits. So what is the true overall yield?</p>
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<p>What about St. Andrew’s School, Delaware? As was discussed on the other thread about Andover’s need-blind admissions and the rigorous statistical analysis, it is unlikely that it is ever truly need-blind. When a School claims something, who checks their books other than it being a Self-Proclamation? CCers need to take these unilateral statements for what they are.</p>
<p>2007 description of Davis Scholar program, which provides a 7 year scholarship covering both 3 years of boarding school and college:
<a href=“https://www.andover.edu/About/Newsroom/Pages/PhillipsAcademyChosentoPilot.aspx”>https://www.andover.edu/About/Newsroom/Pages/PhillipsAcademyChosentoPilot.aspx</a>
<a href=“Davis Scholarships Pilot Program - Prep School Admissions - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/415887-davis-scholarships-pilot-program.html</a></p>
<p>2009 description from Andover:
Eight newly-admitted students are inaugural designees as Davis Scholars, a need-based scholarship designed to increase diversity at secondary boarding schools and colleges by selecting highly motivated, potential leaders—domestically and abroad—who have the most to benefit. Phillips Academy is one of five U.S. schools in this pilot program, which offers continued scholarship support to students who graduate from these high schools and matriculate into colleges and universities that also participate in the Davis United World College Scholars program.</p>
<p>Related to Davis United World College Scholars:
<a href=“http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/”>http://www.davisuwcscholars.org/</a></p>
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SAS stopped being need-blind last year, so Andover is correct in their claim.</p>
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<p>Or of the 25% that didn’t go, they could have received acceptances too. Actually, I know that they did.</p>
<p>What is it with the cynicism? Let Andover do whatever they want. It’s not like by proclaiming that the acceptances were higher that they’d dissuade people from applying.</p>
<p>I’m just going to point out that SAS stopped calling themselves need-blind. I asked my AO about it, and she said that it’s because they could always tell when looking at an application whether or not the student was well-off. </p>
<p>I heard Vivian Mallick (Andover AO) explain Andover’s process. Basically she said that when the Ad Com goes thru the stack of applications, they get to pick whoever they want for the “YES” pile. She called it “being able to get my first round draft pick”. </p>
<p>Although being truly blind is almost impossible, the main difference is that other schools typically have to go through the “YES” pile for kids needing financial aid. They then start handing out the FA and then once all the money is used up, the remaining FA kids in the “YES” pile get moved to waitlist.</p>
<p>This is really the only difference between Andover and other schools. But they truly are trying their best. Even colleges who claim they are need blind cannot be 100% true to this. In my opinion, Andover is taking an admirable position on this and hopefully other schools can do the same.</p>
<p>Do you think getting your application in early (before January 15) makes a difference if you need FA? </p>