<p>The UVA stat reminds me of NCSSM's stats. They only listed where people got accepted on the sheet I got but like the entire student body got into UNC.</p>
<p>While it's not AS financially exclusive as, say, Phillips, the neighborhood TJ is in (middle-upper middle class) puts it at a huge advantage compared to many public schools.</p>
<p>With 41% of the class receiving financial aid, Andover isn't as financially exclusive as it was in the past. In addition, Andover just recently moved to need blind admissions.</p>
<p>this even pawns my school. In terms of top acceptances we have 40 cornell, 20 columbia, 15 dartmouth, 10 brown, 5 harvard, 5 yale, 5 princeton, 7 upenn, 4 stanford, 3 mit.</p>
<p>Still 114 acceptances to ivies and stanford and mit is impressive condierding our school has so little money compared to tj.</p>
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With 41% of the class receiving financial aid, Andover isn't as financially exclusive as it was in the past. In addition, Andover just recently moved to need blind admissions.
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That means 59% of the students' parents are going to foot the entire $62K bill($62K being the number Andover reports as the price of tuition for next year, only $37K this year. <a href="http://www.andover.edu/parents/billing/pdf/TuitionRefund.pdf)%5B/url%5D">http://www.andover.edu/parents/billing/pdf/TuitionRefund.pdf)</a>. For high school, an education most kids get for free. $62K is more than room and board at what I believe is every college in America. That's pretty financially exclusive.</p>
<p>$62k? Are you serious? Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>Phillips is good but not "THAT" good to charge a total of $248,000 for a high school education. I'd rather just move to Virginia near TJSS, pay the same amount, and get an apartment though while I'm at it! (I'm guessing since the neighborhood is afluent as you say, that an apartment is around the same range as that)</p>
<p>thats more than what their parents will pay at ANY college their children will go to even including HYP. dam Andover costs more than harvard.</p>
<p>Phillips = For the rich</p>
<p>TJSS = Partly for the Rich, Partly for the poor</p>
<p>Since TJSS is a public school in Alexandria, VA, and Alexandria VA's poverty rate is 9%, so thus those people in direct 'poverty' have a chance to attend TJSS based on their own merit.</p>
<p>You misread the file:
<a href="http://www.andover.edu/parents/billing/pdf/TuitionRefund.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.andover.edu/parents/billing/pdf/TuitionRefund.pdf</a></p>
<p>They are saying that it costs the school $62K per student to educate them. However, the tuition remains $37K for boarding students and $29K for day students. It costs every school more to educate the students than what they charge for tuition - that is what the deep endowment is for. </p>
<p>It is a misconception that Andover is exclusively for the rich. My mom is a public school teacher; My dad is by no means wealthy. A good number of my friends fit the same profile. You will find children of the wealthiest men in the world at Andover; you will find children who grew up below the poverty line at Andover.</p>
<p>More on Andover:
From</a> Barbara Chase - Phillips Academy Announces Need Blind Admissions
Andover</a> - News - Financial Times</p>