<p>I see WL everywhere is year, seems they were given more generously by many schools, especially to international applicants.</p>
<p>Do you have the same observation? What may be the reason behind it? I can't think of any.</p>
<p>We got a letter from the school addressed to all parents stating that parents requesting FA for the first time needed to send in paperwork by February 1, existing FA parents had a deadline of March 1.</p>
<p>At private schools across the country, many families that were formerly full pays are needing aid because of the economy. It’s especially true here locally. I’m noticing the WL trend on CC this week is skewed towards first-time applicants needing aid. </p>
<p>I looked at Boarding School review and a lot of the most talked about schools have a FA rate of about 25-35% Andover was high at 45% But that’s still a lot of families paying full freight.</p>
<p>So if SPS, for instance, had 212 spots but has a FA rate of 37% that suggests it only had space for 78 FA kids total (assuming no existing full pay kids need first time aid).</p>
<p>Still - I’m convinced that so many students apply to the same subset of schools, there will be openings on the waitlist for FA for someone else as admitted students choose where to sign their contracts and decline their spots at the others.</p>
<p>But there are bright spots. Some CC students are getting generous aid up to full rides. So for those still waiting, there’s still hope.</p>
<p>I agree! I am an international student and applied for full aid. I got waitlisted by nearly all my schools. (I haven’t heard from Andover yet. But it seems that I am not accepted.)
Is there a good chance to get off the list if I just ask for half aid or less aid???</p>
<p>I think that there might be a lot of waitlisters out there because based on what I’ve seen schools have, for the most part, accepted, rejected and waitlisted similar students. Schools will probably have some of their accepted class go to another school because the same people were accepted at a lot of places causing schools to resort to using their waitlists perhaps more than usual. This is what I think may have happened.</p>
<p>waitinggirl, sorry to see you having become a waiting girl. It’s a cute name. </p>
<p>If this is true, I mean the number of WL higher than the past, then the chance for waiting students would be less than the past. But in your case, since you have so many, hopefully one of them will work out for you at the end.</p>
<p>pepperjke, what you said is true every year, not just this year. It can’t explain.</p>
<p>FayMom, thanks! I hope I can get off at least one of the lists…</p>