antonuccia

my results
exeter,choate,st.mark's,and peddie rejection
accepted to blair and tabor
PROBLEM
No FA tabor scores you on 1 to 10 and only 8 and aboves do they give schlarships i got a 7. they told us you get all or nothing.they want my family to pay 40k when we have to support 7 people on about 100k
There is something wrong with this
what should i do
I want to go but can not afford it
Blair is reconsidering which is great

Msu

i am also mad.
Rejected at everything... waitlisted at milton.

Burb Parent

antonuccia -- Good luck with Blair! Go to their revisit day to show them how interested you are in the school. In fact, anything you can do to demonstrate interest might help.

Msu -- I'm sorry to hear that. If you feel like continuing your search, there will still be schools with openings after April 10 contracts are due. And good luck with the Milton waitlist.

antonuccia

Thanks hope everone goes somewhere or gets off waitlist

blairt

wait, tabor scores your desirability as a candidate and then if you get above 8, then you get a full ride?

antonuccia

basically yes from what they told us .Did you get in?

blairt

seriuosly? then how could their average financial aid grant be 21,000?

antonuccia

i dont know

D'yer Maker

Here's the deal with these humongous average FA awards that you see in the viewbooks and don't happen for anyone who posts on CC:

If you do not have an Internet connection, you get the muthaload. If you have an Internet connection, you're toast.

That pretty much explains things. And elegantly, if I may say so myself.

antonuccia

Yes pretty simple right.Not!!!How can i get FA when they lost my stuff and did not score high enough?

suze

Blair is the much better school so be happy. Everyone I know who's gone there loves it. It's respect is growing..

edconsultant22

antonucca,

I'm sorry you didn't get the FA that you wanted. I can assure you that the decision is usually very fair. When you say that your parents income supports 7 people, was that shown in the paperwork? For example, if these people are grandparents or cousins or someone that wouldn't enter into the calculation. If so, you should tell Blair about this situation, they might reconsider.

Also remember that programs such at Prep for Prep and ABC have many hundreds of low income students enrolled in boarding schools right now. ALmost all of those kids are very low income, many are on welfare. They are the ones who get the $25,000 scholarships.

I worked at one of those programs and can give you an example of how it worked. A student who had a mother on assistance and a sibling would have a yearly income of about $16,000. Or if they work in a minimum wage job, their income is around that level. EVen they would not receive a full grant from the school. Normally they would get aid of about $22,000 on tuition of $27,000 (when I worked in this field a few yrs ago, that was the tuition). So, these kids had to come up with about $5000. Luckily there are scholarship programs and benefactors who cover the difference.

I know that doesn't help your situation a lot, but might help you understand how it works. There are many, many low income applicants to boarding school--more than most of you can imagine. And that is where most of the aid money goes.

You have probably heard about the problem of the middle class--it's very real and a big concern. You could take out loans to cover the rest of the amount, but that can be a difficult thing to do.

Good luck as you try to negotiate. IF you apply again next year, there are a few schools which have merit scholarships, which might be helpful to you.

goaliedad

That is a great explanation, edconsultant.

Once you get out of the top 10 or 15 best endowed boarding schools, the money available in the scholarship pool is usually not enough to meet 100% of the need of all the admitted students with financial need.

I have seen 2 methods taken by schools to address this problem. The most typical solution is to offer something less than a match to the EFC. What this means is that if the tuition is $40K and the need as determined by SSS is $10K that they may only offer $8K in grant assistance. They will do a similar ratio across the board to all FA recipients. This puts a lot more strain on the families who do accept the aid, but also makes yield management more problematic.

Your situation is different. Tabor (if I am reading this correctly) gives a more generous FA offer to those who do get offers based upon a ranking system. This helps with their yield as the yes decision is easier (but not necessarily easy) for families receiving offers.

However, not every FA offer is accepted and when April rolls around, you may find that with that 7 score you may be receiving a FA offer.

I haven't seen your FA submission, but if there are any extenuating circumstances (health, special needs, etc) that were not clearly spelled out including the financial impact of those circumstances, do write a letter to the FA director with those details. The notes space in the SSS application is not adequate for explaining such information. It will definitely help you move up in that list come April. At this point, I think that is the best you can do outside of expressing your continued interest in accepting if FA is made available (so you stay on the waitlist).

antonuccia

i have 3 siblings in addition to me and 3 parents edconsultant

antonuccia

if blair gives me fa and i dont know till april on tabor i might miss my chance so why wait