I’m applying to Episcopal, Andover, Exeter, Lawrenceville, Taft & St. Andrews. All boarding. All full financial aid required. I am a first gen student.
If full FA is required, I would consider adding a few more schools, just to increase the odds of attending.
I would also remove your name from the post. It’s best here if you are anonymous.
I can’t chance you because I’m new here and my son is applying also, so we haven’t been through the process yet.
You sound very thoughtful and engaged with your education. Good luck!
Agree – add a few schools with much higher admit rates! This advice is true for just about anyone, but especially true if you need full financial aid. Only a couple of schools are need blind, the others allocate their limited money to kids they especially want. So if you would help bring their student profile up (eg your ssat is much higher than the school’s average) your chances of being admitted improve.
I have one safety: Baylor school, but didn’t mention it because I’m totally sure I’ll get in on their scholarship. But, do you think anything in my app is weighing me down? I’m looking for comments to brace me for march’s decisions.
I have one safety: Baylor School. But, I think I’m definitely getting into Episcopal and Taft and my income bracket legally is like comically low (<25,000) so I don’t know if more schools would benefit me holistically.
I don’t know anything about Episcopal, but you definitely are not definitely getting into Taft. You might, but Taft is a difficult admit.
Legally, as opposed to?
With an income that low, you need to consider widening the net to include schools that you overmatch with. You have to be impressive enough to justify rejecting others that need financial aid.
Their acceptance rate is 19 percent, pretty high in comparison to others. Compared to Andover and Exeter, I have more a definite chance at Taft. I see it as one of my targets. At the same time, I see no reason I’m not a very competitive applicant at all the schools I’m applying.
I don’t understand what you’re conveying in the last sentence.
I mean legally as in my income is under that amount but I live a slightly more classy lifestyle because of certain family support-systems.
You are a real go-getter! And I am sure you will be successful in life. You are also a strong boarding school candidate. There is one factor that throws a bit more uncertainty into an already uncertain process. That is your high financial need.
I agree that on academics, from my quick look, Baylor is more of a safety. But they do not meet full need :-(. You may have other info that makes you confident of 100% need met. But without any special circumstances there’s a decent chance they may be unaffordable.
As to the others, a school that rejects 80% of its applicants is no one’s safety or target. Especially since the school is need aware with it’s admissions decisions.
If you were my child, I would see if there’s time to apply to a few more schools where you are wildly overqualified, and especially consider single sex schools.
People are cautioning you because we want you to get accepted to an affordable school, and right now there’s the chance that you may not. No matter what, good luck!
Fortunately, I’ve already applied to Baylor’s Cartter scholarship which has the possibility of full-aid. 7 schools was actually all that I could manage skirting by with though. My mother is vehemently against boarding school and wants to take no part in my applications. Though, she’s only allowing it because she’s aware it’s what’s best for me. The way I see it, if I can’t get into the seven schools I’ve picked, I most likely will not get into any others with similar acceptance rates.
I thank you for the advice though. I just don’t see it to be in my capacity to apply to more schools or for it to be totally nessacary. Finalists for the Cartter are announced in like 3 days so I’ll modify my list based on that decision.
I believe most schools ask for and consider those other means of support when an applicant requests financial aid.
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