@Trebuchet Thank you! Unfortunately, a visit isn’t possible anymore since I am extremely busy until the beginning of February and it would be too late by then.
Regarding what I said about FA, nothing concrete happened; it was just an inference I made. (However, my tour guide for Exeter last year told me that the first year he applied for 10 schools to 9th grade boarding with FA and got waitlisted/rejected from all, and he applied to the same 10 schools the following year without FA and got accepted to most.)