FA & narrowing applications

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“Currently, the average financial aid grant covers 75 percent of the boarding tuition at Andover” Phillips Academy - Access & Affordability

I know for a fact that this section of the website hasn’t been updated this year, and it is inconsistent with what you can derive from average grant/tuition.</p>

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The problem untimately comes down not to size or endowment, but endowment per student.

Endowment and fiancial aid are not apples to apples.</p>

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is why last spring Andover granted only 31 (6.9%) of their accepted students full scholarships and raised their scholarship aid budget to new students by $7,100 (both from the Front Page | The Phillipian

What’s the point again? That Andover can’t afford or too stingy to support more full aid students, rather than indeed that’s the actual finanicial need that needed to be met?</p>

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The real point, which is missed, is all of these schools are doing their best to help students at all economic levels. We should applaud them all. For what they do with their resources.

Is this the conclusion of your write-up, or is it an after thought?</p>