<p>We also got a letter of acceptance from a local BS for our son who applied as a day student. Unfortunately, a few paragraphs later, it informed us that they could offer no FA. It was a bit of a shock, but I was glad they were so up front about it. </p>
<p>And with all due respect, Princess’Dad, you have no idea what other people can afford. For us, we’d have to give up our medical prescriptions and health insurance to pay full tuition. We haven’t had a family vacation or a new car in years. Fortunately, we got solid (and one very generous) FA offer from the other schools (all day schools) we applied to. They all called us ahead of time to let us know our son had been accepted and to let us know FA decisions would be made a week or two later, truly need-blind admissions. I think there are many, MANY families who fit that description. We hardly unique.</p>
<p>And, yeah, it was great to know our son was accepted everywhere we’d applied, but I would have rather not dragged him through the process if a school wasn’t going to consider us for FA even though we qualified for it.</p>