As a general rule, I had noticed over the years that many of the Catholic schools had far more stringent requirements and limited seats for girls. I saw excellent female students shut out of schools like BC, Fordham, Fairfield, Providence who when males with much weaker academic profiles were being accepted with merit money. I’m not talking the huge scholarships or the more selective schools, but even the guys with <3.0 goals and 1200 SATs were gett $5k or less sweetness as well as acceptances at a number of Catholic colleges.
Several of the girls in my area looked at Catholic schools out of the east coast geographics after getting disappointing results EA. Many of them were accepted after the initial deferment but it was a wake up call for them. If you aren’t in the “A” list, getting merit money not likely to happen. Even the more ebulliently optimistic families got that message.
I’ve noticed with a lot of these schools, not just Catholic ones, that it’s very important when pursing a geographic advantage to emphasize directed interest in the school and come up with a real connection to the area and college. These schools often know their target market well, and are wary of those outside of it who may just be throwing a few outlier schools into their list, without seriously seeing themselves there.
I’m thinking of starting a NPC thread. The NPC came into existence well after I was active on the boards. They really cleared up a lot of uncertainties in the cost analyses ad comparisons among schools. But I’m curious now how accurate they’ve turned out to be