<p>I got accepted to foxcroft with zero financial aid. I still have to wait on another school but should I have my mom call an appeal our situation, being that it quite unique? Please help.</p>
<p>Ya I would call and beg…why not.</p>
<p>Hmm… what’s your income bracket? I ask because they either didn’t believe you deserved it and saved for the poorer folk, i.e.; less then 50K, or simply don’t have enough. </p>
<p>I mean, I don’t see the harm in appealing it. What exactly is it that makes your situation so ‘‘unique’’?</p>
<p>Was it a surprise to you that you didn’t get FA? Did the form SSS sends out list your estimated family contribution as $0?</p>
<p>If you don’t think the school understood your situation, then I would appeal. We appealed to one school last year and they changed their offer, although we didn’t end up selecting that school.</p>
<p>SSS never sent us a form</p>
<p>Oh ****… we didn’t get one either.</p>
<p>I hope this doesn’t mean that I’ll get zero FA.</p>
<p>I don’t specifically know about Foxcroft but every school my S applied to required the SSS form to be completed. </p>
<p>I would definitely call and make sure they received all the information that they needed from you to make their decision.</p>
<p>That being said, financial need does not guarantee aid being offered. Last year my S was accepted to a school that did not offer him any aid. The SSS had said that we should have received more than half the cost of the school. But we got nothing. You have to remember that it is a private school and they can do whatever they want when it comes to admittance and the offer of financial aid.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>You should have received an EFC (expected family contribution) statement from the SSS. If you didn’t or you cannot locate it, you should call the SSS right away.</p>
<p>If you have “off the written book” then you should. Let’s say you support your grandparents but you can’t put that info on the form… Tell them. See if any people that got FA decided to take another school’s offer.</p>
<p>You only get an EFC report sent to your home if you request it at the time you submit the form
I think it costs an extra 13 bucks</p>
<p>This is not a year to ask for aid because you support grandparents. All of the schools are under pressure to support existing and newly accepted students in these troubled times and can’t make the kind of exceptions they have in the past.</p>
<p>Schools like Foxcroft don’t have huge endowments and their aid is limited. You will probably be better off in the hands of the large endowment schools this year.</p>
<p>That sucks, that happended to me last year and I didn’t get to go…</p>
<p>I got my waitlist letter from one school 'cuz of aid as well… We did get the SSS statement, but I don’t want to say how much 'cuz of privacy issues of course.</p>
<p>Do waitlist applicants get their letters early or something?</p>
<p>Sadly, if your family has no other money to put into your boarding school … you probably won’t be able to attend. I’m just saying that in general. Everything varies per family. Good luck with FA.</p>
<p>When you don’t get FA, you don’t go and you move on. There isn’t much else to it. It sucks, but it’s the truth. Especially in these hard ecomnomic times, as people have pointed out time and time again, FA is going to be hard to come by.</p>
<p>But, if they choose other applicants that are far qualified, then that applicant must’ve applied to many other schools as well. If they were very desirable, then they may get FA from all the schools they applied to-- so they could decide not to go to the school I want to go to-- but that would be hard to come by nowadays.</p>
<p>I thought I had posted…but I don’t see that post. My son was accepted without fa year before last. He needed a large amount, so I was not surprised. No matter how desireable a candidate may be, most schools have a limited amount of aid. Do not throw in the towel. Apply again next year. You will likely not be turned down twice for lack of fa. Generally, if you are able to maintain your grades you will be accepted with aid the following year (our school told us this and, indeed, it was so).</p>