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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero dollars[/quote]

Did you ask and were rejected or were you given the impression that additional financial assistance was not an option?[/quote]

Most parents at private school are full pay.  Parents who have their act together can afford the tuition.  Why would we have to ask?[/quote]

So it sounds like your DC wasn't good enough to be offered anything?  But they are considered recruited because they wouldn't have gotten in without athletic ability?  Sorry, I'm learning more and more that  being recruited doesn't mean the same across schools and sports and even within the same school team.[/quote]

No…it’s that it seems 99% of schools are honest when they say they don’t provide athletic scholarships which is the case even with WCAC schools.

Now…the sport may get a FA kid accepted at which point their financial situation determines their FA…and there are quite a few athletes that qualify for full FA.

Also, if a top athlete qualified for any FA, then it’s easier to get more FA after explaining “special circumstances”.

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Thank you! That makes sense.

It sounds like “special circumstances” is prob a conversation that is happening only for some athletes. [/quote]

I'm the PP above whose kid got a lot of aid, and I think it's important to note that many of the private schools in the area don't meet every student's need.  They are either need aware, so a student who needs a lot of aid is less likely to get in, or they are need blind but sometimes make offers of admission without needed aid because they have run out of money.

If a school has 4 applicants that all seem like good candidates but need 90% aid, and they can only afford to offer one spot with that level of aid, they might offer that spot and aid to an athlete.  It's not merit aid exactly.  The school can say that they were only meeting need.  But the kid still got the aid in part due to their athletic skills.  [/quote]

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