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[quote=pbraverman][quote=Anonymous]The Catholic High Schools definitely talk mainly to ensure each parochial student gets at least one acceptance. Although I can't prove this it seems to me that also talk about FA so one school doesn't outbid the others especially for athletes. [/quote]

That could be the case; I have some experience with the ADW (Archdiocese of Washington) schools but not as much as with independents. I wonder if they take a different approach to financial aid because all of it is cleared through a central agency, rather than being allocated independently by school. About half of the ADW high schools use the HSPT (High School Placement Test) administered by the ADW; the other half don't require it and will accept the SSAT or ISEE. There's more information here:

http://adw.org/applying-catholic-high-school/

By the way, as recently as a few years ago the ADW schools used to permit permit applications to only TWO diocesan schools in a given year, but I can't tell from their site if that's still the case. Does anybody have more recent information?

Peter

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