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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a very weird system to give the test and then require applications to go in totally blind - you have NO idea where your kid stands in terms of the scores. I don't understand it. The SAT and ACT scores come back in like 13 days. How could HSPT take so many weeks to score?

I can't speak to admissions but I do know that very high HSPT scores led to merit scholarships for my DD a few years ago at two DC Catholic girls' schools.
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My sons got offered zero merit awards, one 99 and one a 98.  I think at their high school the merit awards are parsed out by financial need.  That’s fine, but then don’t call it a merit award.[/quote]

Agree with both these posters. 3 kids in and its a scheme. For what I don't know..I think ADW wants kids spread out and not every 99 applying to Gz or whatever.

But to the 2nd poster, very wealthy schools do skew toward only FA because it makes little sense to give merit aid to wealthy people that can easily afford your school and when lots of your families are in fact wealthy.

Other (more diverse) schools have been skewing more toward FA for a different reason: Tuition is getting so high that everyone needs "something" so its a mark it up to mark it down...at the expense of big merit awards.

Living in a rich area...this is what it is.[/quote]

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