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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The basic answer is no. None of the top independent schools (GDS, Maret, STA, NCS,Sidwell etc) give merit aid. They save their money for need based financial aid. They have enough highly qualified applicants that they don't need to recruit with merit aid. It's the same case for highly selective colleges. Most merit aid is used at less selective schools trying to recruit top talent. The Ivys get that talent anyway, just like the top private schools.[/quote]

Sad that some save it to recruit better basketball players.  Yes, they qualify for aid, but they are recruited first for their ability to play ball.  Meanwhile the families with smart kids who are struggling to pay the tuition have to pay full freight.  I guess an intellectual contribution to the school isn't as valuable as being #1 in a team sport.[/quote]

It not true that they don't recruit for academics.[b] For HS the ones I know about were recruited due to PSAT scores[/b]. One hired a company to negotiate the scholarship.

Another aced his SATs and that family hired a company to manage the college applications and scholarship offers.[/quote]

Why are they taking PSATs in 7th or 8th grade?  Kids who take it for CTY take the SATs, not PSATs.

There are tons of kids at my DCs school who are getting over 2300 on the SATs and they are not awash in scholarship offers.  2300-2400 is the minimum required to apply to the most selective schools and doesn't come close to guaranteeing admission, much less a merit scholarship.  I know 3 kids who got 2370s (which means they got one question wrong), had great grades and everything else, and were rejected from several of their top choice schools.  One got a $10k/year scholarship offer to attend a good state school (from OOS) but that was it.

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