Anonymous wrote:Just to be perfectly clear, in the DC area only St. Albans has need-blind admissions and meets demonstrated financial need. Nationally, Andover (but not Exeter), St. Andrews, and Roxbury Latin are the only other schools that do so.

Not St Andrew’s in Potomac, the boarding school named St Andrew’s

Just to be perfectly clear, in the DC area only St. Albans has need-blind admissions and meets demonstrated financial need. Nationally, Andover (but not Exeter), St. Andrews, and Roxbury Latin are the only other schools that do so.

Most local schools are not need blind, they can’t be when they can provide aid to only 20 to 25 percent of class.

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Anonymous wrote:SIdwell will waitlist if no money is available. I know of a kid who got waitlisted at many schools because he needed too much aid. Great kid, all around high achiever coming from a k-8.

What is the benefit of being waitlisted if there is no aid?

Perhaps the hope is a similar student who was accepted with aid chooses a different school and so a spot with aid becomes available?

But usually it means zero.

This is correct.

Schools have a Financial Aid budget. They distribute the money as a way to fill their classes, similar the way that airlines have different fares to fill airplanes.

As the PP said, how much aid money is left when they go to the waitlist depends on which of the families accepted the offer of admission.

Anonymous wrote:Many advertise themselves as need-blind, as in it does not factor into admissions decisions. Whether or not you get as much FA as you need is another story.

I don't know any schools that say they are need blind except STA.

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Anonymous wrote:SIdwell will waitlist if no money is available. I know of a kid who got waitlisted at many schools because he needed too much aid. Great kid, all around high achiever coming from a k-8.

What is the benefit of being waitlisted if there is no aid?

Perhaps the hope is a similar student who was accepted with aid chooses a different school and so a spot with aid becomes available?

But usually it means zero.

This info should be on the schools' websites. At least it is for GDS. I'd advise looking at the actual sites rather than going by what you read here.

Anonymous wrote:SIdwell will waitlist if no money is available. I know of a kid who got waitlisted at many schools because he needed too much aid. Great kid, all around high achiever coming from a k-8.

What is the benefit of being waitlisted if there is no aid?