What criteria does High Meadow School (HMS) use to allocate financial aid grants?

Yes, you may file a financial aid grant application after January 20th, 2025. However, your application will be considered after all applications that are received by the deadline, and you will not receive priority that is given to families of returning students. The school will not be able to guarantee that a package will be awarded, and the package may be smaller than needed after the filing deadline has passed.

It is the school’s goal to ensure that the entire budget for financial aid grants is used on a yearly basis, and we give until our budget line runs out. After the re-enrollment deadline, we will reallocate financial aid grants and work exchange money for students who received packages but did not enroll. We will add it back into our financial aid grant and work exchange budget lines. This money will be used to award financial aid grants or work exchanges to other applicants. If there is still money in the budget when a family changes their mind, there is a chance that they could be awarded their original package, but there is no guarantee that money will be left.