Tuition Assistance

Please Note: Tuition Assistance for 2012-2013 has been awarded.

The Tuition Assistance Calendar

November 1, 2011

• Online access to SSS’s website for information/guidance, forms, and instructions toward PFS electronic filing begins. Go to: http://sss.nais.org/

February 10, 2012

• Deadline to complete and submit electronically to SSS your online PFS and the following: (a) 2011 W-2(s)/1099(s) and (b) 2010 Form 1040 with all filed schedules and attachments.

• NOTE: The Tuition Assistance Committee considers in its initial meeting ONLY applicants who’ve met all submission requirements by posted deadlines.

February 24, 2012

• Notification of 2012-2013 tuition assistance awards and denials, via letter from Abintra, begins.

Abintra's Tuition Assistance Program

Inspired by the initiative of upper elementary students in 1994-1995 who donated allowance money to begin the tuition assistance program, Abintra remains committed to aiding students of long-standing attendance in the event of unforeseen financial circumstances and, when funds allow, reducing the cost of tuition in order to make the school accessible to more students.

The school's need-based tuition assistance is designed to be a short-term rather than long-term strategy; the program depends on year-to-year Board of Trustees’ budgetary support and designated gifts primarily from the school’s constituents. Although commitment to a student’s continuing education is an underlying guideline of our program, the total amount of assistance the school is able to budget from year to year varies, and no recipient’s current award can be guaranteed in future years.

Abintra promotes objectivity and consistency in tuition assistance awards, and bases its decisions on the premise that the primary responsibility for financing a student's education rests with the student’s family, and, to the extent that they are able, every family should use all of their available resources to contribute toward the cost of receiving education at the school and to maintain a current account.