bjjacohen

I believe in asking for merit money if you believe your level of achievement should get it. I've seen people get their merit award raised and I have a personal story where my son went from no merit aide to $17,500 per year. My son's story raises an issue that I haven't seen on a post which is that a college could make a mistake the first time they reviewed your application. Without mentioning the school's name, my son applied to his safety schools, his targets and his reaches. A safety, where we knew that merit awards were given to select students, sent back an acceptance but with no merit money. I called them, they pulled up my son's information, and we went over the criteria for getting merit money, comparing it with my son's record. The result of the call, which I followed up with an email, was that the school formally reviewed my son's materials again and sent him a letter with the highest level merit scholarship they give. So the lesson here is two-fold. First, the school could have made a mistake, and second, that if there's a reason to, a school will often review an applicant's records a second time.