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curmudgeon · 09-19-2005, 02:58 PM

GC is a guidance counselor, you are too late for junior awards (but right on time for everything else), the junior awards I know about are from Wells College, Centre College, RPI, and Furman. There may also be one at Presbyterian in South Carolina.They range from $4,5,6/yr to $15/year. Significant at Wells , Centre, and RPI but just nice at Furman.

D will apply to Bowdoin . (Her one need only school. Waiting for a miracle. She deserves to dream. LOL.) Scripps and Hamilton, who have very, very limited merit possibilities. Centre, Rhodes, and Hanover Colleges who can be very generous to students they want and who want them. D will also apply to a large instate, Texas Tech, which presents a potentially wonderful possibility and a nice Honor's College , and she gets an automatic scholarship for $4k a year, plus auto first year tuition waiver. And to the Barksdale Honors College at Ole Miss where she should receive a $2k/yr OOS tuition waiver off a very reasonable sticker price .She will be competitive for one of a very few $6k/yr scholarships.

She will also apply to one or two more that I don't care to jinx at the moment as she is wavering but I have my fingers crossed that she will come through.

P.S. Don't pay a lot of attention to my magic number of 1500. It just seems from what I am finding that an inordinate number of kids receiving major merit awards had SAT scores that start with a 1 and a 5. New SAT number? I'd have to guess 2250 for those schools who are treating the writing as a full-fledged section. But most are saying they won't.

09-19-2005, 02:58 PM	#216
curmudgeon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,962	GC is a guidance counselor, you are too late for junior awards (but right on time for everything else), the junior awards I know about are from Wells College, Centre College, RPI, and Furman. There may also be one at Presbyterian in South Carolina.They range from $4,5,6/yr to $15/year. Significant at Wells , Centre, and RPI but just nice at Furman. D will apply to Bowdoin . (Her one need only school. Waiting for a miracle. She deserves to dream. LOL.) Scripps and Hamilton, who have very, very limited merit possibilities. Centre, Rhodes, and Hanover Colleges who can be very generous to students they want and who want them. D will also apply to a large instate, Texas Tech, which presents a potentially wonderful possibility and a nice Honor's College , and she gets an automatic scholarship for $4k a year, plus auto first year tuition waiver. And to the Barksdale Honors College at Ole Miss where she should receive a $2k/yr OOS tuition waiver off a very reasonable sticker price .She will be competitive for one of a very few $6k/yr scholarships. She will also apply to one or two more that I don't care to jinx at the moment as she is wavering but I have my fingers crossed that she will come through. P.S. Don't pay a lot of attention to my magic number of 1500. It just seems from what I am finding that an inordinate number of kids receiving major merit awards had SAT scores that start with a 1 and a 5. New SAT number? I'd have to guess 2250 for those schools who are treating the writing as a full-fledged section. But most are saying they won't. Last edited by curmudgeon; 09-19-2005 at 03:12 PM.