ApTester

If you're getting a full ride, scholarships are not going to help. You're going to report them and the school will just end up lowering what they are currently giving you.

happymomof1

The better question might be to ask why you were awarded this particular scholarship from your university, when all your other applications were rejected. Would it not have been more logical to be rejected by all?

Unless you meet someone who sat on the committee, and who specifically recalls your individual application, there is no way for you to get answers to your questions about this.

mom2collegekids

"I got a full ride at my school."


Yes...so maybe the scholarship committees realized that and chose others who needed the money.

If you had gotten the scholarships, you would have gotten NOTHING because your Ivy would have lowered their award by the same amount.

romanigypsyeyes

If you got a "full ride" then WHY are you applying for scholarships? Or why do you care that you didn't get them?

ljfromwarning

I also look into the networking aspect of the scholarships. Some would allow me to travel, some would pay my education up to PhD. Why not?

Elleya

I dunno, reading this thread kind of disgusts me a little. Full ride to an Ivy and groveling about lack of scholarship money?

Man, what i'd do for a full ride at a college...