Applying somewhere nobody else from my school is applying to

You might find this episode below of Your College Bound Kid interesting. It’s an interview with a dean of admissions at Connecticut College. Yes, more competitive than Belmont. However, he describes how they think about admitting students from schools that don’t normally send many students. My take away is that it can be somewhat hard to predict how the school will act. If they think you’re not coming, then in theory they may not even accept you. Belmont may not be that aggressive. But then there’s also the question of what would it take (how much of a scholarship) for Belmont to yield you if they accept you. Seems there’s some behind the scenes math that takes place for that.

This is a long way of saying that I think you may struggle to predict how much scholarship you’ll get until they tell you.

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