Hi all -
From what I understand from our admission councilor, all school scholarships/merit have been awarded for the fall 2020 school year.
I was told that only federal aid was to be awarded If any (if you completed FAFSA).
Follow up: below is exactly what I was told about a month ago:
“In terms of merit scholarships, those have all been issued for Fall 2020. However, need based financial aid (FAFSA driven) packages will be released around April 1st and you will be notified as such by our Office of Financial Aid.“
@fclspat
By the way, Congrats on Syracuse! And Univ of SC.
Nice to have options ?
Anyone see any Financial Aid info posted yet? It takes so many drop down buttons and things that I’m tired of checking (over the past few months…lol). Just trying to eliminate schools as we can if they are cost prohibitive so we can notify the schools in case it helps their waitlist applicants.
@OceanIsle I’m wondering the same thing. This financial aid is the last thing we are waiting for, so a decision can be made. I’m really hoping it gets sent out today!
I posted earlier today…the below was from our admission counselor from about a month ago:
“In terms of merit scholarships, those have all been issued for Fall 2020. However, need based financial aid (FAFSA driven) packages will be released around April 1st and you will be notified as such by our Office of Financial Aid.“
I was told recently all the merit awards have been given out.
@jgwolf
Correct. My Ds admission counselor confirmed in early March that all merit awards for Fall 2020 have been given out.
Only financial aid may still be available if you completed FAFSA. And expected notifications of that will be “around” 4/1.
I posted this earlier today.
So will we get an email from USC when our financial aid has been posted or will it just be in our self service carolina portal?
From another thread. Saying yes to this waitlist offer is not officially binding. And a deposit is not requested. Saying yes will get you an official acceptance letter and upto May 1 to commit.
Worth noting, once you click yes (and before clicking the commit button on this waitlist form) you will see your major.
I am assuming zero merit.
Zero merit at S.C. (as an OOS) is cheaper than $10k merit from Syracuse.
Has anyone seen financial aid posted anywhere yet?
@Jlh0204 ,
I keep checking (including just now) and it’s still not there; however, earlier today it did prompt us to click a button saying we give permission for information to be sent electronically. Then nothing came after that.
@OceanIsle
How are you checking your financial aid?
@animallover345 ,
Through the online portal they sent after admission. There is a tab for Financial Aid.
@OceanIsle are you talking about the self service Carolina portal?
@animallover345
Yes, that is were it would be.
My Ds counselor told us it would be posted (if the student was getting any federal aid) around 4/1. No specific date was given other then early April.
All school merits/scholarships have already been awarded. Only federal still to go.
Hi @Lacole03. Is your daughter still on the fence or has she decided? My daughters waitlist at UofSC just came thru and while we have not 100 percent decided, I think we may be burning our $995 Syracuse deposit shortly (well the daughter will have to buy her mom a nice gift when she gets her first real job to make up for the lost $).
Does UofSC typically give any need-based aid beyond the Federal aid? We have found that schools have varied greatly in this area.
Do we know if federal aid as been posted for anyone yet? Our portal is blank. Hopefully we know by the end of the day and it doesn’t drag out until next week.
Still blank for us too. I wish if the April 1st date had changed (and of course I understand that the world has been going through a lot) that they could have taken the time to send an email. Oh well.