Of 23,302 undergraduate students admitted for the 2024-25 school year, 13,822 students were admitted in “early action” decisions sent on Dec. 15, 2023, while 9,480 students were admitted in “regular decision” communications sent on Feb. 15.
My daughter is a senior, 33 act, 10th in her class of 300, gets $10,000 plus added merit every semester (she’s in honors. 4.0, applied at the last minute). She was in a LLC and found a great roommate (she visited the end of April and made her decision at the last minute). Tuition has increased every year, her off campus housing close to campus is $1400 a month in a 4 bedroom, it’s very hard to get on campus housing after freshman year. There are much cheaper rentals within driving distance, but parking on campus is an issue.
do you know if you can apply for honors at a later time? my daughter applied EA, but not honors…she did apply honors at Pitt and UD…wondering if she can submit later (pitt allows even after freshman year i think)
interesting table…this actually seems kinda generous if it is merit since they go down to the 1340/29 range…is this accurate in your experience? and thanks for sharing!
Yes she can, since my daughter was so last minute she applied freshman year and was accepted for 2nd semester (also got honors at UD, her sister graduated UD honors, and Pitt was either honors or scholars? She applied to 20 universities. Honors at Clemson is an extra $1000 a year, she thinks it’s worth it).
No problem. In our experience, my D was right in line with a 32 ACT, $8,000 merit offer in 2024. She also had an Honors college acceptance but no additional merit. And then we knew of the TO person who got $6,500 in 2023. We knew someone with 32 ACT in 2023 who got the $7500. Most people who posted in last year’s thread fell along these numbers. I can’t remember if there were people with 29 ACT getting aid, the chart falls off there, but if TO has the ability to get that, I would think there is a chance for ACT 29 to as well. Also, these are OOS numbers, not in-state. I believe SC offers different merit for in-state high stat kids, but I’m not familiar with all of it. I know palmetto fellows is one of those things. The way it worked last year is that you received wording in your initial acceptance that you would receive merit aid and that number was to be determined and notified at a later date. In our case, it was April 1 when we found out that merit amount. It was a long almost 4 months. lol
You’re welcome. And one more side note, last year the roll-out of FAFSA was a debacle so a lot of schools were later with financial aid packages. There’s a chance this year’s merit group might receive notification a little bit earlier. I think the year before it was more like March 1-mid March, but not positive. Other families from prior years can chime in if they received merit notifications earlier. Good luck!!
My '23 son who was accepted EA/OOS from CA (and attending) did not receive merit (GPA 4.44), and our understanding was that the SAT threshold had gone up (to 1400), whereas he was at 1360. Our current '25 applicant has a higher SAT (>1400), so fingers crossed both for acceptance and some merit this time around. Housing off campus is fairly affordable compared to some places
gives her something additional to submit if she is deferred to RD (anywhere). my same '23 son slacked his senior year, so all he had to submit (to deferred schools) were grades that were worse, on average, than the rest of his HS years
I’m amazed daily at how different all of my kiddos are - different talents and personality traits. Sometimes those slackers are the ones with successful leadership roles later on in life. My youngest definitely has the highest street smarts IQ of my crew even though she cares less about her studies. lol