Lets say that you get one of a number of the school’s merit awards, the Tom Smith Young Academics Awards at your safety/match, which is still a nice competitive college, just not at the level of your targets and reaches. This award gives you 12k per year off the 60k cost. Lets assume for you money is no object (not true for me but lets assume). Lets assume you are going into a field where prestige matters, eg Wall Street. Does getting a purely merit award with a nice name raise your pofile beyond the level of another student at the school with the same grades (in 4 years). Can you put this on your resume under your BA information if you end up going there
Definitely put it on your resume, but it may not help much. It’ll help a little. BTW, for the Street, grades are only one data point (it’s kind of like college admissions all over again, except this time, networking, street smarts, etc. also matter).
Thank you. To be honest I do not know that WS is where I want, it is just an easy reference point so that there is no sidetracking to depends on your major and how highly ranked that is and is a more prestigeous place really worth it.
I started feeling a little better about this acceptance because of the merit money not because of the money (it really is not enough) but because of what it said (to quote Sally Field, you like me, you really really like me)