EA applicants hoping for decision on 12/15?

lisa6191
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:59:54 +0000

@kayleighbrown That’s what I want to find out. Based on what people are reporting here (which is admittedly a very small sample size), kids with his stats received significantly more than he did. I guess I just want to know the reasoning, although they probably won’t tell me much. It’s not so much what we “wanted” as what we expected based on the grid they publish, but we obviously made an incorrect assumption that the highest stat kids would receive the highest rewards. I certainly know that he is not “entitled” to anything and that $24,000 is a generous offer, but the fact remains that it is significantly lower than his other offers so we will have to decide what to do. It adds up to an additional $32,000+ over four years which is not nothing.

By the way, the released out of state tuition and fees for next year is $32,555. It’s interesting because several people whose kids are in the “half to full” tuition bracket have reported awards of $15,000, which is actually less than half tuition.

This definitely makes me appreciate the straightforwardness of the awards at University of Alabama, where my other son goes!