@Makeitrain15 I’m sorry, I thought you meant that you couldn’t attend the school for financial reasons, not the weekend. There also is an element of risk because not all Fellows programs award additional money to recipients (only Honors, Elon College and Teachers are guaranteed a scholarship, the rest are only for a small subset of the program participants). So yes, it is up to you whether you think you can go down and “win” the money from the other students. You guys need to look at the risk/reward payoff, depending on which programs for which you are competing.