<p>Daughter only got a $6000 scholarship even with two perfect SAT scores. Oh well, it wasn’t her first choice anyway.</p>
<p>fiskelove - and your FAFSA EFC was what? Just curious, I had heard USC does real well with need based aid. Anyway, with perfect SATs why worry?</p>
<p>She didn’t have perfect PSAT scores so she just missed being a National Merit Scholar. That means the $6,000 scholarship is it for us.</p>
<p>Lol… it’s not rare to see people with two perfect SAT scores (I’m assuming you are talking about SAT IIs). And what AFA007 said - USC does well with need based; you didn’t answer the question about your EFC…</p>
<p>They were SAT I scores and our EFC is $26,000.</p>
<p>Same, I’m pretty disappointed in my financial aid package too! I got about $10,000 in scholarships + loan…so that brings USC’s lovely price tag down to like $40k…</p>
<p>Looks like I’m going to have to say goodbye to USC now :(</p>
<p>I feel your pain. The main reason I encouraged my daughter to apply to USC was because I’d heard it gave good merit aid. I thought she was a perfect merit candidate!! She got into Berkeley, UCLA, Duke and won full tuition Regents scholarships at UC Santa Barbara, Davis and Santa Cruz. Oh well, I figure it’s USC’s loss!</p>
<p>USC had double the applicants it had 4 years ago. Although they are still pretty generous, they have their limits also. Candidates are increasingly qualified and competitive.</p>
<p>how did she miss the NMF score cutoff and get a perfect score on the SAT? what class did she take? and how do you get 2 perfect scores, do u take it 2 differnet times?</p>
<p>One of my kids did that. Was a Commended Scholar, but followed it up with a 800,800,710 on the SAT1. It happens.</p>
<p>does anyone know what the qualifications of getting the Trojan Scholarship and the University Scholarship were? I can’t find these in the list of scholarships.</p>
<p>I see your daughter’s SAT was 800CR, 800W, & 630M (2230) and that she applied to Annenberg. You have to keep in mind that plenty of kids (& on CC) get in that range of SAT scores that apply to Annenberg-- and though they get notified early, don’t get a particularly big scholarship because it is so competitive. IMO Annenberg seems to be one of the hardest schools to get a rather large scholarship from. The only Presidential/Trustee scholarship interviewee I’ve seen that applied to Annenberg had a 2300+ SAT.</p>
<p>ann thats interesting…makes sense i applied to annenberg</p>
<p>im NMF so i get presidential if i get accepted…im a little concerned that i wont get in jsut cause they dont want to pay the half tuition that NMFs are guaranteed</p>
<p>It’s OK, we’ve recovered. She got a $20,000 scholarship from Duke yesterday which is her first choice. Duke has been her dream school since seventh grade. So we’re very happy here!!</p>
<p>congrats. like most schools, USC has to adjust their offers based on their applicant pool. the more they want a particular student & the more money the U has to spread around, the larger the amount they can offer in grant or scholarship rather than loan. USC has become increasingly competitive. glad to hear kids have many options.</p>
<p>wow regents at santa barbara, davis and cruz isnt very convincing.</p>
<p>Trojansfighton–So glad you’re going to USC and my daughter is not. Hope you enroll in a course in Humility while you’re at it.</p>
<p>i just got my financial aid package. :[</p>
<p>apparently USC expects us to sell our house so that i can attend USC.</p>
<p>sorry to hear that bryan :(</p>
<p>guess beard is blueeee after all</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>haha, hahah… hhahahah… hhaha :)</p>