Getting a little worried!

sovereigndebt
Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:19:04 +0000

Mom:

Thanks for that information. I am glad your kid got in and got money. But it underscores my point that Fordham financial aid is beyond quirky and biased. Its a private school and they can do what they want…and they do. My kid had SAT scores substantially higher than your kid, she had 9 AP’s and with all 5’s (I am not kidding) and an unweighted GPA of 3.9, in a nationally ranked public school here (southern state) and a BOATLOAD of her classmates went to Duke, Wake, UNC, UVa, Davidson, Furman, NCState. What did Fordham offer? A decent grant but NO merit aid. I know several stories from her classmates of kids who went to catholic schools in the tristate area or other cities and had scores below hers and they got scholarship money. Its very very vexing. We had to just bite our lip and move along…grrrr.

Elon is a very beautiful campus with an excellent reputation and increasingly a high percentage of kids from the northeast. Its Disciples of Christ by its formation but they are rather secular in how they run the school and no religious indoctrination occurs. They are very inclusive. They offered my kid a huge scholarship, but she had wanderlust to go far away and be in New York. So it goes.

Jack: I wont speak for Mom. But I suspect she feels like I do that you may risk being deferred EA with those grades Junior year. If you do apply EA, be prepared for that…don’t be bitter. And hang in there as they regularly take kids RD who were deferred EA. The EA kids who get in, tend to be in the upper part of the applicant pool and very high scores and grades. No harm in trying, but don’t be expecting miracles. Is it fair? I dunno. Depends on your perspective. Only you know what happened Junior Year. As I said, they will want to see your grades THIS semester and if they are As then you are probably good to go. Just saying.