Good Scholarship Chances

cptofthehouse
Thu, 09 May 2013 09:10:32 +0000

BC gives out a limited number of 1/2 tuition scholarships. I don’t remember the number, but it is very, very small in relationship to how many kids they accept. Like 20 or so of them. It’s not just academic numbers they are looking for either, but diversity. They use the award to pull in the kids they most want for a lot of reasons. THose kids coming from “feeder” regions are going to have a tough go getting those awards as the line is around the city as for Catholic school kids wanting in at BC. They don’t have to buy those kids;they are for the picking.

Holy Cross has very few academic awards, and they, too, are difficult to get. As Mom2 says, applying to them is fine, but don’t count on any auto awards from those schools.

Cerjoo2, one my kids also got the $30K award. We were so impressed and then somber when we realized there was still that much to pay. Sigh.