Guaranteed Merit Award

mom2collegekids
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:47:48 +0000

If you applied for admission and scholarship (and put Engineering as major!!! make sure about that!), then you will get some notification about Presidential scholarship in the mail. I think the Presidential scholarship info comes a few weeks after acceptance is received.

However, I would write to scholarships at ua.edu and request confirmation that they have received your DD’s scholarship application and her best scores…

I have 2 sons there now…one on National Merit and one on Presidential & Engineering. We almost made the mistake of missing out on eng’g scholarship by having the wrong major listed on his application. We formally changed that to engineering in time to qualify for that scholarship, too.

BTW…both boys love it there. This is DS1 3rd year and DS2 1st year. Both are in honors dorms.

And for the another person’s question…UA does NOT refigure HS GPA…it takes whatever your HS puts as the highest score…including weighted. UA doesn’t even remove religion or PE grades from the HS GPA. UA does not “superscore” SAT or ACT.