Interesting article on academic vs. athletic recruiting

Columbia_Student
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:53:36 +0000

ParentOfIvyHope:

Princeton offered interest free 4 years expenses with a personalized letter from department head. Cornell sent her a likely in early February with many more letters afterwards. Rice offered $20,000 with a research grant of $4000 and a mentor, Full tuition at USC, even UCB/UCLA gave Regents/Alumni scholarships.



Did USC bump up the dollar amount after you posted here?

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062811104-post413.html



parentOfIvyHope D:Caltech (EA), MIT (EA), Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Rice ($25K), JHU, Duke, Olin, CMU, UC B,LA,SD, USC ($15K)
pmcmscot D: Done: Saint Michael’s College, with a very, very sold merit offer. Also: Drew (EA) (Global scholarship); Goucher (EA), Univ. of Vermont (EA) ($5K OOS merit award), George Mason Univ. (EA), Roanoke College (EA) ($25K/year), Fordham (just accepted from waitlist), Loyola Maryland (removed herself from priority waitlist)
pren S: University of Vermont; UCONN presidential scholarship; St. Michael’s College Presidential Scholar; Providence College, Stonehill College
PRJ’s D: Indiana University-Bloomington, Tulane, Brandeis (ED)
peacemkr59’s S: University of Central Florida
pierre0913: attending Clemson University; also accepted:University Of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus, University Of Massachusetts - Amherst (free in-state tuition) Northeastern University ($14,000/year scholarship), Purdue University - West Lafayette, Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University aka Virginia Tech (Honors program)
pumkin65’s D Washington College (Washington College Scholar), Ursinus College (Ursinus Scholar), Mary Washington (Honors, w/merit), Saint Joseph’s University (Presidential), Gettysburg (Founder’s), Goucher (Global Citizen), University of Maryland, College Park, University of Delaware (Honors, w/merit), St. Mary’s College of Maryland (Presidential), College of Wooster (Dean’s Award)