Marquis Fellowship

raincat
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:45:51 +0000

Thanks LucietheLakie for your straightforward and very accurate summary of how merit awards work. Tulane has been doing the same thing through their full-tuition Paul Tulane and Dean scholarships and other generous scholarships, which are largely awarded based on test scores. Not knocking this AT ALL, but it is disappointing when your kid is safely in the 25% of accepted students plus has the usual other outstanding personal qualities that we parents think sets them apart.

I’d like to also add that with Lafayette, and maybe other colleges (all?) I believe that the earlier you get the app and all FA aid docs in, the better. We were only able to visit Lafayette in Dec and also were at the deadline with CSS and IDOC, for reasons outside of our control. We received many emails from Lafayette saying that “lafayette may withhold your admission decision” based on the timing of our FA documentation. My son also happened to be outside of the US with no internet access, and even though he requested emails be sent directly to us, that did not happen.

Despite Lafayette coming late on our radar, it became a top choice, but without aid it will be a no go. Lessons learned for us going through this with DS1 so with the next one we will do it differently. Not too disappointed at this point