<p>NY88 Great stats… you and your dd should be proud</p>
<p>I received some more financial news from Miami (ohio). I got a $10,000 diversity scholarship, and the university honors scholarship. Miami will only cost my family $3000 per year, with a little less than $2000 in loans. So I’ll probably go there.</p>
<p>celebrian25, Congratulations!</p>
<p>Woohoo celebrian25!!! And such a pretty campus. Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>Celebrian25, way to go!!! My parents both went to Miami, and it was always my dream school. (We moved out of Ohio before my senior year and couldn’t afford OOS tuition, so I didn’t end up there.) So I’m celebrating…with just a twinge of envy!</p>
<p>Celebrian25…You did a wonderful job in your college search and richly deserve the rewards you are reaping!</p>
<p>So many, many fine scholarships… It’s great to see this.</p>
<p>Northeastern just sent a letter offering my d. $40,000 ($10K freshman year & $5K every enrolled semester after that) to come to their school. Something “Excellence” award.</p>
<p>Just got my letter from the University of Maryland saying that I was awarded the Banneker/Key Scholarship! That’s a completely full ride covering tuition, room and board, and a book allowance. The prospect of going to college for free–it feels just as good as getting into Stanford did.</p>
<p>Calmom, more great news!</p>
<p>Somebodynew, A free college education: Priceless!</p>
<p>somebody new–congrats
i too got a free ride at a small liberal arts school. 120,000 worth of freedom. however, it has caused some stress (good stress) only because I got accepted to much better schools with a bigger and better choice of majors ( iam not sure what i ma going to major in), but with much less merit aid. and now i have to ask should i go for free to a lesser school, or pay 80,000 plus for a better school. what are you going to do?</p>
<p>somebodynew:</p>
<p>congrats!!! what are you going to do?</p>
<p>Calmom and Somebodynew!</p>
<p>Yea!!!</p>
<p>I got full tuition at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>I’ve got it all planned out. </p>
<p>I’m going to wait for my letter from Santa Clara, feel a tinge of disappointment when I don’t get a full tuition scholarship, mail out my “I will not be enrolling” responses to all my other schools except Stanford, attend admit weekend at Stanford (I’m not turning down a chance to miss three days of class to hang out at Stanford for a weekend)…then turn in my “I will not enroll” response to Stanford and confirm my enrollment to Maryland.</p>
<p>Though if by some stroke of luck I get full tuition to Santa Clara or this Washington Post scholarship that I applied for…my plan gets shot to hell.</p>
<p>jeepguy, congrats! That’s a lot of money.</p>
<p>Mom of Four’s daughter: Got Accepted 12 for 12</p>
<p>Background–D is nmf, 4.7 weighted GPA, 4.0 unweighted, class rank 3/462, ECs mostly concentrated in the fine arts (dance, theatre, flute) and Christian activities. Several Aps and IBs.</p>
<p>Baylor --full tuition, plus $3,000/year
Biola (private Christian college near us) - $7,000 /year
Duke
Pepperdine-- Regent’s scholarship $22,000/year
The College of New Jersey – Full tuition, room and board
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine - Regent’s scholarship $9,000/year
UCLA
UC San Diego - Regent’s scholarship $2,500/year
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Dallas – full tuition
USC (California not Carolina) --Presidential eg 1/2 tuition scholarship</p>
<p>Applying to 12 colleges was a lot but we were trying for Merit scholarships–hence no applying to any Ivies (using the Princeton calculator, we found out that D didn’t qualify for need based aid). I think we aimed accurately as D got scholarships at 8 of the 12. </p>
<p>We knew that she would get full tuition to Baylor, UTD, and TCNJ, which is why we applied to those three safties. We also knew that it was a crapshoot for the top 4 reaches --eg UCB, UCLA Duke and UNC Chapel Hill (she got in to all four, but did not get any merit aid).</p>
<p>The surprise in the mix was D getting the highest scholarship available to Pepperdine which is $22,000/year. . .approx 3/4 of the $31,000/year tuition.</p>
<p>Now comes the hard part – deciding. I think she is leaning towards Pepperdine though.</p>
<p>mom of four - great news on all the acceptances and the nice merit awards:)</p>
<p>congratulations to your d:)</p>
<p>Congrats to Mom of Four – I think your daughter is right, Pepperdine looks like the best offer of the bunch when you factor in quality of education. Though I’m surprised she is willing to give up so easily on Duke. (I am realizing for the first time how difficult it is going to be to turn down some of my daughter’s colleges… but she can only go to one. I just never expected we would come to this point with so many incredible choices)</p>
<p>My son is a regular, well-rounded guy with excellent grades (4.3 w), good SAT scores (2140) and is getting the IB diploma. I am listing only the merit portion of the awards, not work study, etc.
Carleton $23,000/year for 4 years with increases for cost of living, etc.
Colorado $20,000/year
Macalester $13,000/year</p>
<p>Lydia, does Carleton have merit awards? :eek: If so, I’m going to go slap myself silly for not knowing that. I thought it was just a couple grand for NMF , that’s all.</p>
<p>Calmom, </p>
<p>D is giving up on Duke because we didn’t get any merit aid and we can’t afford the $43/year price tag</p>
<p>. . .as we told our d when she applied, for Duke to be a viable option, she needed to get in and get a substantial scholarship.</p>
<p>But definitely D has wonderful options to choose from, esp since we live in Calif and have the UC system.</p>