<p>Denison University will provide $17,500 per year-- $11,000 in scholarship, rest in work-study/student loans. My student has lopsided stats from a late-blooming attention to high school academics: very good SAT score, 6 AP classes, but GPA around 3.2 UW. No school clubs; regular, reliable, non-star club soccer player, lots of summer camp volunteer work.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the students who’ve received these fantastic awards - and to the parents who helped them all these years. Best wishes to all!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all your kids for being awarded such tremendous honours! Our daughters (twins) were definitive about going to university in the States and we have had one heck of a journey. We had no idea what American parents went through until this past year. But you should all be very proud of how supportive the American university system is. We have no private universities in Canada so we had no previous experience with the process…
so very different here.</p>
<p>However, our daughters were both awarded Presidential Scholarships at USC and we were totally delighted. We were not eligible at most US schools for any funding and USC made an overture that they could not resist.</p>
<p>Stats: SATs : 2280 and 2290; SAT II’s from 740 - 800 (three subjects), 5s in the two AP courses they took (their school offers only 3), GPA: unweighted 4.0; top 2% of their class, ec - art/debating/writing…</p>
<p>If we knew then, what know now, we would have started this process much sooner - they wrote their SATs once and the SATs IIs on the same morning -
my advice to others considering applying to the States is to start in Grade 9 and do more research. We started in the spring term of Grade 11…There were so many amazing universities and we just picked a few to apply to. </p>
<p>But nonetheless, it worked out extremely well for us - now we can afford to send the girls to graduate school!</p>
<p>Congratulations. Good job, much2much and great result. Plan the work, work the plan. There can be success stories in the merit process if you research well (or get real lucky like me;)). </p>
<p>This is a merit aid thread so I hope those who would be offended at what follows aren’t reading :eek:.</p>
<p>My D searched for merit aid and applied to 9 schools where her stats would be at least competitive for their very top awards, and very competitive for their half tuition and above awards. I did the math for the first time tonight and her scholarships averaged over $24,000/year with all but one school being 1/2 COA or better . COA for this purpose being defined as direct costs, tuition and all required fees + R&B. (The straggler was a not shabby 40%). The average scholarship was 64% of COA. 7 of the schools were less than our state flagships, and the other two preferentially packaged merit aid with “found” need to also beat the state schools. </p>
<p>All the schools met my D’s needs and most if not all of her wants. The schools were Hamilton, Scripps, Rhodes, Centre, Case Western, UMiami, Millsaps, Hendrix and Hanover. She would recommend all of them highly for families in our position (middle middle class w/ high stat kid) I can tell you from a parent’s perspective that the merit process was not THAT difficult to complete at these schools. </p>
<p>Juniors, and parents of juniors, all I’ve got left to say is - </p>
<p>“Get your motors running, head out on the highway…” </p>
<p>Good luck to y’all. I’ll be rooting from the cheapseats. P.M. me if there is some way I can help you.</p>
<p>$6000 per year from UNC Chapel Hill
$2000 per year from Emory
$5000 per year from Vanderbilt</p>
<p>all merit based scholarship money, I had no chance at need based, didn’t even bother applying for it.</p>
<p>best part is I turned it all down to go to Duke :)</p>
<p>Well, I’m not a parent, but I guess I’ll post. First of all, congratulations to you or your S’s/D’s on your/their merit scholarships!</p>
<p>I’ll be attending USC in the fall on a trustee scholarship (full tuition). I’m an international student so I wasn’t eligible for financial aid or merit aid at many schools, but USC gave me an incredible opportunity. I’m pumped to be a Trojan! And now, with the money I’m saving my parents, they’re going to pay for medical school :)</p>
<p>I’m not a parent either, but here’s how my merit money rounded out:</p>
<p>$8,000 per year at NEC
$8,000 per year at Northwestern
$20,000 per year at USC</p>
<p>I’m going w/ USC and I’m super pumped to be a trojan as well!</p>
<p>My son’s merit awards (NO FAid requested or received) were:
AzSU - full tuition, room & board 4 years $80,000 (or so)
Santa Clara U - 1/2 tuition ($15,000) + $2000/year = $68,000
USoCal - 1/2 tuition ($16000) + $2500/year = $74,000</p>
<p>He chose USC, where we expect he’ll be very happy as well.</p>
<p>My daughter was awarded a $3,000 corporate scholarship, renewable for the following three years. Thank goodness, because we qualify for no need-based aid and MIT is not inexpensive.</p>
<p>-I got $13,500/year from Rice(Trustee Distinguished Scholarship)
-Penn Leadership Scholarship which eliminated loans
-Sidney Frank Scholarship from Brown, which also eliminated loans</p>
<p>D was offered $15,000/year Leadership merit to attend Mt. Holyoke; she chose to attend another college that offered no merit (but adequate need-based aid). Has anyone noticed that colleges offering merit aid attract wealthy kids at the expense of equally capable and motivated poorer kids? Let’s at least acknowledge the inequity.</p>
<p>D was offered merit awards: 100% state school (FL), 50% tuition Univ of Miami, 50% GW, $10 K/year at Muhlenberg, 10.5K/year Lehigh, $16K/year Lafayette.</p>
<p>The top three school I am looking at are Case Western, Drexel and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Could someone please tell me about some scholarships the have received from these places and how? Thank You
Also is it too late to contact Guidance Counselor over summer to see if she would nominate me for the Medal Award at RPI?(I will be a senior in the fall) I would appreciate any new info. Thanks</p>
<p>Congrats. Just wondering what are your sons stats. high-achieving student, How high??? Gpa ? SATs? W&L Mom This question is for you. I’m new to posting not sure how this works…</p>
<p>Question</p>
<p>For all those of you that got these nice scholarships, did you get nominated or did you actually have to apply to them by person. And if you did apply by person, how did u find out about it</p>
<p>For the scholarships my son was awarded, you have to apply to attend the college by the college’s deadline for merit aid. What helped him greatly was being a NMFinalist. He only applied to a few outside scholarships (tho as his folks we would have been happy if he had tried for more, but he didn’t have enough energy). He was NOT awarded any outside scholarships anyway & doesn’t have any “need” according to formulas.</p>
<p>University of Georgia
(not to be confused with Georgia Tech)
Foundation Fellows scholarship: annual stipend of $14,000 for out-of-state students (in addition to a Regents Waiver for out-of-state fees), or $9,000 for in-state students (in addition to the HOPE Scholarship). Recipients also take part in scholarship-funded events such as international travel-study programs, dinner seminars, mentor relationships with faculty, research or conference activities, and the enhanced academic opportunities of the Universitys Honors Program.
<a href=“http://www.uga.edu/honors/fellows/[/url]”>http://www.uga.edu/honors/fellows/</a></p>
<p>As of today (still waiting to hear from more schools):</p>
<p>Hampshire College: 10k a year
Syracuse University: 12k a year
University of Vermont: 3k a year</p>
<p>Now if I could just hear from Bard…</p>
<p>At our high school the RPI Medal is given at the end of junior year I think. My son didn’t get it but was awarded the same amount of scholarship money from RPI. </p>
<p>Redwood - study the admission website of the schools where you plan to apply. Scholarship information will be easy to find. For some you have to submit a scholarship application, rec letters, essays, etc. Some schools offer numerous scholarships for which you must submit separate applications. At Georgia Tech you must apply for admission very early if you want to be considered for their big scholarship. For others there may be no application at all - they consider all students for scholarships.<br>
In other words, become very familiar with the process and requirements at your colleges, and pay attention to the deadlines.</p>
<p>Congrats to all parents, and thank you for posting this information. Good thing The Office and ER weren’t on tonight; by reading all 30 pages, I got many good ideas that I’ve copied into the now-extensive spreadsheet on which I’m tracking everything.</p>
<p>You give me hope that yeah, my kid just might get to go to college after all!</p>