Merit Scholarships

fallenchemist
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:21:30 +0000

Who told you that your new scores would not be used to make a decision? I have never heard that. When information, whether it be new test scores, a new recommendation, winning a big award, etc. is received it goes into your file. They don’t just let it sit there in a box. So when the admissions officer picks up the folder to make the decision, they will see the information. That is probably one reason Tulane almost always waits to defer candidates until the last minute of the Dec 15 notification date.

Now that is different than saying when new scores will be used to reconsider merit aid. There have been several instances where a student was accepted and got a merit award (or didn’t get one at all at this point) and then got much better test scores. Reconsideration of that student for a larger award, or any award if they didn’t get one, will not happen until later, per the link I gave above. But that is not the same at all as an admissions decision.

That, at least, is how I have seen it in the past, and frankly not looking at the updated scores for an admissions decision would make no sense to me. I wonder if you misunderstood.