Merit Scholarships

misterbill
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:25:27 +0000

Has anyone succeeded in getting more merit aid after the initial decision? My son has stats similar to the OP except his overall SAT is lower (but m/v is 1320). 4 AP’s with a score of 4 in soph/junior years, and taking 4 more this year. They accepted him into the honors program but only offered $3k. I stopped in to speak to someone in FA when we were at the accepted students open house on Saturday. He said he would have someone look at it and get back to me but obviously no commitment that they’d do anything (however, he did look up my son’s records when he went to get a business card for me, because when he returned and I mentioned that he was in the honors program, he said he had noticed that when he looked him up). I can hope :-).

In my son’s case, he has a $4k scholarship offer from SUNY Albany, which would be in-state tuition and way cheaper than UDel to begin with, plus a New York Regents Scholarship that he would be walking away from because it’s only valid for in-state schools.

Apparently none of the other kids in his school who got accepted to UDel got any money.