Yeah, there are many schools that have rolling decisions. Honestly, it’s so hard to get scholarships these days. It becomes harder and harder as the years go and as need has grown as well because of tuitions increasing as it has so abruptly in the last 15-20yrs. Plus, my child read that 2007 was a boom with a lot of births. By the time these late march school release decision, scholarship has become less likely. It’s especially troublesome since universities are so worried about what’s happening with the administration because they don’t know about their budgets. With grants getting hit, they are trying to reserve money. That means less institutional scholarship/grants as merit. I think a lot of families are about to be shocked. In NC NCSU and UNC receive the bigger $ of the other system schools. Still, it’ll be interesting to see. It’ll be offered to less students likely and upperclassman especially. Schools like UNCG etc probably aren’t offering much if anything but loans. I believe back in the day (90s) NCSU was a rolling decision school. My husband was accepted in a few weeks from sending in his app. I’m guessing this changed because of how many apply each year and admissions would be bombarded with calls 24/7. So, it’s done on various set dates.
I think deferred moves to RD, right? Notification date says March 30th at latest, but will likely be the 21st or 28th.
FWIW, Scholarships at NC State are unlikely no matter what. Mine was accepted EA and into the honors college and was not given any merit. Schools like NC State and UNC have so many qualified students, they don’t really need to give merit to very many students, and those who get it usually fill an institutional priority.
The schools we saw the most merit from in NC were UNCW and UNCA. Also got some from UNCC and App State.
My older son at NCSU got $2000 for merit and $400 for tuition merit his first and second years plus a dependents scholarship and he’s not priority or need based. I was glad he got it again and attributed it to his 4.0. The indiv departments/colleges can give small ones too and random year. It still happens, you just can’t count on it for more than a year. Won’t know about next year until after he’s register for classes. My other son was offered nothing but loans from UNCG. I mean nada. Was expecting a little something. Even $1000 a semester. They accepted him 2 weeks after he applied. Seemed to really want him because his stats are so high, but a lot has happened to the nation since November. I was told it was literally because the schools are freaked about money and not giving it away like they did. UNCG said had he applied honors he could have gotten scholarship but it would have only covered the extra classes. No thanks.
It’ll be the 28th.
Yeah I have heard UNCG (surprisingly) gives very little merit.
Has anyone started to try any of the hacks like trying to see if your unity ID works or if you are able to register for any of the student events, or is it still too soon?
Idk but personally I don’t like the thoughts of doing that stuff. It causes more stress. Some people got into the packportal, saw tiles, but no AED in the past. The AED never came. I just advise against any false hope or screwing something up or finding anything misleading. A few weeks isn’t going to help you get scholarship anywhere. If you managed to hack in you could end up worrying for 2 weeks that what you think is a win isn’t or opposite.
Before people go and hack etc, please be careful.
I know people are really excited and a lot of us really worried because so much is riding in this decision. We have lost sleep. For us, and my child, this is a big deal. I know many aren’t as narrowed in on NCSU or have other good options for where to enroll. It’s not only our first choice but what we can afford best afford looking at 4 years. Loans aren’t a great option these days. I really want this for my son too. He worked so hard and it didn’t come easy. He took himself from barely a weighted 4.0 at the end of sophomore year to 4.25 after junior 1st sem. (4.31 when he grads). He is summa cum laude now. That’s a great accomplishment. I’m so proud of him. He fought health issues that make him feel sick and get sick an lot and adhd. Even so, I over 3.5 yrs he’s only had 4 absences to boot. He pushes. He turned how he was doing everything upside down August junior year. He got a 35 superscore. I really want this for him because I know he worked for it. It didn’t come easy and it def wasn’t handed to him.
Those things show up quite close to the release day, I don’t think you would see anything now. It’s more than 2 weeks out.
HI - if you dont see anything under Financial Aid Offer Assumptions (I just see the breakdown of costs) does that mean you should assume you are not to expect any merit? Thank you for any advice!
I don’t think packages for new students has been released. But you will get a notification that you need to tend to your pack portal. It’ll offer you loans, show existing scholarship you may have already won, and what if anything the school is offering you. You should be tending to the portal anyway and make sure it has you “on campus housing” if you’re a freshie or if you’re older, make sure it designates the right living status so the aid dept has the right budget to weigh against.
Current students haven’t even registered for classes yet either so they won’t get any loan or merit offers til after that and closer to summer.
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My son was very blessed to get the Park Scholarship offer which was the only way we could make it work with him being OOS. So many tremendously qualified kids made it to Finalist Weekend so we were very excited and humbled by it. He had a very strong profile across the 4 pillars of academics, service, leadership, and character with a case for each as well as very strong rec letters.
FWIW my elder son got no merit out of high school but worked very hard in college to make grades and be involved and ended up getting a significant amount of scholarship money while in school (not at NC State but at a school that is also very stingy about merit).
It also probably won’t make folks feel much better but NC State is very reasonable for In State tuition. College is just really expensive any way you slice it and I definitely feel for folks that are struggling, I feel very blessed it looks like we will only have to pay for one child.
S25 (in-state) got waitlisted (for Electrical Engineering) after being deferred from EA. Kind of surprised, was expecting acceptance. He will withdraw and make his final choice this weekend, no need to wait anymore 
Congrats to everyone who got in and good bye to this forum, this was very helpful during this process
My son, an OOS sports management hopeful was waitlisted after being deferred. If we were in state, we’d put down a down payment elsewhere and if accepted in June perhaps commit to NC State.
But since we’re out of state time to move on from what was his first choice.
Good luck to all future Wolfpack students.
Anyone have thoughts after attending Experience NC State yesterday?
Would like to know as well had a conflict with u of sc admitted day. Had to choose one to visit
My daughter and I attended. We are in-state. She did not want to go to the event, but she came away with a very positive feeling and said she found the event helpful.
The event started with a series of four 25-minute breakout sessions with twelve session options each (same twelve options for each slot). We attended the student panel, the housing session, the study abroad session, and the undergraduate research session. My daughter and I found all these sessions informative except maybe the housing session. (I’ve already done a ton of online investigation into NCSU’s housing, and I don’t think it’s really hit my daughter yet why she should care ) All presenters were friendly, engaging, and willing to address hard questions. My daughter also thought the other attendees seemed like people she’d like to go to school with.
A couple things from the student panel, which was 1 in-state student and 3 out-of-state students, all upperclassmen:
-all students felt it was easy to meet people and form friendships
-no student thought that you needed a car
-all students said the food was good
A couple things from the undergraduate research session:
-the session was presented by the Office of Undergraduate Research, they seem very serious about involving undergraduates in research
-there is a nuclear reactor on the campus and radiation apparently really does glow in the right conditions, it’s not just a TV effect
-the campus is a certified bee campus
From the study abroad session
-there are a ton of options and ways to work an opportunity into a schedule for most majors (sounded like it could be challenge for engineering majors)
-they do a lot of group study abroad events, where a bunch of NCSU students and a faculty member go on a short trip that is not a full semester. I feel like that’s not quite the same as study abroad but I can see how it might be perfect for some students.
I found their study abroad website to be difficult to navigate and I’d missed many of the possibilities. There are many, many possibilities.
From the housing session:
-First-years must live on campus
-only if two people choose each other as roommates can they be roommates
-if you are accepted to a living learning village you can only have other members of that community as roommates
After the breakout sessions were academic sessions for each of the colleges, with a separate session for the Life Sciences First Year Program. We attended the College of Sciences session. My daughter did not find this session as useful. We both felt it rehashed some of the topics from the breakout sessions, and that the presenter did not leave enough time for us to ask many questions of the student ambassadors at the end. However, he did devote a good deal of time to discussing how first-year students can make connections with both the faculty and the upperclassmen, and why it’s important, which I thought was good for my daughter to hear.
One of my daughter’s biggest concerns about her college choice is that she wants a big school, but a friendly peer group and accessible faculty. Prior to this event she thought she could get the first and maybe the second at NCSU but not the third. She now feels like she has a better idea of how to have all three at NCSU.
We’ve been to the campus before, so we didn’t linger afterwards. We both really like the campus though. There were a lot of people lined up to go into what I assume was the women’s March Madness game, and while neither my daughter nor I follow sports much, the school spirit was really on display.
Although my daughter is still undecided for her final school choice, this event helped her rule out another school, so we are down to three schools still in contention.