I just found it a bid curious that the scholarship rejection letters started appearing shortly after I filed the FAFSA. Hmmmm.
I doubt it had anything to do with that. Most schools are need-blind. The timing is that acceptance/rejection letters come at this time. This is also the time that FAFSA gets filed.
Which schools were you rejected from? What are your stats? What was your EFC?
Rejected for scholarships from Davidson, WashU, Centre, Auburn, Western Kentucky, and a couple others. (Edit, left out Vanderbilt.)
Think top 0.1% stats. So the NMF scholarship is looking like the way forward.
Auburn gives even some scholarship money on relatively moderate stats - what kind of scholarship were you looking for? If you are in state in AL, Auburn gives full tuition for the Presidential but no full tuition if you are out of state. Check Univ of Alabama - they give a lot of scholarship money.
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Rejected for scholarships from Davidson, WashU, Centre, Auburn, Western Kentucky, and a couple others. (Edit, left out Vanderbilt.)
Think top 0.1% stats. So the NMF scholarship is looking like the way forward.
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I highly doubt the Scholarship Committees have any access to FA apps/files. That is usually a different dept.
And why would FAFSA affect a scholarship chance??? Why would you think that Auburn or WKU or the others would care what your FAFSA EFC IS??? And, Wash U and Vandy and Davison are CSS schools.
What competitive award did Auburn reject you for???
Auburn? I’d have to ask my son. I just remember the letter.
"Why would you think that Auburn or WKU or the others would care what your FAFSA EFC IS??? " Just a tad naive. Sorry.
CSS schools also want the FAFSA. They make the rules, not me.
But you did say you never filed a FAFSA, correct?
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CSS schools also want the FAFSA. They make the rules, not me.
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Yes. but if you think family contribution would affect a scholarship, then those schools would want to see CSS and make a determination.
I don’t understand your concern. Are you saying that the scholarship rejections were because your EFC is too high or too low?
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"Why would you think that Auburn or WKU or the others would care what your FAFSA EFC IS??? "
Just a tad naive. Sorry.
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You think that I am being naive? Why would Auburn or WKU care what your EFC is for merit consideration?
The fact that I haven’t filled out FAFSA is irrelevant.
Some scholarships may have a need component. Nevertheless, I don’t recall my D receiving any rejection letter from the scholarships that she did not win. They are just dead silent.
The Auburn scholarship was probably an Elite scholarship. Those did come with rejection letter and were only opened to ACT scores of 34+. There were over 300 applicants and only 14 chosen to come interview… heard on the Auburn forum of someone with a 36, got accepted into Caltech and got rejected from Elite scholarships.
It’s a bit ridiculous to think this was because of filing the FAFSA, not just - I don’t know, being rejected along with the other 300 applicants that didn’t get it either?
Some schools require FAFSA because the financial aid package includes grants and loans. If you don’t want to file, I assume the school just gaps the $5500 loan.
The point is, for CSS schools, they already have all the information that is included in the FAFSA. And merit scholarships are to attract students for stats so they don’t care if you have need, they are trying to lure you. I’m sure they don’t have enough of those big scholarships to go to everyone they would like.
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I’m sure they don’t have enough of those big scholarships to go to everyone they would like.
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Exactly! and as mentioned above, the Auburn Elite award has 300 qualified applicants and only 14 are chosen to be INTERVIEWED…so likely even fewer than 14 are awarded.
Also…altho I don’t know about auburn’s award, I do know that Bama has a similar competitive one, and there is a bias towards instate kids for that award, simply because it’s an endowed award and it’s MUCH cheaper to fund it as an instate award, rather than OOS, which has tuition that is 2-3 times higher.
That said, I also know that the OP’s child is a NMF so already qualifies for one of Auburn’s big NMF awards. And, if AU is like Bama, those who qualify for NMF awards, generally do NOT get selected for other competitive awards…so that the school can spread out the big awards.