So sorry to hear about the no-go on tuition exchange at his #1, nycasdmom. It’s so hard to sit with them through their disappointments. May there be happier days at your house in the near future.
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Before my son even applied, I was contacting schools to find out how they would treat the tuition benefit offered by my employer. When I wrote to RIT, even though I kept saying my son was a prospective student and we were just trying to understand their policy regarding tuition benefits, they kept writing back to say they couldn’t find him in their system and could I please send his student ID#. So I would write back saying he didn’t have an ID# because he’s not a student there, we’re just asking to try to understand. This went round and round an unbelievable number of times before someone finally addressed our actual question. I was left believing either that “prospective” is just not a common enough word for most people to know, or more likely, that they had AI sending stock replies that were not actually a match for the question I was asking. Your story calls mine back to mind and makes me wonder if you’re hearing from FinAid and Admissions bots! Eventually, it will get kicked to a human who will hopefully have good news for your daughter!
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Thank you 
Ohh my word. I am so sorry. This is so frustrating, and I hope it’s like @IndebtedParent suspected – that you’re getting AI replies – but still, that’s unacceptable. 
If I remember correctly, almost everyone at RIT gets some amount of merit, so unsure how your kiddo has fallen through the cracks. I hope they remedy it quickly!
Holy moly….deep breaths! My daughter just got a reply back….
“ASLIE students benefit from the substantially reduced tuition rate. The ~$39K tuition reduction (plus 4 years) trumps any available RIT scholarships by far. Because of this, ASLIE students typically do not receive additional RIT merit scholarships on top of the reduced tuition.”
This is simply not true according to the RIT/NTID brochure that states 100% or RIT students get some type of merit aid and even goes on to explain how it’s pro-rated due to lower tution but it specifically lists amounts from 6-12k. If that whole brochure is a big lie, how upsetting would that be? I’m not sure how one could publish that and then say that typically none of them receive merit?
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Just heard back and no tuition exchange, but did get a $30K/yr presidential scholarship, so at least that’s something! Still may not be affordable. We’ll have to see. and I need to actually read the letter that my kid totally glossed over to see the details.
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Do you know if they ever increase merit from an appeal?
anyone know when RIT honors college decisions come out?
The only thing I have seen is them saying prior to March 28th.
My D26 did not apply- so I have not been following closely.
I assume they want to wait until all admission decisions come out? RD admissions still has almost a month left.
Good luck!
We got our financial aid offer today-sounds like they’re getting released steadily (I know some got them Friday last week and ours was this afternoon). Hopefully everyone hears soon!
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I hope you were able to clear up the confusion with merit scholarships available for ASLIE students, and that the financial aid offer works for your situation!
RIT is the only one we’re waiting on for the financial aid package and it’s really frustrating since we can’t make any decisions without it.
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That is frustrating!
On another site- they have said they are rolling these out in groups over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully y’all’s will be any day now! They said they are slammed due to a large increase of applicants this year! (not sure how that affects the FA packages- do they admit a larger number also?)
Hopefully you get the numbers you are looking for
Anyone going to the upcoming accepted student events?
We can’t go to the March one and not sure if we are going to the April one either. I really want to go up there one more time- but we may just wait until early Summer and make it a family vacation- see RIT/Rochester and do the Niagara Falls/Canadia area also.
I am trying to convince D26 that ‘she wants to go’ for the April visit 
. So we will see what happens with that. But I think all that traveling for a quick in and out visit does not appeal to her at all 
D26 already committed (and we have visited a couple of times already), but I want her to get more of a feel for the area so she feels at home when school starts in the Fall.
Maybe you could go up a few days before move in to explore then. That way, it’s not an extra trip and it will be fresher in her mind. Just a thought!
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We are looking into that also 
Plus we are not sure about getting all her stuff for the dorms- it is a 22+ hr drive and we really do not want to do that- so getting there the week before would allow us to do the dorm shopping locally and not worry about trying to get it up there.
(Though it is killing me to not have already started the shopping - I feel like I am missing out on all the great deals by not starting now. Plus I love shopping 
)
They used to have a program that would have gotten her to campus 2-3 weeks early (the New Signers Program for NTID students that do not sign), but we were told that they are not doing it this year. So that was a bit disappointing. Had planned on that being a nice way to get her acclimated to the area/campus.
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We’re in the middle of Manhattan, so no matter where he goes, we’ll be buying most everything in that town. We don’t have a car and renting one to bring things from our area seems crazy to me. Especially when we’ll be able to find things at literally any of the 13 schools he applied to!
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Well, they gave us something (the bare minimum according to all the print materials) since we called out what they claim was an error. It’s seeming like they want to save NTID scholarship money for NON ASL interpreting students. All the communication to us now has a tone of ‘just be happy you get NTID tuition’. I wonder if this whole mixup and claiming ASL students 'don’t typically get merit’ is related to what was said here, that they have high application volumes this year and they’re trying to spread out their resources over more people? We wound up accepting the offer and crossing our fingers that our future communications with them in all things go smoother than this did.
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For those who received theirs - Did the financial aid award info come through mail or email?
a notice to the kids email that there was a portal status update to go look at
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