Feeling annoyed. Got accepted EA way back in mid December but no mention of merit other than the referral award and now everyone getting their acceptances has merit offers right along with their acceptances. They told my daughter they were so impressed with her yada yada which explains why they accepted her so quickly I guess but if they were they impressed with her audition video and everything….where is the merit money?!
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Mine also got in for physics with 32K (104 gpa, 1590 sat). But unless we get more needs based aid, RPI is looking better for him (38k scholarship, 17K grant)
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Congrats to your child! We actually haven’t heard from RPI yet! They also have a great physics program. I have read some concerning things about the financial situation of that school though and when we visited I Thought some of the campus buildings appeared to be in bad shape. I haven’t expressed any of these concerns to my son though, I’ll wait and see what he decides. Like I said, we haven’t even heard from them yet which surprised me.
Son accepted for Mechanical Eng - $23,000 Tigers Pride scholarship. 4.1 wGPA, 1280 SAT. Go Tigers!
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D26 accepted for New Media Design with $32K presidential scholarship!
This scholarship replaces the $24K Women in STEM high school award she got last year.
She’ll be able to stack on the $1K alumni referral and a $2K National Merit award, and she’s applied for the performing arts scholarship which might be another $1K. So $36K total in merit brings the COA to about $45K, which is in line with a couple of her other acceptances.
I posted her full stats in the first post on this thread, LOL. 
Hooray! Congrats all around. This is the one we’ve been waiting for, and now the kid has a huge decision to make.
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I had to Google tuition exchange. Crossing my fingers for you that it comes through!
Ughghg, I’m sorry tuition exchange is a ‘no’ at Pitt. Sending good vibes that some merit comes through to make it affordable.
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Thank you!
Anyone know about need based aid-are they generous? Even with $30K a year merits-it’s a bit too high! Even Another $10 would make it worth visiting and close to our SAI.
My kiddo got admitted game design with a Founders Scholarship (29,000). I am also wondering if they meet need through grants or not.
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This sounds horrible!!
Sorry that you and your D26 are dealing with this
If you haven’t already- I would call and/or email once again.
I can see having to wait for the financial aid package - but the merit award should have come out with the admissions offer. I could see waiting a bit for it since they gave a very early decision- but it feels like something went wrong with this process.
And if they did not actual award any merit- then ask the process to request a review/increase (RIT is known for increasing offer when asked)
I wish I had more to offer beside the suggestion to call again 
Good luck and hope it all gets straightened out really soon
Edited to add-
RIT-NTID-Financial-Aid-Brochure-26-27.pdf
On page 4 it says 100% of students receive merit and it list the merit amount (6k-12k)
So it has to be coming for your D26?!?!? I hope!!!
Thanks so much for your reply! We’ll send them a note tomorrow, I feel like it’s definitely worth asking especially since they made the comment about how they were ‘so impressed by her’! I’m wondering if hers is a little different than the norm since it was through NTID and it being a unique video audition type application etc. all of her application process stuff was a bit different than standard RIT so perhaps all of those are handled a bit differently but I think it doesn’t hurt to ask right?!
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Good luck! My kiddo got his acceptance into the PA program today with the Presidential Scholarship award. He also is going to apply for the Performing Arts Scholarship as well. Plan on flying out from Los Angeles and coming up in March for the admitted students open house day. We’ll make it a quick 5 day trip while we’re up there and visit 3 other schools that are also having open house days right after RITs.
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When are the admitted students open houses?
We signed up for one on March 21
Sorry, wrong school! 
my D24 was awarded TE at RIT. Notified in March. Good luck to your son!
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March 28 and April 11.
We can’t make March 28 (last day of the high school spring play in which D26 has her first major role!), and April 11 seems too late. So we’re tentatively booked for March 16 – we just checked “visiting as an admitted student” on the form. That opened up the option to set up an academic department tour.
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This is enough to make my head absolutely explode. Since I assumed merit being money being money related, I started with an email to the financial aid office asking them being accepted on 12/12 early action but no mention of merit. While I waited for an email reply I also chatted with support who informed me that merit is from the admissions office and to contact them. So we emailed a woman from admissions who we had previously spoken to. First email reply comes in from financial add, tagging in the same admissions woman we had just written to and again reiterates that its the admissions team who handles merit and I’m tagging so and so who can get back to you about merit. Then an email comes in directly replying to us from our admissions person who says aid will come from financial aid and be available in march. Both offices keep pointing us to the other office and I keep telling them that it seems everyone else is getting the merit piece along with their decision. Honestly, this is all a really bad look.
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Hugs!!! I am so sorry.
Was excited when I first saw your update- thought it was going to be good news until I started to read it!
It almost sounds like the admission person is thinking you are asking about the ‘financial aid package’ vs the ‘merit scholarship’?
I agree- A really bad look!
I am rooting for a great outcome for your D26- even if it may be painful getting there 
I think we couldn’t possibly have been any more clear especially in our most recent communications saying specific things like “while I know the full aid package with grants and loans comes later, we are specifically inquiring about merit awards such as ‘presidential scholarship’ or ‘tiger pride’ etc etc etc”
It’s bananas how much we’ve been bounced around. Crossing my fingers they get back to my daughter with something that makes sense shortly here! Appreciate all the support!!! <3
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