<p>DS was recently admitted for Fall 2006 at great LAC that uses rolling EA. DS was told that the school begins consideration for merit awards some time in October. I believe they use GPA and SATs at time of acceptance as the gauge.</p>
<p>My question is this: How is merit money assigned under rolling EA? If a fixed formula using GPA and SATs is used, then what’s the benefit of applying rolling EA? Do earlier applicants get more generous amounts, or would an applicant who applies in December 2005, say, with exactly the same credentials as my DS receive the same amount of money? Or could they receive more to ensure that slots in the freshman class are filled.</p>
<p>I feel clueless…</p>
<p>Thanks for your insight!</p>
<p>I am extrapolating from what I have read, not personal experience. D doesn’t attend a school that offers merit and none of her schools were rolling.
However, I would guess that rolling does have a benefit as it can be really nice to get some acceptances under your belt. If you think your GPA will be about the same- and you are interested in merit- then in doesn’t really matter when you apply if you don’t care about the early acceptance. I doubt it is a fixed formula. Usually things other than numbers are used in admission especially at LACs. Essays, recommendations, interviews all may play a part. If your D has a skill or talent that a dept head wants, they may offer her more money.
If I wanted to insure that a class was filled with students who wanted to come and would increase the academic profile of the school, I wouldn’t necessarily offer more to earlier applying students, but would offer more to students who might attend somewhere else with out the merit aid.
D applied to one private LAC that offered her 100% of EFC. they used other things besides numbers for admission.
She also applied to 4 public schools- one out of state, where her numbers would have been an asset to the school.
We were very surprised that despite this, that not much merit aid was offered. Her 2nd choice school offered a renewing scholarship of less than $1000. Two other instate schools didn’t offer her any merit aid, and the out of state public school strongly encouraged her to apply for a seperate merit scholarship ( by letter and phone)- I beleive it would have been enough to make it easier to attend an out of state school, but by that time she had been accepted to the private school .</p>
<p>At Indiana University Bloomington you do better financially if you apply earlier in the rolling admissions process.</p>
<p>now my niece is attending there- instate, as her father resides in Indiana- additionally is there some sort of incentive for instate residents/military dependents to attend?
He is only paying half the price( my brother) of instate tuition-
so it help parents to know that while some states- you need to have graduated from an instate high school to obtain residency, other states are more flexible.</p>
<p>overseas what are the stats for direct admission into Kelly, if you know? I was just wondering. My S does not plan on applying bcs it is too far from home for his comfort level, not into frats, and bcs the school is too large for him? I think for business this is a very good choice.</p>
<p>Don’t know about Kelly. Son applied to music school.</p>
<p>My D got into Baylor last fall, rolling admit. They have a published formula for merit, a class rank % and SAT score, the higher one is the lower the requirement for the other. The counselor told me that they would go with rank from the end of grade 11, but if it improved in grade 12, you could submit it for more money, they would not, however, look for a decline in rank in grade 12 and then reduce your award! it seemed pretty generous in attitude.</p>
<p>My D did not go there, but it sure felt nice to have it from October until April when the other acceptances came in.</p>
<p>They also said the money could be used up, so if you apply later (spring) funds may not be available. Ifound them to be very helpful in when simply calling and asking for details.</p>