Scholarship Letter Questions

scmom12
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:47:49 +0000

^^I’m don’t think your final $ offer is affected by when you accept (I can’t swear to it, just my opinion), but for us we wanted to see final money offers from all schools D wanted to attend…some of which we didn’t see until mid-April. We committed on last day possible:) From a stress standpoint I would not recommend this!! If you have a guidance/college person at your school she/he might know “what goes on behind the scene” answer to that based on experience.

If you have been accepted to honors, committing early doesn’t affect anything from a practical standpoint…you are guaranteed housing and I don’t know any freshmen honors who didn’t get in honors dorm (in fact one of D’s friends in Capstone program got in honors dorm with a friend who requested her and I don’t think they’d have dispaced a SCHC kid for that). At some schools, getting in line for housing would be an incentive. Now until you’ve actually committed to USC, you can’t sign up for orientation which does affect you since you have a better selection of classes the earlier you go…so the date orientation reservations open up would be one to keep an eye on.