Scholarship letters are out

JBStillFlying
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 07:31:46 +0000

@drewsmom17 that’s their standard line when they don’t have anything to tell you - technically accurate but completely unhelpful >:D< Fin. aid. award letters are distributed in the spring but the U hands out merit throughout the application cycle. Most if not all will be distributed by March. A few last year received something even after that! Your son’s stats are in a good place to think he’s eligible for merit at some point.

Also, now that we’ve had a chance to review my son’s awards, looks like a portion is presidential and another portion CLA-specific. That got me thinking. CLA had its own application process for merit and probably a deadline that only recently passed. Other colleges do NOT have a similar, separate application - but every college gives out at least some merit aid and decisions over how to allocate university vs. college-specific merit funds might take some time to nail down for everyone. Admissions only sends out one package per recipient with all your awards included. So if something from the college is taking extra time to finalize that might keep a high-stats kid from hearing anything at all for a while - even if the bulk of the awards are university-specific and so directly within Admissions control. The problem is, if you call they won’t share information with you (or can’t - not sure which). We know callers who were told everything would be sent out by March only to have their awards arrive a day or two later! Go figure! Anyway, this is just a thought as to why some awards seem to be so delayed.