Scholarship Question

<p>I received my letter of admittance today for University Park Fall of 2013 Engineering, and I was quite excited. After doing some research it seemed a lot of people received scholarship offers, and I am quite saddened to see I was offered nothing. Main campus is quite expensive, and I most likely can not go there if I do not receive a scholarship, and would instead have to go to Pitt or a branch campus. I know my stats are not stellar, but I thought I would at least get a couple thousand over four years.</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.71 (not weighted)
ACT: 28
SAT I: 1730 (low, I know)
APs: 4
Additional: I took mostly all honors courses. I have a good extracurricular record, leadership, and community service. </p>

<p>Questions:

  1. Does scholarship information come with the acceptance letter? </p>

<p>2) Is there a way to see if one would receive a scholarship if they attend a branch campus?</p>

<p>3) Is there any way to see if I could qualify for a scholarship from the university, or be reconsidered for one?</p>

<p>What you are reading about is not financial aid. It’s that new money PSU found for freshman students to be dispersed over two years. Real financial aid comes out in March, so only about 2,700 students this year across all campuses will get a “scholarship” like what you’re reading about, but you’re still going to get a financial aid package from the school.</p>

<p>Etuck24 is correct; this new scholarship package is not a substitute financial aid. Instead, it is more of a merit scholarship that should theoretically be stacked on top of your financial aid, should you receive it.</p>

<p>As for the answers,

  1. I received my scholarship letter a few weeks after receiving my acceptance letter. I was accepted during the first week of November to UP and received the letter several days ago.</p>

<p>2) I read in another thread that someone accepted into the Erie campus received a letter. I am not sure how this works out though.</p>

<p>3) These scholarships are sent automatically. No applications are necessary. I received mine in the mail out of the blue; it was quite a pleasant surprise!
I would guess that they do the calculations based on your GPA/SAT (or in my case ACT) scores. The article I read said they were giving out 2700 of these scholarships so I doubt they will look at everyone’s one by one.</p>

<p>For reference, I had a 3.99 GPA and a 29 ACT and got the $12k/2yr one. I heard they were sending out $8k/2yr scholarships as well (probably for branch campuses).</p>

<p>Actually, my son got total $24000 scholarship for 4 years.</p>

<p>I hope they have smaller packages, because my scores do not warrant a package with that amount of money. Even as little as $2,000-$4,000 in merit based scholarships would be tremendous.</p>