Scholarships in the humanities

AustenNut
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:21:52 +0000

Catcherinthetoast:

Wishing you good luck! For some encouragement my kid posted several chance me threads 5+ years back. His list included several Ivies and top 20s. He got a similar response to what you have gotten.

I wasn’t around for your kid’s thread, but I don’t think anyone on CC here is saying that OP is likely to get shut out. I suspect that one difference between OP’s situation and your son’s is that I believe your family had/has the finances to be full-pay at any institution. OP’s family can contribute $15k/year. Additionally, OP is getting some surprisingly varied NPC results.

I think that people on this thread are trying to make sure that OP will have an affordable choice come spring. Experienced posters know that “full-need” schools that are need-aware might nix OP because of the financial piece, even though OP would be a stellar candidate. Schools that are not need-aware but don’t meet full need might not get the cost low enough. And though I think OP’s chances at the Top X schools that meet-need (generously) and are need-blind are probably greater than the odds of many other students, I don’t know if those odds are greater than about 20%.

So although I am hopeful for OP, I also want to make sure there is a safety net underneath him.