Scholarships in the humanities

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:35:23 +0000

pelagicmoon:

my in-state flagship is Rutgers, but i don’t want to go there

I just thought that I would put in a good word for Rutgers.

When I was in graduate school (at Stanford) the other students in the same program had come from a very wide range of other universities. There was only one single university that had sent more than one student (that I knew of) to the same graduate program in that particular class year. It was Rutgers. The three students that I knew who were Rutgers graduates were all very good.

Since then I have worked with several Rutgers graduates. I also have several in-laws who are Rutgers graduates. ALL of them make their alma mater look very good.

There are strong students at Rutgers. You will find lots of them.

To me it sounds like the best approach is to look for universities that are likely to affordable, apply to multiple of them (including Rutgers), get your acceptance letters back with financial aid information, and then compare your options.

I think that one of my daughters got a $200 scholarship from a group in high school (most likely music related). However, $200 does not go very far in 2023. At least for us the financial aid that actually mattered was what we got from each university directly.