You wrote this:
If that is true, your income annually is north of $300,000 a year. Don’t expect an adjustment to need based aid anywhere.
You wrote this:
If that is true, your income annually is north of $300,000 a year. Don’t expect an adjustment to need based aid anywhere.
He could take the Stamps and pursue biomedical engineering.
Then he can apply to graduate programs.
Or he might change his mind about his major.
His options are wide open.
I agree with the posters upthread that the chances are slim to none that the private schools are going to bite. But slim might be in town, and it doesn’t hurt to ask. Get on the phone with the admissions officers of the schools in mind and find out if there is any chance of any merit awards for your son, and then hit the fin aid office for a review of your financials. That way YOU will know for sure, straight from the schools, what the choices are for your son.
My youngest turned down some major award packages to go full freight at his first choice school. We discussed the situation and made a family decision that we would manage to pay his costs. In his case, he was committed with ED, and it was a deep breath we took as he had to turn down his second choice school (EA) that he was going to attend–no RD apps for him, that had a generous merit award. He;d have quite a nest egg had he gone there and we weret to give him the difference in 4 years costs .
But sure…ask.
Usually admissions handles merit aid.
Usually the financial aid office handles need based aid.
Keep in mind…the Stamps is a fabulous scholarship with many perks in addition to the scholarship money.
Do you and he understand all the extras that come with being a Stamps scholar? Things he won’t get at a T10 as a normal student?
Our EFC is also above $100k, but I felt compelled to complete U Chicago FA form after EA admission. Nada!
There are schools that negotiate with students on FA or merit. Cal tech or JHU don’t. D negotiated $20k a year from U Chicago using her MIT admission. In other words, you have to find a school that offers merit and negotiate with admission from a peer or better school.
OP, I am sure that there are more admissions coming to your S. Wait until you have all before you decide. GT is great school, and it is saying a lot about your S that he got the scholarship OOS. D was a finalist (OOS) and didn’t win.
Best of luck!
His Stamps offer is not from GrorgiaTeach which would have made it whole lot easier.
Reading through all your experiences and responses, it’s sinking to me that either I pony up 70k or take stamps offer.
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@judgegegg
I’m glad that you appreciate the INCREDIBLE opportunity that being a Stamps Scholar offers to you DS,
REGARDLESS of the college that offers the Scholarship .
He will find his peers there, not only with other gifted UG classmates, but more importantly, among his fellow Stamps Scholars.
He wont regret taking the Stamps offer.
And a few years down the line, when he is older and wiser, he will admit that too you too
best of luck to him- though he won’t need it.
The Stamps is a terrific award regardless of the college. It’s a very competitive scholarship award. Read what @menloparkmom wrote.
https://www.stampsfoundation.org/partners/#partnerschools
This is a list of the current Stamps partner schools. The public universities on this list are all great schools.
Are you the parent? Or are you the student? Some of your previous posts suggest you’re the student.
i am the parent.
no, i am the parent
@judgegregg
so as the parent, who is the only one who CAN pay for your DS’s UG education if he does NOT accept the Stamps Scholarship, you should educate your DS about the costs that you will taking on IF he turns down this incredible opportunity.
I did so when my DS was offered a full tuition scholarship.
He too was accepted at many “more prestigious” colleges.
And then I said nothing more.
He made the final choice, despite the incredulous “You’re going WHERE???” comments from his classmates/ and fellow parents once he made the decision.
13 years later, no one even cares or remembers where he was initially accepted.
What matters is what he made of the opportunities that were offered to him as a valued scholar once he got to college.
those opportunities have paid off in more ways than I could ever have hoped for.
@ judgegregg Which school is it?
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@judgegregg My D is a Stamps Scholar at a public and turned down another Stamps at another university. The Stamps is amazing!!! She is not missing out on anything and in fact has far more opportunities than she would have had going to a T10. Which school? PM me if you want to hear about my D’s experience so far. She’s a sophomore.