We toured a different college Tulane and, at the tour, the admissions office representative said point blank – “if you want merit scholarships, apply early action. If you apply early decision, you’re chances of scholarship are less because we don’t have to offer merit to get you to come here”. At least they were honest, I guess. Wish they would all stop the early decision. Helps their yield rate, favors the rich, but hurts high stat students who need that merit. Who wants to graduate with $200,000 student loans?
Same
I do not believe financial aid is out, FAFSA is still processing. We got the same 50% tuition offer and know we won’t get more.
Same, but our 50% tuition isn’t in my slice yet either.
We don’t know what my slice is. Oye.
lol so log into admissions portal and look at the top bar. Your kiddo will need to create a login net id to get in. It’s how they register, pay bills etc.
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Here is what my daughter sees in her MySlice portal. Shows her $15k + $5k merit and then the small loans. No additional aid. My understanding is FA is complete so this is all we will get.
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Ultimately a college is a business. If they don’t get enough revenue (tuition) they cease to exist. Every college goes about ensuring that happens a little differently. I appreciated the transparency of the schools that let you know specifically what their approach - to admissions and $$ were - it led to far fewer surprises.
We as consumers want to pay the minimum necessary for the best product.
There’s nothing wrong with either but they are at odds with each other.
Saw they got 44,500 applications this year. Anyone know what yield usually is?
From the '23-'24 (last year’s applicants) Common Data Set
| Applications | 42,089 |
|---|---|
| Acceptance | 17,545 |
| % Acceptance | 42% |
| Enrolled | 3,672 |
| Yield | 21% |
What’s not clear in the data is what the quantity of applicants for ED were and acceptance through that method. The yield for ED would be 98-99% and therefore the yield for RD would be a bit below the 21%.
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Ha! I looked - though I admit not for a very long time - updated table.
| ED | RD | |
|---|---|---|
| Applications | 2,182 | 39,907 |
| Acceptance | 1,439 | 16,106 |
| % Acceptance | 66% | 40% |
| Enrolled | 1,439 | 2,233 |
| Yield | 100% | 14% |
The assumed yield for ED is 100% - in reality that’s probably closer to 98-99%.
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S24 heard today, he was offered a spot on the waitlist for his intended major Illustration. He will need to fill out a waitlist request form and will be notified sometime after June 1st if they end up having a spot for him. This was the last school he was waiting to hear from so we are all glad the wait is over and now he can mull over options. He’s okay with it, with so many applying even this feels like a small win. He has some other options he likes just as much so all will work out in the end wherever he ends up. Best of luck to all as your families decide where your children will end up next year!
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Does anyone know how to find out what colleges Syracuse considers “competitors”? I feel like someone posted the name of a website or source that lists this out, but I’ve scanned the entire thread and cannot find it.
I am thankfully past the college admissions stage but the Fiske Guide to Colleges - a very big book - lists similar colleges. You could probably find it at your library or a bookstore. My D chose Elon Business Fellows over Whitman at Syracuse and there are probably kids that made the opposite choice. I knew a high stats kid who was waitlisted at Whitman and then admitted with merit. He chose Richmond.
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Thank you! I didn’t hit the library but did find the prior post which said the following for overlap schools (found it by searching “Fiske” thanks!):
University of Vermont, Ithaca College, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, Univ. of New Hampshire, UMass-Amherst, Syracuse, Coll. of Wm. & Mary, Boston University, UConn
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I received my estimate, and the estimate FASFA is much lower than the real thing. Would anything happen to my grant because of it?
So there was no Pell? What was your Net price? My daughter received the 1870 scholarship but I’m afraid her aid might just have the scholarship and the federal loans.
Sorry - not sure I understand your question. Syracuse does not meet need (FAFSA SAI) so if you got a FA letter from them and it’s higher than your SAI that’s pretty typical.
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