The New UTD Academic Excellence Scholarship

stuwithtwist
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:52:57 +0000

Today at approximately 1 AM UT Dallas pushed out the AES awards for everyone who received it, you can check it under the financial aid box in your portal. You should have also received an email on it.

Unlike previous years, it seems much, much more difficult to get to the 2nd or 1st tier of AES, because this time around, there are no tiers.

It seems the award is very scalable now, a couple of my friends got 12500 per year, 11000 per year, there doesn’t seem to be any outlined awards like the tiers we are used to, oh well.

My aid was 10,000 per year, 5k per semester.
My stats (that matter) were:
SAT – 1500
GPA – 4.2
A mouthful of AP classes.

Another data point – One of my friends had an SAT of 1580, and got only 12,000 per year, not covering even full tuition.

I know it might sound egotistical, but is there any possible way to raise this award up going into 2nd year or possibly appeal for a higher one? My financial situation is desperate and I need it in order to stay in the country, but I doubt an emotional appeal will work here. Regardless, feel free to post your results down below!