He got set rate TE at Syracuse and they stacked additional 20k for academic/music merit (totaling free tuition).
He also got TE at Baldwin Wallace and was given full tuition at Jacksonville U.
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That is amazing for Syracuse as they have a pretty high tuition!
My daughter is at Tulane. We never were so fortunate to get TE. It was really hard to work with the TE liaison. I heard only one or 2 students received it. It was frustrating as they would say fill out the financial aid paperwork but we were not doing financial aid and there is nothing on the TE site that says this scholarship is tied to need. So glad she is graduating this year and itâs all behind me. It was a really painful experience.
I have a coworker whose son received TE at USC. I heard they award pretty many so fingers crossed. How has your experience been with Tulane so far? Any communication?
I donât think USC gives out many (under 10% on the website). First of all it is hard to get in and then TE on top of that is probably a crap shoot. But I guess you never know.
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We received a communication from the Tulane liaison that they had received the application and that they would not make a decision until March (received in December). Also, despite my daughter being way above their typical student STATS for grades, test scores, and ECs, she was deferred from Early Action. So I donât have a lot of hope for Tulane. SighâŠ
Is there a spreadsheet in the works for this years TE cohort?
My son (HS Class of '23) is at Pitt and so far TE has been seamless there. DD 25 is a very different person so working on her list. A bad fall semester (relatively) has brought her to a 3.75UW/~4.3W GPA with a 33 ACT. Hoping we can turn it around now but I worry she will not be competitive at the LT10% TE schools (her extra curriculars are a nice balanced life - a sport, a couple clubs, no awards or anything)
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But they do that a lot and then admit you. Deferring is their version of yield protection. My daughter really wanted to go to a southern school. We were all set on Vanderbilt. In hindsight, I wish my daughter had not been accepted to Tulane as it hasnât been a great âparentalâ experience. LOL Excited that she is finally heading to Nashville next year.
In previous years, I have been impressed with the number of students on this forum that get TE from USC despite the less than 10%. Tulane and Skidmore are crazy impossible but it does happen. Have to really wait a long time for them to decide though.
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My daughter received TE from USC last year. Throughout the year, spent a ton of time pouring over past TE threads to try and better understand her chances There has been some debate about the ten percent that is listed and some have speculated that the 10 percent is actually the overall percentage of students receiving TE that applied for it instead of the percentage of accepted USC students that receive the award. Who knows?! For whatever itâs worth, my unhooked daughter applied to USC early action last year. She was initially deferred and then accepted as a Spring admit. She didnât think she had a much of a chance of getting TE, but the award came thru in late April. USC was her top choice and she tried to convey that to them before getting the award.
She met another spring admit that also received TE. Never say never! Wishing you all the best. The waiting game is really hard.
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Yes, your daughterâs situation echoes my coworkerâs experience with USC. If you can get admitted, I have heard that TE generally follows. So yes, please donât give up on TE at USC.
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Thanks for sharingâthis is exactly the type of thing many of us need to hear right now as we play the long, long waiting game!
On a related note, itâs so cool that your daughter met another TE student! My S21 is a junior at the University of Dayton, where he received the tuition exchange, and he hasnât yet met anyone else who is a TE student.
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Agree about Pitt. My older daughter, HS class of 22, has TE at Pitt and it has been great. No problems and full tuition other than about $1600 in fees each year.
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Thank you for sharing! Waiting on EA decision from USC. Comes out next week!
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Do you mind sharing what you have not liked about Tulane? My daughter also wants to go somewhere Southern, whether that be SoCal or the South! lol
I just messaged you⊠let me know if that didnât work.
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U of Dayton rejected s23 from TE thus hes not there. 
My son also got TE at Syracuse, where your son is, but it was hard to visit the campus in the spring of '21 because it was closed until April due to covid, so he chose Dayton in the end, which we had visited and which had all the things he was looking for in terms of schools. Itâs been the perfect fit for himâand it sounds like Syracuse is for your son. I keep having faith (with two in the process right now) that our children end up at the schools they are destined for.emphasized text
Wishing you all the best and hopefully the EA round isnât as brutal as last year, the first year USC offered EA. May have been an experimental year but they only accepted 5% during their EA phase and deferred all the restâ95 % of EA applicants. Uncertainty reigned awaiting both decision and TE.
But hereâs to EA acceptance this go round and TE in the months to come 
RegardlessâFight on!
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Is Skidmore difficult in terms of TE? I know itâs a hard school to get intoâitâs at the top of my sonâs list. When he and my husband visited last summer, the TE liaison said they tended to give more TE than the website said they did. I remember a few people on the TE forum from my S21âs year had kids who received it there.