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My older son attended St. John Fisher on CIC tuition benefit a few years ago. There is no transparency with a website like TE and the list of schools is smaller but it is always full tuition. He did not get awarded a a freshmen but got a letter that if his GPA was 3.0 or above his first year he would receive the benefit for the subsqeuent 3 years.
Both twins received TE at Augustana College (in IL) and Twin A received it at Illinois Wesleyan.
ThanksāI havenāt wanted to add any rows to the spreadsheet because I know I will mess it up!
I will add them later. Iām not by a computer for the next few hours.
Thankyou for this! Itās actually one of my questions if the answer is no - if we can make year 1 work, can she reapply.
Also, I am staff, not a high earner, so would qualify for aid in some fashion - I donāt know if that makes a difference, I can see CIC benefit being huge for a high earner/ administrator/ hockey coach that would be full pay otherwise, but if itās CIC or āpresidential scholarshipā (or whatever the name of the discount is) and the difference between is negligible for someone like my kid, I wonder if that makes a difference.
My employer is a CIC school and I know of many colleagues who had kids attend schools on CIC scholarship. One thing that stood out to me was that Drew University, which requires all students to live on campus all four years and does not (or at least, did not when we looked 5 years ago) break apart the price of R&B. So, everyone who attended on CIC had a full ride. It was a pretty sweet deal, I just couldnāt interest my D in the school.
Oh wow! That was on her list early on but she decided she wanted to be a little closer to home.
DeeCee36 ā so you are saying for CIC, Drew covered room and board as well as tuition?
heard that it usually is pretty late
That is an awesome deal! Wonder if it is still the case.
Yes, at least that was the experience of my coworker a few years back.
For us the TE liaison committed to it before he enrolled as a freshmen for years 2-3-4. He had an academic scholarship for an amount and then the TE made up the difference between the scholarship and full tuition.
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Thank you!
Son received an email today from Trinity University (San Antonio) that he received TE. I believe this is a new school to the list.
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Can someone explain to me how they award TE? Is all based on strength of application or is it sometimes random? Iām obviously new to this.
Each school has their own method. For instance, the one school weāre waiting on is need-based. Weāre not expecting to get that one.
How do you find out what each institutionās process is. Some are listed on the TE website but not all.
We have asked Admissions or the TE liaison at some schools about their process. Some are more forthcoming than others with information.
Yes, very much at the schoolās discretion. Some schools base it on financial need (and therefore need FAFSA to make decisions), others base it on grades/SAT, others on the area of interest (if they are trying to grow a program), some on geographics (if trying to break into a new area), others on sports, others a combination of factors. And the criteria they use can change yearly based on institutional priorities.
Schools do not have to share their criteria with you. Many will not.