You never know how institutional priorities come into play as well - we are from Illinois so that may add a bit of geographic diversity.
(ETA - I did look this up and per college factual there about 5 students from Illinois at Duquesne per year. I would not be surprised if that helped DD’s odds in the TE)
Have you heard anything from Jacksonville U by any chance? Anyone else here waiting for a determination from JU?
It was my S23 kid who had JU in the running and as one of the final 4 choices. If I remember correctly, JU never told him about TE, they auto gave him basically full tuition as a talent and academic merit scholarship but it wasn’t listed as TE. They were very quick with that financial package with acceptance.
Yes, that make sense, we are from PA. It would have been nice though. Older brother is at Pitt with TE, like yours.
Denied showed up in my D25 TE portal this morning.
I’m highly disappointed and discouraged about Tuition Exchange. My dependent was denied as well and with over 200 plus applicants how many scholarships do you think were actually awarded? For 10 years my husband has worked at a university where it was always painted that his dependents would be eligible for tuition exchange at other institutions. We were never informed on how highly competitive it is. We have a Dependent that does very well in school and exceptionally well and extracurriculars and is deserving of a tuition exchange at another university. But how do you hold up against 300 applicants, no one has a chance. And when they award only 1 to 3%? Ridiculous.
I’m sorry!!
I’m really sorry. It’s so frustrating. I had the same experience of not really getting how ridiculously competitive TE. If you are lucky enough to get and use one of the spots it’s amazing but those slots are so hard to get that it’s really not a benefit for many people.
Exactly. And add in your husband (like myself) is probably getting a salary very low compared to what he could make in the private sector.
Waitlisted at U of St. Thomas (MN) today. Thankful for the email though with an update.
I am sorry. As for us, we are very upset and disappointed too. Unfortunately Duquesne does not give out a generous amount of TE’s. We were told that hundreds applied for TE but only 6 received. We were also told 6 were placed on waitlist (D25 not on waitlist).
I see, thanks for the info. My son did get a nice merit award with admission, but nowhere close to full tuition!
I’m sorry that you and your dependent are disappointed that TE wasn’t awarded at the first choice school. At least they have one TE option at a very good school. I agree with you that colleges should inform their faculty/staff that TE can be very competitive at some schools. And colleges should be more transparent to applicants about the odds of receiving TE.
We asked how many were on the wait-list (to know where my son is and if there’s a remote chance) for one school and the liaison would not tell us.
It is super frustrating and you just feel bad for your student that worked so hard and the parent of the host institution as well. I would echo all the same things about not realizing just how competitive it truly is. To make things worse, it’s like the Wild West where no 2 schools are doing the same thing and often don’t even award solely based on merit. Some schools simply award to under enrolled majors, some schools care about how many you applied to in order to test demonstrated interest for their school (I was told this from TE liaisons … although I hear they no longer can see your list of import applications), some schools won’t tell you if you’re on the wait-list unless you ask, some do. Some give a short deadline way before May 1st to accept (against the policy of the TE). It’s a crap shoot! The schools/TE liaisons refuse to be transparent about the number of applicants and awards they will give or historically have given. Like … What’s the harm in being transparent?!? They’ll just say it’s “competitive” (like the commercial on TV).
Does anyone know how to check for CIC? TE has the portal, does cic have that?
We were just emailed about cic
When I was hired, it was mentioned as if it’s a benefit. It’s not! Good opportunity, but not a guarantee by any means. The name is completely misleading too.
I was going to say that also about the name. I will say, we were specifically told it was not a benefit but instead a competitive scholarship opportunity, but yeah, the name is even misleading.
It depends on the school. The old TE website had a filter by % of awards --some schools were in the “under 10%” but many were in the “10-40%” range while some were in the “60 to 90%” range.
We ended up not needing TE because S25 got a different full tuition scholarship at his ED1, but at one of the TE colleges we toured last spring/summer, a SLAC in Pennsylvania that he liked a lot, the admissions counselor we spoke with told us that they typically give it to everyone who applies for it (and they offered full tuition, not set rate).
The amount of legwork that has gone into finding matching TE colleges is a lot. I think we were extremely lucky the first go-around (DS23 at Pitt) and I am grateful for this forum and the spreadsheet from year to year, which gave us an idea of where to focus our efforts.
I agree that it’s oversold as a “sure thing” at some places but I do feel like I was told it was competitive at my home institution, as well as other forums. I think it’s also changed over the years. Perhaps not useful for this year’s class, but in higher ed I hear all about the “demographic cliff” that will lead to underenrollment everywhere. Perhaps it will be more of that “sure thing” when there are fewer people applying?
Also, as you noted, there are some SLAC that do seem to give it to everyone who applies. I found this when i went to the CTCL fair. Some of those places even have rolling admissions or March 1 deadlines so there’s still some possibilities this round?
We are still waiting for news from some schools. Fingers crossed for all of us.