Could someone please clarify: at the time Tulane admissions decisions are announced, do they also tell you about merit aid, or financial aid, or both or neither?
How does merit aid and financial aid stack, i.e. do you fully get both, or does one reduce or eliminate the other? These questions are about Tulane, but I wonder generally what colleges do.
They will tell you about merit, not about financial aid.
And if you applied for any of the big scholarships, that is announced later (it was Feb in 2022). D22 didnât get any of them but got an additional $6k a year so well worth the extra essays.
Different colleges do all different things. No one answer to that question.
GENERALLY SPEAKING -
Merit (if there is any) is shown with admissions letter.
Scholarship - sometimes there is the opportunity to âcompeteâ for additional scholarship within different fields or just generally with additional essays. This would usually stack with Merit.
Aid - wonât be awarded until the Spring once all FAFSA (and possibly CSS/IDOC) are submitted and evaluated. This could or could not stack with Merit/Scholarship and varies widely by school.
Any thoughts on what it might mean (if anything) if an applicant did NOT receive any emails over the last week about pulling their app because they are going ED elsewhere?
My only thought would be to not try and over-think it since youâre only 27 hours away from a response. Best of luck - to you and everyone else!!
Chiming in here â Merit Aid is awarded at time of admission offer and this stays the same as long as the student makes academic progress and does not drop from full time status. From my experience (D is a Junior), once the merit is considered, the next group is federal financial aid. The institutional aid is is what is intended to fill the gap. Federal financial aid and institutional aid change every year due to how your finances change E.g., we really donât qualify for federal financial aid, but were fortunate to have good institutional aid her Freshman and Sophomore years, but this year we got 0 institutional aid as my oldest graduated in May from another college meaning we could pay more. I would assume that any scholarship also reduces that.
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This thread is awfully quiet for being less than an hour to go. EA still set to come out at 4 CST, right?
Yes, about 30 minutes
Excellent! good luck everyone!
If admitted, Does Tulane normally announce merit aid along with acceptance ?
Yes
Deferred! Does anyone know the chances of acceptance RD after being deferred from EA?
OOS
Test optional
4.1 weighted out of 4.4
Musical Theatre and Film Studies double major, Music minor
Submitted musical theatre supplement
Deferred oos
1510 SAT
4.2 weighted gpa
great essay and extracurriculars
7 APs and lots of honors classes
it was a top choice
bummed
Admitted OOS with $25K merit. 4.0uw/4.70w, 1540 SAT, 9 APs, lots of leadership.
Deferred OOS
1420, but went TO
99% W GPA (doesnât get much higher than 102%)
Good essay and strong extracurriculars
9 AP/Dual Enrollment, Honors.
Business
Didnât show much Demonstrated Interest.
Congratulations to those accepted!!!
Accepted OOS TO
4.0
Legacy
Engineering
Merit 15k annually
D24 accepted from NJ with $20k annual merit
4.58 WGPA
1480 SAT (780 math)
Engineering major
9 APs including calc BC and physics C
Lots of leadership in clubs and honor societies
Presidential silver service award
Does Tulane reject anyone EA or is everyone either admitted or deferred?