Confirmed with financial aid office. No need based aid at all, just the 15k merit. Tough, but as D is a recruited athlete, with aid coming from that direction after the first year, we will bite the bullet and take the loan.
1430 Sat 3.8uw 4.3w No merit offered will be passing
@luke123456 IS or OOS? Major?
I am guessing in state, since out of state they would be probably throwing money at those numbers.
Does anyone have their Financial Aid Shopping Sheet in Financial Aid section?
bio major OOS
we thought he would get mpney,but it too expensive to go OOS based on merit from other schools we received
@Luke123456 My daughter was accepted for nursing, has similar stats and received merit of $18.5k plus honors college. I am surprised no merit money came your way. When was the application submitted?
was submitted in RD well before deadline. We were surprised and are requesting to re look. admin person we spoke to said she was surprised. No one can give us an answer. Providence is cheaper for us than UConn so we will move on.
That being said its unfair to us.
The cutoff for merit and honors consideration was Dec. 1st, and the RD application deadline was Jan. 15th. It sounds like your child’s application was in before the merit cutoff, so it is odd that they can’t explain why no merit was awarded. Best of luck on Providence. We looked at it with my older son, but it came out much more expensive than Gettysburg College by about $15k per year.
thanks you too, this is our 3rd time through this, the only common theme is there is no common theme. I will never understand what goes into their decision making.
My son is at Storrs, but I could not agree more, what are they looking for?? It just depends on the program, what seats they need to fill, demographics, how much you can pay. There is no rhyme or reason. Schools that my son should have gotten in with plenty of merit waitlisted him and Storrs which he sent application in after deadline did everything in their power to get him besides driving to our house.
@mrs806 It just shows why it is important to have a good portfolio of schools and encourage a child to be open minded until the costs are known. We did a much better job managing expectations for the second than the first who fell in love with a full price private that we eliminated.
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Exactly! That’s why target schools and or the so called safety often means nothing. Especially when a lot of times its not even a matter of getting in, but more about getting in with money. Some people feel that an acceptance without merit or good financial help is essentially a denial. Really all depends on what the family can afford to pay. I also think the higher you are the harder it is, the competition is so fierce out there and we saw it first hand. My son had very high stats and received decent merit from the schools he got in but they gave out much more to some of his friends with say divorced parents or some sort of hook.
I agree. Admissions process at all schools is a mystery. I got better merits from OOS but nothing from my instate school. There needs to be some sense to it all.
yes it is cheaper to go the providence a private school then to UCONN a state school. makes no sense
UConn caters to in state. They always have and even though they are getting more and more out of state students their preference is to take top students from Connecticut and give them merit on top of the reduced in state price. I have read it a thousand times that they look for in state top students first and based on the students that they have accepted from the high schools here in Connecticut it is very true.
Wow…it’s such a mystery as to how admission decisions and merit decisions are made. My son has similar stats to @Luke123456, and he received 15K merit - OOS. His major is Comp Sci which is currently a very competitive major. He was accepted to another school considerable less selective than UConn and received zilch, nada!! His stats are way above that particular college’s averages, and he qualifies for at least 2 or 3 awards based on the criteria indicated on their website. I’ve reached out to the FA office - makes no sense. He met all deadlines. Best of luck to @Luke123456.
Funny that you say that, the same thing happened to my son. The colleges that he was way above in the top percentile either gave him very little or even waitlisted him. I think they gamble whether this is a safety for the child or not. If they think you are not going to go they waitlist you to see just how interested you are. My son was waitlisted at schools that he should have gotten in. But the schools were expensive and he would have needed big dollars so money is the number one factor. Also, he was applying for very competitive as well. with computer science and engineering being the hot ticket two years ago as well.