It is my understanding that everything has been awarded. My son applied for a supplemental scholarship and did not hear anything about it yesterday. We are assuming he was not selected.
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That’s my understanding as well. I guess even Alabama is pulling back on scholarships. We know several kids with similar resumes and lower ACT scores than DS who got full rides just a couple of years ago. 
That’s how Alabama got on our radar in the first place.
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My daughter emailed them with an offer from a similar college and asked for more $. They responded that they are done handing out money and that they had a large pool this year and it was extremely competitive. Also said they won’t match offers.
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I think that’s likely a public vs. private dynamic.
A public will have procedures that are - very tight and inflexible - as audits and other things will take place whereas a private might have more room to roam.
Just a hypothesis.
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Alabama came to our Texas HS and said they are like Arkansas and to not expect much beyond in state tuition if that, excluding NM of course.
Are you talking about additional $$? Until they change it, they have auto merit - so award by table - which is the minimum you’d earn but could be more with competitive.
If you’re in the top two spots - meaning a 3.5 with at least a 30 ACT, you’re below in state tuition (the list price). My daughter was at that second level ($24K) - but then the competitive scholarship got her up to the $28K.
Unless they are changing something, seems like an odd comment they would make.
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I think it’s because the biggest OOS Southern competition at our wealthy school is Arkansas and Ole Miss. A 30 ACT is pretty solid and could provide options at a variety of places. She seemed to want full pay kids from our school and thus the comment to not expect financial aid.
So we are figuring out this weekend which Bama Bound to attend. Blount sealed the deal for D24.
She had her 18 year well child visit yesterday and brought all the Bama paperwork and got her TB test. She had SO much paperwork to do for being 18 and was adulting so hard.
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If I applied as a physics major and want to switch to public health, will it be difficult since they are in different schools or does bama not admit specifically into certain schools?
Why not ask admissions?
I imagine you can do it (that anyone can) - but I’d ask the school - perhaps there’s a space constraint.
But you are national merit - so they’re going to bend over backwards if they can.
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Yeah I will. It’s just a saturday and they tend to take a while to respond even during the workweek, so I thought I’d ask here too to have an idea before Wednesday or whenever they email me back lol
They are coming off of spring break too. So, probably a couple extra days to get a response.
But I know kids change their majors at Bama Bound, so overall it’s possible. But I know nothing about public health.
It should not be. You go into degree works and change your major. Super easy.
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I just ran D24s AP credits and if she gets a 4 in English and a 3 on everything else (all of her previous scores are 4/5), she will start Bama as a sophomore!
She goes to a very small private school without a ton of APs (only 70 kids in her class and D is a humanities and definitely not a STEM kid) so I was pleased to see how many general education credits she is knocking out.
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It’s a great benefit! My son started as a sophomore, was a junior after a semester, and a senior after 3 semesters. Lol. That with honors gives some great scheduling opportunities. He has all of his general Ed classes covered before he arrived. He took the clep test for chemistry too.
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Tell us more lol !!!
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What do you want to know?
Basically, his AP and IB classes gave him credit for enough Humanities, Foreign language, history credits to count for all his general education requirements. Then he took the CLEP for chemistry over the summer and got 2 semesters credit for that. I think he started with 53 credits. I think he has 93 now after 3 semesters. He “repeated” credits from physics as IB gave him a different class than he needed.
Scheduling for the next semester is based on number of credits and status. So honors with senior status go first, by credit, then seniors go, then honors with junior status, then juniors, etc. He’s registering for his 3rd year of classes now and goes with honors seniors. He should have no problem getting the schedule he wants, since they are all 3rd year engineering classes. There are fewer choices in classes now, so it matters less, but last year it was a great benefit for sure.
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If you don’t mind, will you disclose what type of high school he went to: public/ private/ charter etc, and what state? Parents in our area are PO’d at our public school that offers few APs and no dual credit classes. Your example is helpful to push change here. TIA.
Also, very helpful that you explained how class registration works at UA. Makes me concerned at how hard it will be for kids coming in without college credits. I guess they have last dibs at registering for classes.
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Public in Michigan. Middle of the road, I’d say.
Incoming freshman register at Bama Bound, regardless of what they have for credits. They hold spots in classes that freshman typically take. After 1st semester, they are in the listing with everyone else. Coursicle is a great app for tracking openings and finding spots as they open. And FWIW, my son registered in June and then in July didn’t score high enough on IB Math, so had to completely change his schedule and was fine. It took a couple weeks of trying, but things he wanted/needed opened up. I don’t remember hearing about students not being able to get what they need for classes. I’m sure some get times they don’t want or have to move to a 2nd choice elective, but it seems the major required classes work out fine.
You can see the dates/times of registration here: Registration – The Office of the University Registrar – The University of Alabama | The University of Alabama
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UA is also very generous with CLEP credits. So this is an option for non-AP students. Study w/ Modern States for free and take free testing. Our current UA student got credit via CLEP for at least 15 credits.
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