this makes no sense at all! My son got into Mines with 14k scholarship for MechE but no scholarship from CU Boulder. We are planning on visiting these 2 schools soon. I think they both are solid for MechE.
We actually have visited both from the east coast and I would have thought that interest would have made some impact on the CU admission. Mines is a great engineering school (my son is a Mech Eng too). Very different from CU. One positive - my oldest, a U of Denver grad, would be far more ok with Mines over Boulder for his brother. I donât think CU is out of the mix. It just disappointed him to not get in Engineering or have merit.
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OOS Chemistry UW 3.75 accepted. Kid is in the middle of 1st semester finals, so I didnât explore the portal enough to see if there was merit offered in a 2nd letter. Nothing mentioned in the accept letter.
OOS D Admitted A&S. $7k/year merit award. 1560 SAT 4.0GPA. No APs offered. I havenât actually seen anything in her portal so I donât know anything else.
Same. My daughter is a direct admit to engineering at Mines and received twice as much merit money.
We are the same - only school that didnât offer my child merit so far and was accepted in to the Honors College at CU
My daughter did not submit scores and did get Merit, but not into Honors college 
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So then it really doesnât make sense that my son was offered Honors College but no merit aid. So odd. Well, CU Boulder is out.
Congrats to your son! Mine was definitely happy about Purdue, several of his friends were deferred. The number of applicants was crazy. Still waiting to hear from some other schools before a decision is made.
itâs hard not to take it personally b/c I did too when he got rejected not even deferred. It got me worried about other schools he applied but my son was very level headed and said, mom, I got rejected from 1 college and I have other options. 
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Such a great attitude! This whole process is so nerve wracking! Best of luck to your son!
Thank you so much!! we are waiting on couple of more as well and we wonât know till March to late March⊠sigh⊠this waiting gameâŠ
we are in the same boat as far as deciding between Purdue and possibly CU. My son was lucky enough to be direct into Aerospace at CU with a small scholarship, but Purdue also has the first year engineering program so they wouldnât be into a major there either. I actually donât like the fact that at Purdue they have to compete for those spots and Aerospace and even though they claim you need a 3.2 GPA during the first year but purdue aero is so selective that weâve heard of people not getting in even with that.
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I agree, I donât like that you have to compete to get into your major (I wasnât aware of that when he applied). I think my sonâs first choice is UIUC (we are in state) so the cost becomes much more manageable. But we just have to wait and see what happens over the next couple of weeks. Good luck to your son in making a decision!
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Accepted Economics OOS 1490 SAT 4.2 GPA 15 APs, got Presidential Scholarship merit aid
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Iâve calmed down about the exploratory studies today. Thank you to everyone who posted information about it.
It looks like she would have to take Calc 1, Calc 2 and a science class with grades of B- or better, plus Cs in everything else, to transfer into engineering. She has to take Calc 1 and 2 for the engineering major anyway. It actually makes sense to me because while she got 35s on the Reading and English sections of the ACT her math and science scores are a 30 and 29. They havenât fully denied her for engineering; they just want to make sure she is capable.
Plus Iâm seeing higher stats kids not get any merit, so we are grateful. It is still more expensive than all of our other choices though.
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Glad about this for you and your daughter. All the best to both of you.
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So kind; thank you!
We didnât get merit either, so weâll be thinking long and hard about whether we get better value elsewhere. My daughterâs hope requires a PhD.
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Any hope for teaching stipends in her field in graduate school? I had my Masters and PhD paid for, although I was broke for that entire time period.