Congratulations! That’s amazing!
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We feel the exact same way. I fully expected 0. I read somewhere on Facebook that they only give out merit scholarships (not referring to Bright Futures) to only 10% of accepted students; and I figured that most of the 10% would be those accepted into Honors.
I saw that as well, but I think someone on here said that the Finanical Aid office was trying to raise the number of scholarships avaliable to get starting this year.
So it is very possible that they are still sending them out.
Regular email.
We’ll see, but I think it’s because i’m near the lower end of the admitted pool. Probably won’t be getting anything which is fine. I’m just in a difficult spot of choosing to attend my dream school, or a school I don’t really care for who gave me great aid (FSU).
Ok - I am going to need to re-read the contract later. However, this section still doesn’t clarify if there is a fee if you cancel on or before May 1st - only that you CAN cancel by May 1st. I was concerned because the section that I screen shot earlier shows fees associated even if you cancel by May 1st (but like Ae1231 stated, those fees might apply to Sophomore students and older).
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I remember reading that somewhere on their site. But I can’t find it again for the life of me. Maybe they removed that this year? Someone should contact housing and ask.
I totally understand where you are coming from. My daughter keeps going back and forth on UF (in part for the prestige), FSU (for the most savings) and UCF (for decent savings, plus Honors College and having her program there being highly ranked). Unfortunately, she did not apply to the Honors colleges for either FSU or UF because she went into this thinking she was going to UCF (and got tired of writing essays). To be honest, she feels so lucky and grateful to have been accepted; that she doesn’t really want to give it up. Also, UF is incredibly generous with accepting AP credits, dual enrollment, etc. (from what I heard) - so you can certainly offset a lot of the costs for UF that way.
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Yep - as soon as I get a response, I will report back here. If anyone else gets a response before I do, please help us out!
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The credit policy is super helpful. I’m loading up my summer with CLEP courses as well. As a sidenote, if anyone wants to do CLEP, this website will pay for you to take the exam if you take their online course. I think it’s a nonprofit philanthropy. https://modernstates.org/ It’s not a scam, I just got my first voucher today! And you can take the exam online now which is great.
I wonder if the scholarships that have gone out as of right now are OOS ones?
I saw both on reddit.
Wow - thanks so much! Now - I did read somewhere that they limit the # of credits that you can transfer in to 45 (I could be wrong, but I remember that number). So get all the credits you can, but don’t go overboard!
It is 45, I have the ones I need all planned out. I am going to try and do 6. But 45 credits is 15 3 credit classes, which is what most CLEPs are equivalent to!
We are instate and my son received his scholarship tonight.
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Wow - so you are going to try to take 6 classes this summer for 3 clep credits each??? You’ll be busy this summer. I’ve never had any experience with Clep - is it like AP exams?
It will be tough, but some are super easy (college composition which is 6 credits is super easy if you studied SAT english section). They are similar to AP but it’s multiple choice only, you get your score right away, and you can take at home.
Not sure - possibly. You might be right - I don’t remember anyone who received a scholarship today specifically stating that they are in-state.
Hey there
4.0u/5.1w - no idea what her re-calculated UF GPA is
Class Rank- #6 out of 525
ACT- 31, but 36 on English and Reading sections- one sitting
13 APs
4 year Women’s Varsity Golf, 4 year all state academic team - Women’s Varsity golf, a bunch of other stuff…
I’m sure it helped that she’s an English Lit/pre law major with the 36s on English/Reading.
I probably should have had her take the ACT again to bring up Science and Math, which she definitely could have done. It probably would have helped to get more merit aid in general, but I wasn’t super versed in the process at that point. Kind of kicking myself in that, but oh well…
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