<p>This looks like a very good school. Any merit possibilities here? My dtr has 4.25 GPA SAT 1260 . Nice campus?</p>
<p>Maybe… I know someone that was offered 10,000, but did better at Tulane. Her SATs were higher (1350-old), but gpa was lower (probably 3.6-3.8 area), but a very competitive hs.</p>
<p>Haven’t visited but was on my son’s short list as a safety school (he had a 4.2 gpa and 1550 SAT) with good merit aid.</p>
<p><a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/financial/merit.shtm[/url]”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/financial/merit.shtm</a></p>
<p>Campus is very nice but nothing around it within walking distance (other than the attached medical center, which is another good reason to go there if you are interested in medicine).
If you want merit aid make sure you do an interview. My d did not and only got $5000 which would not make much of a dent in the +$40,000 cost.
They also do not care what other schools are offering (some schools may increase merit aid if you show a better offer from a comparable school).</p>
<p>Definitely have to apply early for merit aid (Dec 1?) and visit for an on-campus interview with an admissions officer.</p>
<p>Go to the following URL for our high school:</p>
<p><a href=“https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=wootton[/url]”>https://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=wootton</a></p>
<p>Click on as “guest.” Go to the college lookup for NY schools and check out Unervisity of Rochester. It will tell you who got accepted?rejected by SAT and weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Just for the record, our school weights grades. If you are in honors or AP, you get an extra points. Thus, an "A " in an honors or AP is worth 5 points and not the normal 4 points. A “B” is worth 4 points in an honors or AP course but would be worth only 3 points in a regular course.</p>
<p>I don’t think that they give extra ponts if you acheive a “C” or below.</p>
<p>Generally, if you want to evaluate chances for merit aid, a student needs to be in the top 20% or higher for those admitted. For some schools, a student would need to be in the top 10% of those admitted. Certainly, each school has their own criteria.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Thanks, taxguy. I wish our school had scattergrams! We do have info online, but it’s just a list of SATs and GPAs and other grades. With the scattergrams it’s really easy to visualize if a college is more GPA focused, test-score focused, or more “holistic.”</p>
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<p>That’s a great list, Northeastmom! I have a question: When looking at each high school’s stats, what’s the best way to see if the school is on a 4.0 GPA scale or a 5.0 or something else?</p>
<p>I wish I could give reliable information. I don’t know much about naviance since our hs does not use it.</p>
<p>It gets very very cold at Rochester. So cold that they have underground tunnels to get between buildings. But it is a very good school, especially for the arts and for psychology. Given your childs’ SAT, I would doubt that she would get any substantial merit packages, but you never know. When applying to Rochester, a 1550 SAT with 4.7 gpa on 5.0 scale gave more than substantial merit aid.</p>
<p>I think Rochester is an excellent school. Two of my sons applied and a third attended the Eastman School of Music. Both the sons who applied were offered merit aid, but they had higher SATs. Usually students with SATs over 1400 or so are offered $10000. Lovely campus, hard working students. As in most places, some departments are better than others, but overall a very strong school.</p>
<p>Financial aid at Eastman is entirely separate from U of Rochester. </p>
<p>Also, MANY colleges have underground tunnels in the northeast. That’s nothing special.</p>
<p>There is a merit program available to winners of the Bausch and Lomb Science Award. My son received it his junior year at our high school and we received a letter from Univ. of Rochester that he would be guaranteed merit money.</p>
<p>"Financial aid at Eastman is entirely separate from U of Rochester. "</p>
<p>That is true although we were pleasantly surprised to find that my son’s NM scholarship was available at Eastman through U of Rochester.</p>