nope. He goes to highly competitive school with over 550 students per grade. even with 4.4 gpa, over 10 ap + 3 currently enrolled, over 5 honors and over 6 ap subject test (4 or 5 score). Excellen ECs. Not sure how much kids should accomplish for scholarships. I feel sorry for him. I know he put his heart out to earn all these. How do we know SC GPA scale for his out-of-state GPA scale? does the university converts it for merits. Can we ask them whats is his SC GPA?
also 34 act/1550 sat. How does USC sees Dual enrollment courses? as AP?
I didnât mean is the school not ranked. I meant is it a school that reports a class rank for their students. My sonâs large public school in NoVA (also high regarded) does not use or report class rank.
I suspect South Carolinaâs criteria for merit is based on SC GPA + SAT/ACT + class rank, based on their description of their scholarships. I donât think our kids not having merit in their letters means they are not getting merit. I suspect it means there is some variable that makes it more difficult to use their formula to compute it and report it immediately, and that itâs likely weâll get some sort of notification later. I just want to figure out what exactly the variable is that makes it harder.
I found a website that helped me estimate SC GPA if youâre interested. I can post it here.
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please post the link. His school is highly ranked as well. It does give ranks. He is definately not in top 50. Like I said highly competitive. Given that his health intervened with his academics despite has hard work he could not outperform others. most of this summers he took break unlike others who took DE. canât we just ask USC? Cause that like hearing from horse mouth.
We are in NoVa (Fairfax), no rank, but DD got merit in the acceptance letter.
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which program she got admission into
I used this table and just picked the middle grade (95, 85, etc) and used the associated GPA.
Iâm sure we can ask. I asked Clemson Financial Aid and they said most people got their notifications with their admission but it was still possible he would get merit. Iâm going to wait it out with SC and see what happens in the next few days.
Best of luck!
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Math
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My daughterâs letter said she received a merit based scholarship with tuition reduction worth $11k per year. Does that mean it is in state tuition plus the scholarship?
Are you OOS? We got this message (OOS): âyou will receive a scholarship that qualifies you to pay the same tuition rate as South Carolina residents. The value of this tuition reduction plus scholarship is worth at least $100,000 over the course of four years of study!â
We are out of state. Wording was.
The value of this tuition reduction plus scholarship is worth atleast $44k over 4 years.
This doesnât mean we get in state tuition as well does it?
No- that means you get 11k/year off the OOS tuition rate. If you google, you will see the levels of scholarship for out of state. I believe one or two above that level is where it jumps to granting in-state tuition to high stat OOS students.
Good Luck to you as well.
Auburn and UDelâŠ.equally as strong as where you didnât get in - so youâre in GREAT shape. Congrats on those.
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Our merit came later and not with the acceptance letter. It was the same for many of the students last year.
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Ours came later.
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Wow! That was hard⊠deferred OOS w/ 4.3 (not sure SC calculated) test optional and tons of ECâs related to major, unfortunately 25+ applicants from same school, that sucks! Weâre hoping for regular because that seems like the trend here.
You are giving me hope!
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I am sure your child will get in via RD or even Waitlist. This happened to my older child⊠got in off of waitlist & with merit (the one we were expecting during EA) ⊠so who knows? Boat loads of applications makes it all so very interesting!