I can answer my own question. Email was received today.
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what is the amount received? also is it only for honors program accepted kids or kids rejected from Honors also receive any scholarship amount?
It’s for honors accepted. The amount received varies. I’d rather not specify but I’ve seen 8k/yr on the low end and 34k/yr on the high end. That high is more than the cost of attendance, so I believe you can pocket the rest.
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Anyone knows if CSB honors students get merit schlorship?
Are there any students accepted to CS on February 7 still waiting for Turing decision?
Were they notified by email that they had new information in their portal? Not sure my kid would go back to a rejection portal.
Turing still shows in-review, accepted for CSB.
update also got into plan ii!!!
edit: and waiting on polymath
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D got into CS on Jan15th and Turing still shows in Review. She got into CSB last week. So far looks like 2 Turing waves came in since Jan15th but from the looks of it very few students got in for turing and rest are in Review. Haven’t heard any rejections for Turing, though heard for CSB. I heard they might be going by school for Turing. Has you or anyone from your school recently got in for Turing?
Thank you all for replying!
No, he said no one has said anything.
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Still waiting for Turing
Same on Polymath, really hoping for that. OOS but I did get TWBH, not sure if they conflict.
I am pretty sure CAP and PACE are only offered to in State applicants.
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UT actually puts its big endowment to use to reduce or zero out Tuition and now a new scholarship to apply toward housing for kids whose families earn less than $100K. Merit is not much of a thing, at least not for Freshman, but departmental scholarships can be later.
I think with so many kids being in the top of the top, its kinda hard to offer “Merit” when clearly so many would qualify. Then how do you choose? Which Valedictorian gets which merit scholarship? (Actually all Texas Valedictorians get 2 free tuition semesters at UT)
I have often wondered this as well. I can share my first LHs experience… In my LHD’s top 10 in HS, 7 of the top 10 applied, were admitted and attended UT. That included our Valedictorian and #3 and my LHD #4. 1 of the remaining three went Ivy (#2) and the other 2 to large flagships OOS. I don’t recall any of the top 10 not receiving their first choice majors. That said, all had stellar applications and many many admittances elsewhere. My LHD applied to 11, all high reaches since she knew she could go to UT, she got into 5, waitlisted at 2 and denied at 4. Not bad, but all tallied, she could not attend any of the other schools for less than or even equal to the cost of UT.
Can you give some examples of schools where in state Texas students are going to OOS schools for “far less” than UT? Are you including just the $11,500 tuition or also room & board? Just wanting to see where these amazing top 100 schools are one of my kids should have applied to to have spent less on than UT?
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Sure, most of the SEC schools will offer serious money to a kid who has the stats to get into Texas. Alabama, Auburn, OU, Arkansas, certainly the Mississippi schools, South Carolina all offer varying levels of merit that make them cheaper than in state tuition for most Texas residents with the stats to get into Texas. Now you can argue that Texas is a better school than those and be correct but the problem is Texas is our In State school. I gave examples of North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida all of which offer heavy merit for In State students and those are all good comparables with Texas and A&M. UNC/Texas/UF/Georgia Tech are all of similar caliber with UGA/A&M/NC State being very close. All of them are between 5 and 30 in most Public School rankings.
The thing is though Texas and the State of Texas are far wealthier than any of those states. The choice is to give tuition based on parent’s income and not merit to an extreme. Other states simply don’t operate that way. Certainly more is there for Need based aid and that’s fine but there is very little merit available for most In State students at A&M or Texas. North Carolina probably provides the least at UNC/NC State (still far more than Texas or A&M) but In State tuition is about half of Texas and A&M to start.
It’s just a choice of priority on where the money is spent. A&M has a multiple ways to get OOS tuition waivers as well if you can get a $4k scholarship or get a Corps scholarship or if you are in the Maritime Academy in Galveston. To me the point of having Flagships is to serve the taxpayers of the state first. Plenty of private schools are happy to provide Need based aid (many only offer Need based aid) for that matter as are outside scholarships. The reality is what your parents make also is often disconnected with what they are willing (or are able) to spend on their kid’s education. FAFSA is a joke and manipulted 100 different ways because it simply doesn’t work. How much your parents make should not be the main driver of how much you pay for college at a public school. Privates can do whatever they want.
It seems to be that the kids who need the most help are those whose families cannot afford to pay for college.
For families who are making more than $125K per year, tuition of $11.5K per year is a little more than other large SEC flagships in your list, but the extra $4K is likely not a deal breaker for someone whose income is above the national average. Access to loans is also easier for those in the higher incomes. No one is guaranteed a free education in this country.
For the privates that focus solely on need, these tend to the be the top educational institutions in the country and those costs are offset by the $80K cost paid by others who don’t qualify for financial aid.
I have to admit i don’t understand your issues with FAFSA, having filled it out for the past 6 years. Can you elaborate?
There is an entire industry designed around manipulating FAFSA. If you have the resources or structure you can make your income what you want it to be, especially if you own a business. That’s one problem. The larger problem is the general philosophy that some bureaucrat gets to decide what income is too much or not enough and penalize or reward your child based on that. My favorite part of FAFSA is you are actually penalized for saving money for college as it is counted against you.
I prefer what other states do in lowering the costs for all and offering lots and lots of merit options so that kids who achieve academically are rewarded with less expensive education and an opportunity not to graduate with massive debt. Those large SEC flagships offer tons of merit options that Texas and A&M simply don’t. It’s not from lack of resources that’s for sure, it’s just a lack of priorities in doing so. Like I said if Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina manage to have their best students go to school at their Flagships for far less or for no tuition at all at a much higher rate. I just can’t understand why we don’t want to do the same for smart kids that want an education here.
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