<p>He’s been accepted to Penn State UP for Engineering, the Engineering and Honors Colleges at the University of Alabama (four years free tuition, plus $2,500 a year for engineering), Union College and their Union College Scholars Program (about $10,000 a year over our budget as of now), and Macalester College with EXCELLENT financial aid, but they don’t have engineering. Still, they have great math and computer science departments, so it’s a terrific option for him. We’ll be visiting in a couple weeks for the first time.</p>
<p>He’s still waiting on on a couple other schools, but they’re very high reaches, and given his outcomes thus far, I’m going to assume the news isn’t going to be good. </p>
<p>International here…Accepted…Received an email…the personalised letter was a nice touch
Going to wait for the financial aid award now… wondering if it will arrive through Fedex packet…</p>
<p>@skedeebs, thanks for your kind words. It will be okay–he has some great offers, but this was really one of his top two choices, and the one he thought he had a really good shot at. I’m sorry that our inability to pay full price may have kept him from being able to go there, but he knew we needed the merit money to make it affordable. The wait list letter was VERY clear that he met all the academic qualifications for admission, but that they had to protect against over-enrolling. I think an ED application would have gotten him in, but we’ll never know for sure.</p>
<p>I have to say, a LOT of people warned me to steer clear of schools like Lafayette that are clearly NOT need-blind in terms of admissions, but then you end up wondering “what if?” Nothing ventured, nothing gained!</p>
<p>My daughter, on the other hand, did not receive the decision today, and we live in Fairfax VA. I am shocked that the post office didn’t get it to us. Of course, with so many shocked by wait list decisions, I am not so sure I want to see it.</p>
<p>International here, rejected too. They said they couldn’t provide any financial assistance. First college to be straightforward with the money issue, I give them that.</p>
<p>International and accepted!!! do you guys receive financial aid information attached along with the email (which is very nice, btw)? i have this weird editdata.mso attached with my email but i just cant find a way to open it </p>
<p>Hi ChiNguyen, the financial aid information isn’t attached with the email, and we will most probably know about the aid in the admission admission packet mailed.
Don’t worry about the editdata.mso ( I searched for it and I found… “This issue can occur when the sender is using Outlook 2003 or previous and have Word set as your email editor”)</p>
<p>DS accepted, but not sure we can work it with the FA package. Yes 100% of “need” met but that includes loans and actual need isn’t the same as CSS need… Love Lafayette, loved the personalized acceptance letter, but it isn’t looking good for eventual attendence</p>
<p>I suggest you call the Office of Financial Aid. If you disagree about what your financial need is, sometimes you can win over more money from them. It doesn’t happen very often but it <em>does</em> happen. You have nothing to lose by negotiating with them, so it’s worth a shot!</p>
<p>Wow! Like a number of you or your kids, my daughter was placed on the wait list. I would never have guessed. I must say that there is no need to bother with a chance to be accepted late but get no scholarship money.</p>
<p>I’m super pumped, Accepted with a 55k grant. Unbelievable, I can’t freaking believe it, I expected nowhere near that aid. Heck, I didn’t expect to get in, I didn’t get a chance to interview. </p>
