Hi @Gurteen Our tuition exchange experience this year has gone pretty much as expected. My D19 (ACT 31, superscore 33; GPA 3.5ish UW, lots of APs, very few ECs) applied for TE at Fordham, Loyola, University of Tampa, and Syracuse. She was accepted at all of the schools but only received TE at Syracuse, where anyone who gets in gets the scholarship. Luckily, the schools she didn’t get it from were not at the top of her list, so no harm done. She’s going to major in Finance and is torn between Syracuse and University of Buffalo right now. Not sure which way she’ll go.
Basically, she really couldn’t find many schools on the TE list that she could envision herself at. Those that she may have had a better chance at, she just wasn’t interested in. She applied to a couple of SUNY schools that she really liked, so we knew we’d have something that we could afford and she would enjoy. That made TE not as important or necessary for us. If it was, we would have had her broaden her search and apply to more places. I would have thought of Tampa as her best possibilty for TE, but they didn’t have TE available for freshman (at least that’s what they told me). Both Loyola and Tampa mentioned that she could probably get it starting her sophmore year.
My D17 had the stats that seem to attract the TE offers as she got TE scholarships at all 3 she applied to - WPI, Pitt, and University of Delaware (ACT 35, 3.9 UW GPA, lots of APs, lots of ECs). She did not apply for it at Case Western, as it was a total last minute application and we didn’t even think of it, but she did get a really good merit scholarship there (almost equivalent). She, unlike my D19, was not interested in any SUNY schools and wanted to go out of state, so it all worked out perfectly for her. She’s at Pitt and absolutely loves it.
Hope that helps. Good luck!