<p>Someone I know just got accepted with a huge scholarship. Did anyone else hear?</p>
<p>I just got my RD acceptance today (granted I’m within a 30 mile radius of the school) with ~37,000 a year scholarship and scholars notification.</p>
<p>My son is waiting to hear back as well. How are they notifying? Email, phone or snail mail?</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted in NJ today with a nice scholarship.
The notification is in a large folder of information with a postmark of 3/13 (yesterday).
Acceptances to date: Stevens, RPI, Northeastern, WPI, U Pitt
Deferral: CWRU
Denied: WUSTL</p>
<p>Snail mail is the answer…with a HUGE yes and a very nice scholarship.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Stevens, Northeastern, U Miami, still waiting to hear from Tufts.</p>
<p>I got my RD acceptance today in the mail with a $39k scholarship and offer to join Stevens Scholars</p>
<p>I got in today!</p>
<p>RD acceptance came in today with a $30.9k scholarship and invitation to the Scholars Program :)</p>
<p>Anyone who got scholars willing to share their stats? I’m still waiting in anticipation for a decision…</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone~</p>
<p>It looks like they save the bigger scholarships for the undecided, as I did not see any mention of higher amounts in ED1 and ED2 postings (I saw posts/heard about awards in the 15k-22k range).</p>
<p>It would be interesting to hear stats from those who got amounts ~30k.</p>
<p>S accepted with nice scholarship, surprisingly nice - definitely moved Stevens higher up on his list. </p>
<p>stats pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>Son got his acceptance today in NJ. 29000 presidential scholarship and invitation to 4+1 masters. he has 3.7 GPA and 2150 SAT . Very happy with this award. I hope he picks Stevens but he’s still undecided.</p>
<p>Accepted with a $40k scholarship, but no mention of Scholars (only 4+1). 3.0 GPA and 2180 SAT. Deciding between RPI, Northeastern, and UIUC right now, but with the huge amount of money I got from Stevens, it might be one of my top choices as well.</p>
<p>Got acceptance today…but unfortunately no merit. Hope fin aid comes thru. Also in at VTech, Clemson, Rutgers and UDel.</p>
<p>Accepted today with a $6k FIRST scholarship as well as a $33k Presidential Scholarship.</p>
<p>Also in at UCSD, UCR, UCLA (likely letter), and Wellesley. Rejected by CalTech and MIT. Waiting on a few more colleges. Will probably not be attending Stevens since I was hoping to be able to graduate without taking out loans, esp since my parents will not be supporting me through college at all. At $15k for housing and $5k more for tuition, a UC would cost about the same for me. :(</p>
<p>When you say $29000 and $33000 do yas mean a year or for all four years? Even with that much a year all of us that get these presidential scholarships still have get a $75,000-100,000 loan for the four years. :/. Even with the 5500 government loans a yr and work study just lowers it $7000 a year so still have to get like a total '$75000 loan. Am I missing something here is this the loans middle income kids are getting for a avg $50000 a year college price tag.</p>
<p>khorik- Scholars is based on SAT and also class percentile rank, if I am not mistaken. (They want SAT M and CR >1400, don’t think they consider essay) Is your GPA really 3.0? You have posted different GPAs on other threads and that you currently have 2 D’s in your APs? Seems weird.</p>
<p>Lovingharvard: Those amounts should be per year, for four years, or 8 semesters (if they choose to do co-op in between). Stevens does not award merit for housing/meal plan/fees, which usually comes to around 17k per year on top of tuition. The max merit would be the amount of tuition (highest award I know of is Neupauer Scholarship, which is full tuition for 8 semesters) You would need to seek out need-based aid to cover expenses beyond tuition.</p>
<p>COA for Stevens (in my experience) is around 58-60k when you add in books, tuition, room/board and fees.</p>
<p>Also if you do a co-op during the year, you will make around 8-12k for that semester (depending on company) that could offset your expenses. Co-ops pay well.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted with 1430 (cr+cm), 4.0 wgpa, , 8 APs, 6 in science and math. She was offered the 4+1 Masters, but not scholars, so the cutoff for scholars is higher.
My guess is that the merit scholarships may also reflect FA.</p>
<p>We’ll be at the admitted student day. Her scholarship offer was higher than that offered by RPI or Northeastern.
All three are serious contenders at this time.</p>
<p>The cutoff must be higher this year. Interviewer told us Scholars was generally over 1350, but it can vary with the applicant pool. </p>
<p>I agree with you about the scholarships. </p>
<p>I have had one son apply RD and one son apply ED1. Based on my experience, I would advise future applicants with SAT M & CR >1400 and GPA near 3.8-4.5 weighted to apply RD only, unless Stevens is their only choice. (And one college should never be your only choice.)</p>
<p>marymac btw if your daughter gets a 3.8 minimum GPA her first semester as Stevens she will be offered Scholars. This is very doable if she is a good student. <a href=“http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/academics/scholars.cfm”>http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/academics/scholars.cfm</a></p>
<p>The admitted students day at Stevens was really nice when we went last time. We plan to go as well.</p>