<p>How many of you received notification of acceptance without any mention whatsoever of financial aid?</p>
<p>Those of you on the RD thread who said you were not awarded scholarships, did you get a notification that you were not awarded scholarships? Or did you simply not have any mention of financial aid in your packet?</p>
<p>Hmm… did you apply for financial aid?
My acceptance packet was 90% financial aid info. That’s a bit odd.</p>
<p>Yep. Son applied for financial aid. Was accepted to the college. Already got a nice scholarship from the conservatory, but applied double degree and had to wait to hear from the college.</p>
<p>There was at least one other person on the RD thread who mentioned that he/she had no mention of financial aid in their acceptance packet. There was one other person on that thread who mentioned that they got ONLY a financial aid letter, but no acceptance letter (!). </p>
<p>We were just curious as to how many other people got no mention at all of financial aid or scholarships in their Oberlin College acceptance packet. Could it be that conservatory kids get only one financial aid packet, and that it comes later?</p>
<p>Anybody else?</p>
<p>If you are talking about merit aid, as opposed to need-based, if your kid got a big award from the conservatory (e.g., in connection with an early review application), you may not get an additional one from the college. (In the end, the packages are coming from a single financial aid office, though the rationales behind the offers are different and the con is more generous because it is competing with some attractive alternatives – in the realm of top LAC’s Oberlin is one of the few that gives merit aid). If there was nothing in the acceptance letter, there may well not be any college scholarship coming, even if your kid has great stats and would likely have been offered a merit scholarship from the college if that was the only application. In terms of negotiating for increased aid, you may have better luck with the con than the college.</p>
<p>We have a friend who was accepted to Oberlin college who had his merit award info in his acceptance, with suggestion that they would help with loans if necessary. My son was emaiedl conservatory acceptance, then received merit aid in his letter. The merit aid letter reads: “In the event that you applied for and have been granted financial aid, this special Conservatory recognition will be reflected in your financial aid package.” I get the impression that FA info will come later.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks, mamenyu and SJTH.</p>
<p>I wasn’t necessarily talking merit aid OR financial need-based aid (don’t think we’ll qualify for any anyway), but just a general financial aid letter or something, since posters on the other thread mentioned that they got a financial aid letter in their acceptance packet – and since Oberlin says you’ll be notified of financial aid with notification of acceptance.</p>
<p>Like tealberry, post #2 here. He says his acceptance packet was 90% financial aid info.</p>
<p>Son got absolutely no mention of FA info in his packet. No flyer or pamphlet or letter or anything. Just curious. I think he’s gonna call Oberlin FA or admissions tomorrow just to make sure there wasn’t a mistake.</p>
<p>If you didn’t apply for financial aid and weren’t awarded merit aid, then there presumably wouldn’t be any mention of financial aid with your acceptance.</p>
<p>Again, son DID apply for financial aid.</p>
<p>Ah, I misunderstood your post. In that case, you should definitely contact them to see whether there’s been some glitch or delay in the process.</p>
<p>hi simplelife. we’re in same situation - my daughter applied to college and conservatory, and also for financial aid. She has received email notification of acceptance to con, has received packet informing her of acceptance to college, plus a relatively small merit award from college. No information about financial aid in general, and no official paper correspondence from conservatory yet. I assume that it will arrive tomorrow. If not, we’ll call on Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>hi memake. My son is going to call after he gets home from school today, just to make sure there’s no mistake. He did not get notification of a merit award either. He did get a generous conservatory award though, months ago.</p>
<p>dave72, do you by any chance work for Oberlin? I’m just guessing. I saw on another post that you’re a grad. Can you get my son full-tuition, please?</p>
<p>(jk, of course)</p>
<p>I’m on the faculty, not in the admissions (or financial aid!) office.</p>
<p>Oh, on the faculty. Very cool. Nice job.</p>
<p>I was the one on the other thread with no financial aid info. I called them today, and it turns out that my dad never sent in his noncustodial parent information (which he claimed he had). If you haven’t received your aid info yet, definitely call and find out what the problem is. You don’t want to end up unable to go because of a silly missing form or something. Good luck!</p>
<p>We are in the same situation. S received his acceptance to double degree program (conservatory and college) with scholarship but no financial aid information in either envelope.</p>
<p>Financial aid came in the mail on April 2nd, btw, separate from the rest of son’s acceptance packet.</p>
<p>Yeah, our’s came late in snail mail too. However, we viewed it a few days earlier online. You could’ve done the same. </p>
<p>The snail mail packet was rather thorough. The most impressive I’ve seen from any school. </p>
<p>It wasn’t just a one page letter with numbers on it. There was a four-page, color financial “newsletter”; a cover letter from the Director of Financial Aid; a one page insert breakdown of the numbers for my daughter and what they mean; and a two-page insert Financing Options Fact Sheet. There is even stuff in there about financial aid probation and an Oberlin “Satisfactory Academic Progress [SAP] Minimums Chart” that has me kinda worried because it is so prominent.</p>
<p>Question to Plainsman: is the on-line financial award exactly the same as your snail mail one? I already checked my on-line one, and was curious whether or not any numbers changed once you recieved your snail mail FA package. Thanks.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>It’s the same. I was hoping for more. 
Darn it.</p>