<p>Hey everyone! Congrats on being admitted first of all :) </p>
<p>I'm wondering now if we can have a discussion about financial aid and scholarships while we wait for the next packet of information to arrive. The acceptance email said before April 5th I believe? </p>
<p>I'm waiting to see if I can get a scholarship because that's the only way I will consider Pepperdine. I know I don't get any aid because my parents combined income is too high for any aid. </p>
<p>My admissions counselor sent me an email stating the top 10% of admitted students get merit scholarships. 22K to 26K I believe. Wondering how hard it will be for me to get some $ if its based on just numbers. </p>
<p>If anyone wants me to copy and paste his email, let me know! </p>
<p>Hi!
Yeah I’m definitely in the same boat as you. I can’t really consider Pepperdine unless I get at least SOME form of financial help. I’m nervous for that email!</p>
<p>Perhaps this isn’t the perfect place to post this but since my friend goes to Pepperdine and I am considering to go there (I m 7th grader which means I still have lots of time XD)
I am just curious will applying for FA hurt your chances?? Especially when I am an international student??
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>@bmsanana: Fingers crossed for the both of us!! </p>
<p>@ABien990: Wow 7th grade haha. I’m not sure if Pepperdine is need blind actually but I would assume it doesn’t hurt your chances at all if you apply for financial aid. Pepperdine is very pricey and I’m going to go out on a limb and say most people who apply to Pepperdine don’t expect to drop 40-50K a year to attend. They definitely help people out with aid and scholarships, as any other school would. Don’t withdraw from applying for FA just because you think it’ll increase your chances of getting in. That’s just stupid to be frank. You might miss out on whatever aid they would have offered you if accepted</p>
<p>Pepperdine is need blind, thankfully, but they don’t meet 100% of financial need. They do give generous scholarships to the top 10% of the entering class, which is a fairly small number so you need nearly perfect stats to recieve that aid. At the end of the day though, it’s a very expensive school and since it’s fairly selective they want to help out the people who they do select and give them the opportunity to attend.</p>
<p>The near perfect stats part is a bit worrisome to me at this point. I have a 4.0 UW gpa but my SAT score could be higher. That’s the mystery of it all, you don’t know what the stats of the other students in the applicant pool look like.</p>
<p>I’m the opposite! 3.7 UW, 2180 SAT. I feel like the GPA will kill me. It’s a shame, because I don’t qualify for much aid but definitely can’t afford full tuition.</p>
<p>Same situation as all of you - I don’t think I am eligible for any need-based aid but I am really, really hoping for a scholarship. I haven’t gotten any major scholarships from any other schools I’ve applied to so I’m hoping Pepperdine will break that trend. Otherwise I probably won’t have the chance to go. The fact that the number accepted is so small (~800 students? Wow) gives me more hope though that generally a good amount of us will receive something. However my unweighted GPA is disgustingly low (around 3.6) but perhaps my ACT can redeem me (30). We’ll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>They have 800 spots but not every accepted student will matriculate so they probably accepted about 3 times that amount. Either way, it’s a pretty small amount.</p>
<p>Just got it! They offered me the Dean’s Scholarship and I am so excited because I didn’t expect to get anything! Pepperdine just moved to the top of my list ;)</p>
<p>It’s actually a tuition exchange scholarship. My mom works at another private university so I can apply for the 80% tuition scholarship at Pepperdine as long as it’s a participating university!</p>
<p>bmsanana and ryandoyle99, sounds like you all got great deals but from looking at this webpage it sounds like more of a Tuition Exchange Program rather than a merit or needs based scholarship but either way you are getting great financial aid.</p>
<p>From looking at the link it looks like the exchange program is also competitive (based upon merit) but is a special program outside of Pepperdine’s general merit aid program.</p>