We are still waiting for scholarship information to be sent out. My D18 is 99.9% sure she wants to attend UC - she was a direct admit into ID in DAAP. My question is, do they base any scholarship decisions on whether or not you’ve confirmed admission? ie…Will it hurt my D in terms of scholarship consideration if she’s already confirmed her admission. Is there a reason to hold out?
Why do it now? Why not wait until you can make a fully-informed decision with scholarship info and decisions/scholarships from any other schools?
@evergreen5 the rational side of me knows that’s what we should do. I think I just want this whole process over with. 
Thanks for talking me down off the ledge.
I asked this question to my daughter’s coach when D had the choice of committing early (Nov) or waiting until the spring. She told me there would be no more money (no way to know if that was true) but that there was a big relief in making the decision final. She was right! There was a calmness when the decision was final.
@twoinanddone I’m looking for that calmness!
Wait on the scholarship information. Schools use merit $ to lure kids who may go elsewhere.
Wait on confirming the admission decision until your daughter hears from UC and all the other colleges she’s applied to. There is no harm from waiting.
However, as to whether UC competes with other schools with scholarship money, from our experience with DAAP they do not. Our daughter received a full-ride offer from University of Michigan’s school of design, and we presented that to the DAAP admissions office, but it didn’t bring a single dollar of extra UC scholarship money. In the end our daughter decided to go to UC DAAP anyway, and is very happy with her decision.
Totally different school but we gambled that way last year and lost.
D was a finalist for the Chancellor’s Scholarship—a full ride at University of Pittsburgh. D was convinced that showing them she was “all in” would be to her advantage and she told them so in her three hour interview.
Turns out that wasn’t the case! Hard to know what tipped them the other way but I can say wholeheartedly it did not sway them towards a yes decision.
If we had it to do all over again I would say no. But we were young innocents to the game lol!