<p>For those of you that have paid attention to the automatic scholarships longer than I have: </p>
<p>Have you seen the criteria (GPA and SAT scores) go up in the last few years? What about the scholarship dollar amounts?</p>
<p>D's SAT goal was to meet the 1300 SAT requirement. She was successful--yeah! and exceeded that, but I'm just curious what you've seen over the last few years. Changes will be posted on 6/1 according to the website, but I was wondering what might change.</p>
<p>3.75 and 1300 sat isn't that easy to get (probably about top 9% of SAT scores), and a lot of Indiana kids that get it probably have the means to go out of state. IU was expecting less than 400 Indiana kids to use the IU Excellence scholarship in the Fall 2008 freshman class, according to this article.</p>
<p>And the $8,000 for OOS students isn't really that much of an award when you factor in ten or eleven percent OOS fee increases each year. Even though SAT scores for this year's freshmen are probably the highest ever, I don't think the requirements will go up much, if at all, especially for in-state kids since not that many were predicted to take advantage of the IU Excellence scholarship and IU really wants to get more high in-state achievers. Also, the automatic scholarships have been rated in fifty point increments, and going from 1300 to 1350 for the IU Excellence would make a top 6% SAT necessary to qualify, and that is a lot higher than top 9%.</p>
<p>You're right bthomp1, it really doesn't make a huge impact on the overall cost. I received a 6,000 scholarship back in 2006 when OOS tuition was 20,472, making my tuition fees 14,472. Today, those same fees (only 2 years later) are now 18,779, going up over $4,000. That scholarship doesn't help out with that $4,000 increase.</p>
<p>If you want to look at it percentage-wise, initially the scholarship covered 46% of the out-of-state surcharge, 29% of the overall cost. This year, that 6,000 is only 36% of the out-of-state surcharge, and 24% of the overall cost. However, the actual numbers IMO are more telling than the percentage.</p>
<p>I wish that scholarships would be based on a percent of the fees, rather than a number. Many schools do this giving "half-tuition" awards, "full tuition" awards, or give students in-state rates, etc. </p>
<p>If not, change the fees so that they are fixed for 4 years. Don't want to do that? Then make the in-state and out-of-state tuition increases uniform by percentage. Why is the in-state percentage only increasing 5% while the out-of-state is increasing 11%?</p>
<p>This year my son will receive OOS scholarship $8,000/yr. That should cover room and board. We'll take what we can get!</p>