<p>I keep hearing that everyone gets money...and maybe that will also be true on the admittedly skewed CC board. However, my son was recently admitted without a scholarship. Anyone else willing to admit it? :-)</p>
<p>I know there was at least one other poster in a different thread that said they got no scholarship offer. But you are right that it will be skewed on this site.</p>
<p>I would LOVE to be able to admit my daughter got in with no merit $$ - if she is admitted, there is no way she will receive any merit $$ - and I will be very happy to say she was accepted with no merit $$!!! Still waiting…she’s on the borderline…</p>
<p>You are right, ReadyToRoll. I keep forgetting that those posting on this site are more likely to get merit money. We are still waiting for the letter and hoping, hoping, hoping for money. Without it, my d won’t be able to enroll. It’s been a week and a half since the admissions decision on the site.</p>
<p>D received formal letter with no scholarship offer. She e-mailed AC and asked if that indicated she would not be offered any money. AC advised that any offer of scholarship would have been in formal letter.</p>
<p>I have heard from so many people (outside of CC) that Tulane is very generous with their merit aid to entice students to attend. My d has been accepted (as seen online) but is anxiously awaiting her letter in the mail. Does anyone know if there are minimum stats for merit scholarship money or if you needed to indicated you plan to apply for scholarship on the application?</p>
<p>Got letter today with no offer of money. I can’t say it was totally unexpected but still… Does anyone know anything about the community service scholarships other than what is on the website?</p>
<p>How long did it take to receive your formal letter?</p>
<p>it took exactly two weeks</p>
<p>Just to keep us smiling, d received an e mail today (same day as snail mail acceptance and 2 weeks after online acceptance) asking her to apply!</p>
<p>nj_mom: You cannot indicate applying for scholarship on application, all accepted students are considered for the main merit scholarships. You apply separately for two scholarships (DHS and Community Service), and there are a number that are Louisiana residents only. There would, of course, be no point in applying for the DHS if you were not offered the Presidential (25K) in the acceptance letter. As far as minimum stats, there is nothing official. I can only assume they have some formula, either an actual one or an understood one, that uses test scores and grades, with some human consideration for EC’s. But that is just my guess, I don’t know how they really do it, although I can’t be too far off. I mean, how else could they do it?</p>
<p>This is what was written on the Tulane website. “Recipients generally earn a 2250 or higher on the SATs or a 33 on the ACT and possess outstanding high school records and recommendations along with breadth and depth in extracurricular activities.”</p>
<p>Yes, but that is for the DHS. The three levels of scholarships that don’t require applications have lesser requirements. I have never seen similar specifics for the Presidential, Distinguished Scholars, or Founders Awards. The first two just say
while the Founders, which I think is the least amount, says
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<p>I just noticed this. Why would one not want to apply for the DHS if they hadn’t been offered some other scholarship? </p>
<p>My S had a 2060 (1450 m/v) SAT but was not offered any money. I’m assuming it’s because of his GPA which was 3.24, although the mean GPA at his school is apparently 2.7 according to the profile, and I’ve seen schools with mean GPAs of 3.5, so I guess there is some grade deflation at the school, or grade inflation at other schools. Regardless, wouldn’t people who have not receive any money at all be the ones wanting to apply for scholarships?</p>
<p>No, I think you are missing the fact that the DHS is the top scholarship, full tuition for all 4 years no matter how much it goes up. It is very competitive, and awarded on the basis of merit only. So since it is better to have a full tuition scholarship rather than $25K (great as that is), the students with the best stats apply. There are only 75 offered (last year, apparently it used to be 100) out of over 1000 applicants, so students with stats that didn’t warrant a Presidential offer have virtually no chance at the DHS. And while there are no official restrictions on who can apply for the DHS, Tulane does state on their web site
and in another part of the web site it says
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<p>I hope that clears up the confusion.</p>
<p>I should have added that there is also the Community Service Scholarship. While it has academic achievement as part of the consideration, it emphasizes service very heavily, and so if your S is strong here, he should go for it. The award is lower, $5,000 - $15,000/year but hey, money is money. My guess is that it is still an unlikely prospect if Tulane didn’t think his stats were strong enough for a merit scholarship at any level, but I am not the one making the awards.</p>
<p>I do think that if his high school is really that competitive, it is worth somehow making sure the admissions office knows that. You might even want to appeal that he didn’t get $7,500/year merit, which I think is their lowest of the non-application awards. Just be sure you are right about that 2.7 average and that it is due to tough grading and not a lower performing high school. I don’t mean to be insulting, it might be a private school for all I know. It is just the scientist in me sifting through alternative explanations for that average GPA.</p>
<p>My daughter did end up getting money in her acceptance letter which arrived yesterday, exactly one week from when she was accepted online. The award was called Academic Achievement Award (which I had not seen on the website at all or read before on CC) and was for $15,000/year.</p>
<p>I thought the DHS was the “box” scholarship. If it’s only based on straight merit, then why ask for creative responses?</p>
<p>The school is a top New England high school which send about ten percent of kids to Ivys every year. Those kids have 3.8 or better averages though. I’ll bet the standard deviation is high even if the mean GPA is 2.7. But really, how does one appeal an award? After all, it may be that he got in in the first place because they actually looked at the profile and determined that his grades might not be as “off” versus his test scores as they might in another school…</p>
<p>nj_mom, if you don’t mind, can you share your daughter’s stats?
I’m anxiously waiting for my formal letter, and I’m just wondering if I got a shot at all at some merit money</p>
<p>nj_mom - I saw that award when I was researching for the latest info the other night, but it wasn’t clear if that was the title category for the other three or a separate one. So it seems they have 4 “automatic consideration” scholarship levels, Presidental, Distinguished Scholar, Founders, and Academic Achievement. Good to know.</p>
<p>ReadyToRoll - the DHS is the box scholarship. The ability to be creative with the box and express that creativity is a type of merit. So many of the students applying for it have similar high level stats, the box projects helps them make a final decision among amazingly talented and accomplished students. In any case, Tulane indicates the academic merit “required” to be considered, as I quoted.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to be argumentative for its own sake, but unless your school has a very “haves and have nots” population, that 2.7 seems unlikely given what you say about the Ivy contingent. What it does tell me is that if it is true, he should be in the top 20% of his class, because there would have to be a large group dragging down the average. If your guidance office can verify it, you can appeal by waiting for his first semester grades and submitting those if they are very very good. The guidance office could accompany that with a note saying what you have said, stressing his class rank. You tell Tulane (his admissions officer) that he would really like to go there but money is a bit of an issue, and that you just thought given his SAT’s and his grades RELATIVE to his high school peers and his strong first semester grades (if they are) that he might at least qualify for some award. There are a number of factors here I either never knew or don’t remember such as AP’s taken, EC’s, quality of recs, etc. These certainly factor in as well. But if all that stacks up reasonably well, then I would talk to admissions after you have the updated information. BTW, I just found your thread about Tulane full freight vs. OOS schools, and made a posting there. I was looking to see if you had posted your S’s stats, but I never found them.</p>