So even if you are not “sure” if AU or another “PUBLIC” University is for you. Take the acceptance, pay the admittance fee, and apply for internal scholarships. Then come mid-April you know exactly where you stand financially with the schools applied for. You can accept at as many “PUBLIC universities” as you want. They are not binding or Restrictive.
The above does NOT APPLY TO PRIVATE Universities, they are ALL “Restricted EARLY Action”. You Accept You GO, or else you get sued. Literally. So my son having Notre Dame as his “Dream School” if he gets in. He’s going, if not it’s down to AU and A&M and who gives more money.
Some of your comments aren’t accurate. EA or REA are an application status only. You can’t accept admissions to unlimited Public schools, some schools will cancel your admission if you do this, publics included. My older son c/o 2022 also applied to ND and other publics EA, so I am familiar with this process. Here is the Notre Dame website info for REA…
Restrictive Early Action: November 1
Notre Dame has a non-binding Restrictive Early Action program.
A student applying Restrictive Early Action to Notre Dame may apply to other Early Action programs at either private or public colleges or universities.
A student applying Restrictive Early Action to Notre Dame may not apply to any college or university (private or public) in their binding Early Decision 1 program.
If you apply to Notre Dame through REA, you may apply to any Early Decision 2 program as this has a deadline post our REA decision release in mid-December.
It is expected that should you apply to an Early Decision 2 program and be admitted to that school you would immediately withdraw your application to Notre Dame as this is a binding agreement to that other institution.
If you are applying to another school’s Single Choice admission plan, please reach out to that institution regarding any restrictions.
Students do not indicate a first-choice preference by applying early and still may wait until May 1 to indicate their decision to attend.
On rare occasions, students will request to move their Regular Decision application to Restrictive Early Action. If you have submitted your Regular Decision application by the Restrictive Early Action deadline of November 1, you may make this request through your applicant status portal no later than November 15.
At no schools that S23 applied to last year (several Public’s among them) did we need to accept and pay the admittance fee before consideration of internal scholarships. As @HCAllred said, you can’t accept admissions to unlimited schools. You can apply to unlimited schools and continue to work through the full financial aid/scholarship process right up until the acceptance date (usually 5/1) but I would be very leery of any school that told me I had to place a deposit ($200-$1K) to hold the space at that school before they would share the full financial picture.
There’s actually very few schools that do REA - I’m not sure if you mean Early Decision (ED) to which you can only do one, maybe two in the case of schools that have EDII.
That sounds awesome! We are definitely looking forward to the visit! Best of luck! I hope we are all correct about tomorrow being the day for decisions!
If your son applied using the Common App, he expressly agreed to accept admission to only one school.
“I affirm that I will send an enrollment deposit (or equivalent) to only one institution; sending multiple deposits (or equivalent) may result in the withdrawal of my admission offers from all institutions.”
Just so others aren’t misled, for the Florida Bright Futures scholarship a student is also required a minimum number of volunteer hours and/or employment, in addition to GPA and SAT/ACT score. Also, Bright Futures covers tuition and fees, but does not include room and board. It depends on exactly what your definition of going for free is, but didn’t want others to be confused.
Good luck to everyone! Assuming decisions are released today as anticipated, any sense as to what time this has typically occurred in the past…
Good luck and best wishes to everyone!
Correct, that’s why we didn’t use Common and applied directly with the schools. The highest enrollment deposit we paid in 2021 was $200 to access Scholarships. We did have 3 schools in 2021 that required the enrollment deposit to access scholarships.
For my S26 we had both FL Pre-Paid College Fund and he was a FL Bright Futures Scholar. He gets a check now every semester between $1400-1600. That’s why he ended up staying in the state for Nursing. My younger S28 going Mech Engineering has fewer “quality” opportunities in Florida for this major and will be going out of state. He had in excess of 300+ hours volunteer and paid employment
This seems ludicrous to me. Many many families choose to commit to a school only once they know how much money they will receive because they may not be able to afford it otherwise. They should be able to compare financials before committing.
Your D238 will be fine. With FL Bright Futures she will get one of the AU Merit Scholarships based strictly on her SAT/ACT Scores and GPA. I can’t speak for Ole Miss and remember FL Pre-Paid has a “Release Amount” to use out of state. You log in to FL Pre-Paid and add the 2 or 3 Columns on the right for whatever you pre-paid with some little interest. Our release amount is about $32K which is 4 years of Tuition/Fees and 2 Years of Room/Board. You just complete a form and that money is sent to the Out of State School. In our case, our FL Pre-Paid combined with the AU OOS Presidential Scholarship at 17K gets us “close” to the first 2 years at AU Free. Any other departmental scholarships, of course, are awarded later. Which STACK on top of Merit scholarships.
For the out-of-staters today, here you go
Academic Presidential Scholarship GPA 3.5 ACT 33-36 SAT 1450-1600 $17,000
Academic Heritage Scholarship GPA 3.5 ACT 31-32 SAT 1390-1420 $15,000
Academic Charter Scholarship GPA 3.5 ACT 29-30 SAT 1330-1360 $11,000
I hope we are all correct about tomorrow being the day for decisions!