<p>does cmu usually match merit awards from other private schools? or just financial aid awards?</p>
<p>yes.....check my post out for more information</p>
<p>Whether or not CMU will match merit awards depends on how much they want you and where the award is from. Smartbrotha was lucky that they adjusted his fin aid; I was able to get CMU to give me 1/2 of what another school offered as merit. There are plenty of people who don't get merit awards matched; naturally, CMU is more likely to match merit aids from stronger univiersities that they think they are likely to lose students to. Financial aid is all a game.</p>
<p>CMU was really good at matching my financial aid and scholarships from other private schools. It never hurts to try!</p>
<p>It would be nice to KNOW what the letter says before I send a "could you match this award request?". I really can't believe that it is April 24 and we STILL do not have the FA letter. It says it was mailed on April 7 but our mail is NOT that slow. And I emailed last week and they said it was mailed "a few days" ago. Again I say that mail just isn't THAT slow. We've waited now for almost a month to hear about the FA if any. </p>
<p>Syracuse offered me a four-year scholarship of significance, but I prefer CMU. But this is getting down to the wire. Every day I check the mailbox.......nothing. I think its very rude of them. We sent all of the stuff in on time. But somehow they "lost" the first CMU form that we sent them, so we called and resent it more than two weeks ago........and still. Nothing. In the meantime I could lose my housing chances elsewhere. CMU's timetable is just TOO late!</p>
<p>Call CMU instead of email- if it's been 2 1/2 weeks, it must have gotten lost in the mail somehow, and you need to know because you've got a week left to make your decision. If you wait any later, you might not get a resent version by the time you need in order to make a decision.</p>
<p>yea i had the same problem as you. i called up and they gave me my award on the phone. this is what im going to do again tomorrow, because they haven't told me the results of my appeal yet. good luck!</p>
<p>A couple of years ago, we found that CMU would not match Case, nor get even remotely close. </p>
<p>Also, as ksmb said, it is very difficult when you only have a few weeks or days to go through an appeal process and then decide. IMO, there is no excuse for giving students and their families such a short time to deal with the obvious financial considerations. I think we had like two weeks to appeal and less than one week to decide.</p>
<p>Good luck to those of you who are still waiting!</p>
<p>I don't think CMU uses the word "match"; that wouldn't make a lot of business sense. Case though a good school is less selective than CMU...why would CMU match (ie offer the same amount) the award from a less selective school? Case gives a lot of $$ because they are less selective and get kids to go there for the money. I believe CMU says they will "consider" (much different word than "match") other offers and act accordingly (whatever that is, good or bad depending on each individual case), which is more than a lot of schools will do.</p>
<p>I agree at this late date DON'T wait for the mail...CALL.</p>
<p>True 2331clk. But many students who apply to one are also attracted to the other, as there are similarities in the universities and surrounding cities.</p>
<p>But I know a large number of students offered full tuition or more merit aid at Case, but who chose to go to CMU without any merit aid, so it's obvious that students don't consider Case a peer institution, and thus CMU doesn't need to match (or even recognize, really) merit offers from Case. Many students who are accepted to CMU considered Case a safety.</p>
<p>Well, that certainly does pretty much sum up their attitude. Whether CMU/Pittsburgh is worth $200K :eek: more than Case/Cleveland for undergrad is a personal decision, I guess. To each his own!</p>
<p>I'd be curious to know which schools CMU did a really good job of matching.</p>
<p>I'm a music major. THey did an excellent job matching my Oberlin finaid/scholarship.</p>