<p>A few days ago my son received a letter from the Dean of Enrollment Management (snail mail) at BC, informing him that he did not receive a FACHEX award, which is a special competitive scholarship available to children of employees at fellow Jesuit universities. (They only award a few each year and this year they awarded 4 to the 75 that qualified for it.) What it did say, however, was, “Although we cannot offer you FACHEX, I sincerely hope you will continue to consider Boston College among your college choices. You are welcome to contact our Office of Student Services, who will make every effort to help your family finance an education at Boston College…” Does this look like a “likely” letter or are we just projecting desire onto a piece of paper with a fancy embossed gold seal?</p>
<p>I was a FACHEX applicant last year (and didn’t get it). It’s not a likely letter… it just means you didn’t get the scholarship. Every applicant in the FACHEX program gets this same letter if they don’t recieve the scholarship. Your acceptance or rejection is still up in the air. I got accepted, but no someone who got this letter and was waitlisted.</p>
<p>Whether or not the FACHEX letter was a “sort of likely letter”, The Big Envelope arrived on Saturday from BC for my son. He is thrilled (and blown away). I hope they will make every effort to help him finance his education at BC, just as they wrote!</p>
<p>Congratulations. BC wasn’t very generous to me financially, but hopefully they are to you!</p>
<p>Thanks, Lily. With the size endowment they have, I certainly hope they make it possible. Not sure what their record is of “wooing” the students it accepts.</p>