<p>Are there any Carolina Scholar recepients who are declining to go elsewhere?</p>
<p>Can any Carolina Scholar recepients post your decision --- going to UNC or declining to go elsewhere?</p>
<p>D declined, Accepted to Princeton. If she was not accepted to Pton, NC CH was her first choice.</p>
<p>so if people turn down the scholarships are they offered to other people? or are they just obliterated?</p>
<p>also has anyone been notified or anything like that as an alternate or something? I havent.....of course I've already enrolled too</p>
<p>The money goes back into the pot for next year. The schools offer scholarships to attract certain candidates, and they know it is not going to work for everyone.</p>
<p>I'm not so sure, choco. My son, JUST yesterday received an offer from UNC-CH of over $5K/yr--lots of cash given that we're in-state, and he received an offer of a laptop grant last week. All this comes well AFTER the stated finaid offer date and at least two weeks after he sent them a turn-down notice. They should have made their offer before he sent in his Tulane deposits!</p>
<p>Anyway, I wonder whether this offer came BECAUSE of his rejection notice or perhaps because money became available after someone else declined?? As I noted on the Parents forum, he himself declined a near-full-ride offer from another UNC very early just so they could give it to someone else, and I'm sure they did so, as that one was a named scholarship and the largest they give at that institution.</p>
<p>I would take the offer from UNC and get back to them. Its MUCH better than Tulane. I am at a top grad school and run into UNC people all the time, but rarely do I hear Tulane.</p>
<p>yeah ctymom, is the $5000 going to change your son's mind? Or is it just too close to home?</p>
<p>Nothing's going to change his mind at this point, as Tulane has a major in Cognitive Studies , and Chapel Hill doesn't. That was the main point all along. And as for hearing about Tulane at top grad schools, he's already investigated where people go from Tulane, and a hefty percentage end up at places like MIT, Chicago, CMU, etc--the kinds of places he intends to move on to for further studies. He's not concerned about that. It's likely that you hear more about UNC partly because it's a much larger school. </p>
<p>I'm sure both would have been excellent choices, but the major in the area he wants tipped the scales for him even though Tuane will end up just a little more expensive now (it would have been even money before this late offer came in). Of course, I would love to have had him closer to home, but it isn't what I want that matters, is it? And web cams work everywhere.</p>
<p>Cognitive Sciences rock!!! Congratulations on the decision :)</p>
<p>Thanks, Choco. We're really happy for him, even though Chapel Hill would have been great for lots of reasons. I'm especially tickled about CogSci because he's brining home books about linguistics, and that was my field in grad school. Of course, I'm hopelessly out of date now, but he's going to pull it all together! </p>
<p>I'll get out of the Chapel Hill students' way now!</p>