<p>After getting WL'ed at my #1 school I am going to be choosing a school that has an average GPA, SAT, and EC's well below my stats. Now that money is a cause for concern, I feel like I should be getting some sort of a scholarship or more financial aid or at least something considering I am at the top of my class statswise. </p>
<p>Is it too late to ask/get/receive scholarships from universities for this type of thing? I never really researched scholarships because I thought I would get into my #1 which I would be just an average stat, so I do not really know much about scholarships.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>it is kind of late in the game for that … maybe you should try again next year with a better list of schools.</p>
<p>Do you mean you only applied to one school? If not, what other schools were you accepted at and did they offer you merit money? If none, you need to quickly find rolling admission schools that are still accepting applications and automatically award merit! If you post more info on what you’re looking for, maybe someone can help you identify such a school.</p>
<p>Do you think you’ll get off the waitlist and can you afford your #1 school if you do?</p>
<p>@MikeWozowkski: I am not taking a year off.</p>
<p>@sk8rmom: I applied to 4. I got wait listed at two, and got into two. Of the two I got into, I chose the “lesser” school statwise. I feel like I am way above the stats though and should be getting some sort of money. I might just feel this way because people expected (and I expected) to get into a better school (like the ones I was wait listed at) yet I’m going to a school where the average gpa, SAT and EC’s are way lower than mine and I am not getting any money whatsoever. I can afford all the schools but I feel like because my stats are way higher than the average I should get some sort of money. Or maybe I don’t understand how scholarships are given out.</p>
<p>I don’t know how often this occurs. Thanks for any and all input.</p>
<p>Have they offered you any scholarships? If you completed the scholarship application forms for the school on time I would have expected to already have offered you scholarships if they are going to. If you did not complete them you may have already missed the scholarship deadlines which tend to be very early in the year.</p>
<p>@swimcatsmom: Yeah I never filled anything out, which is too bad. I’m not sure if I have the wrong attitude but every time I tell someone I’m going to this school and they ask me if I got a full ride and I say “no” I feel bad. That just might be my fault because I did not fill out the forms on time which is kind of disappointing.</p>
<p>“I can afford all the schools”</p>
<p>You are a very fortunate person. Stop worrying about what you “should” have done. Perhaps if you had applied for some scholarships, you would have received some. Perhaps you wouldn’t have received a penny. </p>
<p>Your answer to all the folks who ask about whether or not you received a merit scholarship could simply be “I didn’t bother to apply because I can afford to pay for this school.” Which seems to be pretty close to the truth.</p>
<p>Well with the economy the way it is right now it makes everything tighter. The whole point of this thread was to ask if there are any opportunities left that anyone knows of and how I can possibly go about applying for them.</p>
<p>Really, how you’re paying for school is no one else’s business! Some schools don’t even offer merit aid - including many of the most selective ones. If you don’t have financial need, there’s no scholarship. Take the offer that interests you the most and forget about the scholarship thing for now. If they were going to offer you, it would have happened by now or you likely missed the deadline.</p>
<p>Apply for local scholarships!</p>
<p>I hear ya, but you didn’t fill out the necessary paper work and so it’s no surprise you didn’t get any scholarships. And without naming the specific school (not advising you to do that) there’s no way anyone can give specific, meaningful input.</p>
<p>You could try calling the FA office and asking, but it’s unlikely at this late time it’ll cough something up.</p>
<p>I agree that it’s no one else’s business, but I can see why you might feel like a chump. But don’t kick yourself; what’s done is done. Outside scholarships are your best bet.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Unfortunately since you didn’t fill out the paperwork at application time, there probably isn’t any merit money left in the pot now. You might try calling up the admissions office, they can give you the information (without knowing the school, we can’t guess at their policy) As other posters have said, outside scholarships.</p>
<p>You should ask for Work Study program. It is not scholarship, nor is it any better, but at least you can still get paid for you work. And on your part, research for more scholarships and apply next year.</p>
<p>Usually schools automatically include you for consideration for merit money, unless it specifically says that you have to fill out other forms and apps for scholarships. If you have not heard anything at this time, you have not been awarded anything. Since you don’t need the money, it is not a financial aid issue.</p>
<p>You can always ask, and do so. But I would not be expecting that much.</p>