<p>A popular thread last year was the Scholarship Awards thread, to track merit award offers. If you're willing to share, please list the following information for all merit award offers, not just the one your child ultimately accepts:</p>
<p>Name of school, amount of award, GPA/test scores, any special reason for the award (special talent, EC, etc.).</p>
<p>We hope this will help parents and applicants get a sense of what it takes to get merit money at various schools.</p>
<p>Our twins (S/D) received letters from Wofford admission office that they both haad been named Wofford Scholars. $ vary upon student's interview during Scholars Weekend, GPA, Test scores and remainder of application. Funds vary from 8K-over 120K. Kid are excited, college guidance counselor is thrilled. From what I can tell, Minimum SAT scores of 1220, GPA>3.8.excellent community service and recommendation of Guidance Counselor.</p>
<p>Southern Illinois University- Provosts award- $4,000 per year for the first 2 years. Minimum ACT 27, class rank in the 85th percentile.</p>
<p>North Central College- Deans Scholarship- $10,000 per year. Minimum criteria not listed - my daughter has a 29 ACT and class rank in the top 15 %.</p>
<p>RIT has a Computing Medal, which comes with a $3,000/year award should one decide to attend. Looking for excellence/awards in computer science, along with grades/leadership. The school nominates 1-2 students for the award <em>junior year.</em> There is minimal paperwork to complete. The award came by the end of that year. No minimum grades or SATs that I am aware of. </p>
<p>Not all schools participate in this -- might be worth it to check with one's GC or to contact RIT to see how to get the school involved in this program.</p>
<p>My S received $5,500 a year ($22,000 total) from University of Missouri-Columbia. It is the Mark Twain Nonresident Scholarship for out-of-state students, the highest OOS award offered. Must be top 25% of class, with a minimum 30 ACT or 1320 SAT.</p>
<p>D just received a Scholars' Award from DePaul - $9500 per year ($38,000 for all four years.) She must maintain a 2.7 for renewal and help with on-campus recruitment for the first two years.</p>
<p>We don't know the requirements for this particular scholarship, but in the letter they mentioned her community service (she's a Gold Award Girl Scout, among other things) as well as her academics (3.75 GPA, 29 ACT.)</p>
<p>That's a good award from A+M. She should be proud. UT and A+M are really chintzy with scholarship money. </p>
<p>OT: I do have to ask, and I mean no offense at all - if she won't be considering A+M even after the scholarship offer
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she is aiming a little higher, so she will not accept the offer
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why did she even apply to the school? or was she looking for a better scholarship? (I would certainly understand that. ;)) It seems " aim a little higher" meant "a better school, or higher ranked school" rather than a better deal. </p>
<p>There have been threads on this topic in the past and I have always aligned myself with the "reject scholarships just as soon as you KNOW that under no circumstances will you attend". Some folks believe it doesn't matter. I think it does when someone withdraws themselves from consideration for a non-formulaic (formulaic being all NMF's, all SAT 1400+'s), limited in number award. Certainly if it was a program specific scholarship, or department specific scholarship. Even if I'm right at only 10% of the schools, wouldn't it still be a good thing to do?</p>
<p>After seeing merit monies come in for my sons, and seeing these great awards here, does anyone else wonder if some of these awards might be more properly called "tuition discounting?" </p>
<p>We met a prof from Allegheny College who said EVERYONE there gets at least $15K off tuition and among the teachers, they do refer to it as the tuition discount.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am glad for it for my sons, but just doing a little musing. Casehopeful, my S got an offer to compete for more tuition money too but it made him mad. He felt they should either just offer it to him, or not.</p>
<p>fencer'smother, I did find a UHouston report that quoted a V.P. at Allegehny saying 75% . That is great news. But the article talks about lesser amounts than $15K. </p>
<p>Still FAR higher than I thought. I wonder why they don't release CDS material? Or at least I couldn't find it in papa chicken's list (or google, or the .edu site) . Then we'd know exactly. LOL.</p>
<p>I hadn't looked at that USNEWS list in a while and 5 of the LAC's D applied to were in the above 36% part of the list. Gee. Imagine that. ;)</p>