<p>This is just a follow up to my post from a couple of days ago. I called the Harrisburg Financial Aid office and questioned the letter I received since so many posted they got their scholarship notifications already. They did confirm Harrisburg students do receive a separate notification for scholarships on April 1st. They do their scholarship round AFTER the financial aid grants have been given. So there is still hope, for us anyway :)</p>
<p>@Dreadpirit What a self-important and presumptuous reply. </p>
<p>@YammyNug. You absolutely make sense. No need to justify your financial situation or clairvoyant competencies regarding Penn State FA/Merit. Sorry things didn’t work and do not feel alone. Every year, there are folks who find that things just aren’t going to work out financially with Penn State. Good luck with your other options!</p>
<p>@pilot2012 Thx for your understanding and good luck to you too! 
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<p>@foa006 my efc is 10 i got nothing ugghhhhh</p>
<p>@dreadpirit they can apply wherever they want ok. Perhaps he or she thought they would get a lot f scholarship money. Theirs no need for the rudeness or attitude. Are you just bitter because he got a scholarship and you didn’t thats how you sound.</p>
<p>when you say efc of 10 is that 10,000?</p>
<p>No $10.00</p>
<p>How is that possible?</p>
<p>Of course they can apply wherever they want, as I am free to express my displeasure about it. </p>
<p>You’ve got it wrong. I’m ecstatic over how much we got. We did our research and knew to expect nothing. We were presently surprised and got and much more than expected. </p>
<p>What irks me is when people end up not being able to attend the school of their choice because of other people who apply, without doing proper research and cause scholarship dollars to go to waste.</p>
<p>If someone say I applied and my situation changed - no problem - things happen.</p>
<p>But when someone applies and gets much more than anyone except millennium scholars and full ride athletes, yes it bothers me. I would estimate his 16K per year is in the top .1% of financial packages to PSU. It is an incredible offer. There are lots of people who could have used that money to attend - there was virtually no any chance of anyone getting more money that so it makes no sense to apply if that offer isn’t enough. </p>
<p>@Dreadpirit According to your theory, every school’s yield rate should be 99.9% because you apply to one school ONLY WHEN U’RE 120% SURE that it’s the only school u wanna go and you’re 150% sure that u MUST BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT, without doing any comparison with other offers?</p>
<p>Also, according to your theory, I should just go to PSU for the 16k it gives me, and give up the 58k, 40k, and 50k given by another schools, which are also considered “more than MOST PEOPLE GOT”? </p>
<p>Also, according to your theory, poor kids with 0 family income shall NEVER apply to any good school because he thinks the schools won’t give him a full ride?</p>
<p>I do the comparison of MY OWN Offers, please consider everyone INDIVIDUALLY :)</p>
<p>(no offense to PSU… I respect and appreciate their decision on my financial package & scholarship. A great school! )</p>
<p>Many good schools are know for good merit money. Many good schools are known for good need based money. I assume you applied to some of those and those offers were good. I have no problem with you turning down any of those offers.</p>
<p>To follow my reasoning ask yourself this.</p>
<p>If you knew before you applied that the most you were going to get from PSU is 16K would you have applied? Could you have forseen any reasonable situation where you could would have attended with that scholarship (excluding hitting the lottery).</p>
<p>If the answer is no then my point that you should have known that the most you could expect from PSU was about 10K. You should have run the net price calculator and seen that even with a $0 EFC, PSU only is likely to give about $5,700 in aid. You should have looked and seen the most that people get in merit money (outside of the race full rides) is $4,000.</p>
<p>To me you didn’t do your homework before hand and somehow it’s my fault for calling you out on it.</p>
<p>Whatever. What’s done is done, and I wish you the best of luck. Maybe you learn from this maybe you don’t Maybe someone else in the future learns from this. </p>
<p>@YammyNug, No need to justify. The reality is many pages were devoted to discussing the Provost’s Award last year. Its introduction/timing was unanticipated, and no one ever seem to quite figure out the award criteria, including @Dreadpirit. So the idea of infallible homework is somewhat, well, fallible.</p>
<p>In fact, the goal is to have a wide selection of schools to choose from when making your college decision. The reality is you never know. You’ve been prudent and have Plans B, C and D. That is what most parents would advise and that kind of planning bodes well for your future 
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<p>As an aside, there are some lucky students, albeit - very small percentage, whose first notification of a scholarship award is seeing it deducted on their bursar tuition bill. Surprise.</p>