My D was recently accepted in to Honors College at College of Charleston but was not invited to interview for an Aikens award. How likely is it that she may receive a merit scholarship. She is an OOS with a 4.66 GPA in the IB program at rigorous public school. Her ACT Composite is a 30. She has been dedicated to crew yet involved in a range of extra-curriculars including performing arts, school government, foreign affairs club, Girls Leadership Council, etc. She will need either merit aid and/ or financial aid to attend. She has received Merit Aid from Tulane and UVM.
Anyone out there with any experience with CoC Honors college and merit award for non Aikens fellows?
Not sure who they will choose but students will be notified by March 15th per their website. http://finaid.cofc.edu/types-of-financial-aid/scholarships/institutional/college-of-charleston-merit-scholarship/index.php
Thank you! Hopefully, award announcements may be made sooner. I called CoC and was told that they hope to let students know sometime during this first week of March. Some schools seem to be communicating decisions sooner than the deadlines on their website now that parents have been able to submit FAFSA earlier than in the past.
Got an email yesterday with merit scholarship.
Wow!!! Thatâs great news!!! I will ask my daughter to check her C o C portal later today! are you a parent or student?
Did you receive an email alert or did you find out by checking college portal?
We got an email notifying us of our merit scholarship.
Are they sending scholarship notification emails to the email address on file for the student or to the CofC student email address?
Hi Rio123,
When you say âweâ got an email notifying us of merit scholarship, does that mean both parents and students received an email or just the student.
And like the TCPerc68 asked, was the scholarship notification sent to the email address on file for the student or the CofC student portal email.
I am also curious, are you an in state or out of state applicant?
My D also received an email regarding a scholarship (actually, it was a OOS tuition waiver + small merit scholarship). I, the parent, did not receive anything, and all the details were in the email. We have not accessed the portal, although that is where you are asked to âacceptâ the award.
Thank you Illnoyz for sharing this information. Its very helpful!!!
Illinoyz, could you tell me how your D was eligible for and OOS waiver and what this means in terms of OOS tuition reduction?
D17 never got any emails or anything on portal, so I assume that means no merit aide :(. We were really hoping for something.
Hi sdl0625 we are waiting as well. From others we know who have received emails, the emails were sent to their personal email address and not the CofC portal address. The website states they hope to have all notifications out by the 15th at the latest, so there is still hope. Fingers crossed for all of us who are waiting anxiously.
My D received an email Friday evening!!! Like Illinoyzâ D, my D also received an academic scholarship equivalent to the difference btw, OOS state tuition and instate tuition plus a small merit aid. FYI: on Thursday, I emailed the Honors College and after a few exchanges with a very nice gentlemen named, Chris Bailey, he suggested I call him. Apparently, he pulled up my Dâs transcript and in reviewing it had decided that she probably should be eligible for merit aid and perhaps she had been overlooked when her GPA had been recalculated from the 5.0 scale that her school district uses to the 4.0 scale due to âdeflationâ (didnât really understand). He encouraged me to contact the Financial Aid office and explain the situation and recommended that they could call him for clarification. As Chris Bailey explained it to me, admission into the Honors College is a qualitative decision (ie. a more âholisticâ evaluation), whereas merit/academic scholarship is purely quantitative based on the studentâs transcript: GPA and Test Scores. I hope this is helpful! You may want to email the honors College with your studentâs stats, and, hopefully, they will be willing to look again as they did in my Dâs case. Good Luck!!!
i highly doubt my daughter will get anything, but was hopeful. 29 ACT and 3.5 GPA. (UW slightly higher W)
I wish I knew more. My Dâs ACT:30 and have not idea what her 4.61 GPA was recalculated to on a 4.0 scale. She has taken a very rigorous course load through high school (except in Math) so I think that helped. Since you seem to have very clear data, I think it would be easy to call and ask what the eligibility cut-off is. Best Wishes!!!
I would think that if you were told the consideration for scholarship is done holistically, then an aggregate of items in your studentâs profile would be what the committee would use to determine who receives a scholarship. With that in mind, each college or university has their own limits of how many awards will be given out during any admissions cycle. One studentâs successful notice of being awarded a scholarship may not signal an expectation of the same even for a student with a similar, or identical, profile.
I was told the admissions decisions are done holistically / more qualitatively and that the scholarship decisions are done quantitatively not holistically.
Yes, I would assume that there are financial limits on how many awards can be given. It was only my intent to encourage anyone who felt that they may be eligible and might have been overlooked to contact the school. The sooner, the better. Thereâs no harm in trying!
Had I not contacted the school, and had the person I was in communication with not voluntarily pulled up my Dâs transcript ( I did not ask; he did it with out my knowledge then asked me to call him after we had a few email exchanges), my D would have been overlooked for scholarship money. I was told that originally her GPA had not been adequately recalculated from the 5.0 scale used by her school district to the 4.0 scale used by C of C.
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@LostatSea: I went back and reread your post #14, not having processed that youâd delineated the differences in how admissions decisions and scholarship designation were made at College of Charleston.
I cannot argue what Chris Bailey said to you as he is obviously in the best position to speak about the way the Honors College and the financial aid to Honors College admits tend to line up. It was fortunate, then, that you reached out and that Chris so closely watches the communications to the Honors College.
Hope it all works out for your daughter, and that she finds herself at home at College of Charleston should she attend.