Even though i got Boulder’s Presidential scholarship, it is still extremely expensive. I submitted the merit scholarship through my CU boulder, and now all it tells me is “next step: start applying” as though I didn’t just apply for any scholarships.
Is the general application alone going to be considered for any scholarships, or is it just a baseline for more specific additional applications?
Trying to get this figured out before the Feb. 15th deadline.
Thank you
The Presidential scholarship is a merit scholarship. I’m not sure you can get more than one. You’ll need to call on Monday.
I have no clue, I just did everything I was eligible for. I also just found out for this year that its going to be 58K (I was going off of the 2016-2017 year which was something like 52K). I am in the same boat… I would have to get a substantial amount of money to go there.
@sophie5413 mind me asking your stats? I got Chancellor’s not Presidential with a 1520 SAT and 4.0 gpa. kinda surprised me to be honest, I was hoping for presidential.
Won the Chancellor’s…still stupid expensive
@shamwow101 I was under the impression that the chancellor’s and presidential were given on the basis of GPA and SAT/ACT alone (I assumed the arts and humanities scholarships existed to balanc the distribution of awards because engineering/business majors are so competitive and bring in high stats), but it does seem to have to do with your major as well.
My GPA isn’t nearly as high as yours, uw 3.5, with the same SAT. I didn’t get any scholarship money, but I wasn’t expecting to.
I’ve seen kids accepted to teaching/English/science majors with the chancellor’s who had like 3.4-3.6 GPAs, and 1290SAT /28ACT.
I’m guessing presidential Scholarships are also distributed with respect to major. If you’re in engineering or business or something, that would probably explain it.
(Disclaimer!!! I’m not bashing people with lower stats who got scholarships, it makes sense that they would want to give money to the top applicants by major. I don’t want to come off as begrudging. I’m not approaching with an ‘I deserved a scholarship angle’)
@TreeLights Thanks for that; I actually hadn’t considered that they would be awarded with respect to one’s major, but that makes perfect sense. I applied for the business school. Didn’t know it was that competitive of a school to enter, or at least not nearly as competitive as engineering.
Surprised you didn’t get Chancellor’s with that SAT though.
College of Arts and Sciences is the lowest bar for admissions of all of CU’s programs. LEEDS school of business has a higher bar. Engineering higher still. School of Music requires a live audition for admission.