<p>I got a letter from WashU today saying that I had recieved a dean's honorary scholarship from the school of engineering. I don't see this anywhere on the site-does anyone know how much it's usually worth, approximately?</p>
<p>confab</p>
<p>It is a new scholarship this year--new dean, new scholarship. I do not know how many they will give. I understand it is in the form of a stipend to be used toward education. I am not sure if the sum is fixed but I think it could be up to 10 K or so total lump sum. Some are being given add-ons to other scholarhsip offers, sort of the like Rice where they add Century scholarship on to Trustees and/or engineering. They did not tell you how much? Hmm that seems strange. Need to call on Monday or e-mail.</p>
<p>thanks olddad</p>
<p>they said they'd tell me the value on the financial aid letter</p>
<p>I wonder why as I thought it was a non-need based merit grant. S was told about his when he got his call from the department for the other enginering scholarship call. Of course we still have not seen the mail that would confirm everything he was told on the phone two weeks ago!!</p>
<p>Yea, I got that scholarship too. according to the following link (I'm not sure how valid its claims are), it says that the average amount is $6000 ? I'm confused too.
<a href="http://www.aie.org/Scholarships/detail.cfm?ID=16559%5B/url%5D">http://www.aie.org/Scholarships/detail.cfm?ID=16559</a></p>
<p>I have a couple of 'dumb' questions - I assume you all were admitted EA/ED?
Also, did you not apply for any scholarships and are just receiving letters that you are being awarded one? (Have a daughter who has applied RD who did not apply for any of the scholarships, but is a NMF).</p>
<p>not true. RDs were getting informed of the dean's scholarship too, although the applications for other scholarships might've helped that, because they discussed research interests and experiences that must've caught the engineering department's eye. the this scholarship seems to be meant for help with research stuff. not quite sure, considering how unclear all their letters are.</p>
<p>I was RD, and applied for the engineering fellowship. I still haven't found out anything about that, but the letter did say something about being an engineering fellow, so I'm just generally confused.</p>
<p>So you are getting letters about receiving scholarships or possibly receiving scholarships BEFORE getting a letter that says you were accepted to WashU?</p>
<p>Non-need merit scholarhips letters are received before formal acceptance letters are sent. Obviously getting one implies acceptance.</p>
<p>Based on what is being posted ,the admissions offices had poor quality control since several people received scholarship rejection letters and congratulations postcards. They may have cost them a bit of goodwill in the process.</p>
<p>The letters seems to be confusing regarding the Deans engineering scholarship. S's seems to conflict with the USP offer that came from the university admissions and seems to be offering similiar things in some respects as the Dean's scholarhsip but requires an interview like the Langsdorf. Also things told over the phone two weeks ago were not in the letter and even though two offices said interviews for Lansdorf and USP could be combined, the letters say different things. My guess is that they have been overwhelmed this year, are trying to offer a new Deans program, and wanted to get things sent out in a timely manner and kind of dropped the ball regarding clear communications. We will sort this out by tomorrow, I hope.</p>
<p>My son received a letter this week offering him a dean's engineering scholarship, but it's not the Langsdorf. His scholarship doesn't involve an interview weekend. He applied for the Langsdorf, but hasn't been notified about that one. Because others have posted here that they were contacted a couple of weeks ago about the Langsdorf, he assumes (and I'm sure he's right), that he isn't being offered that scholarship.</p>
<p>For those who are getting letters with Deans Scholarships: Are they just "Dean's Scholarship" or "Deans Research Scholar's"? There may be two different things.</p>
<p>SB: The only two Engineering Fellowships that were avialable to apply for were the Langsdorf and the Woodward. The second one is the half scholarship and seems to be given to those Langsdorf finalists who after the interviews do not get that one (so 8 of 12 or so I think) plus to others who are offered with a letter. The last group does not interview. The Dean's ones appear to be something new and there may be different ones.
Also, there is the USP program that is by interview and gives acceptance to the BS/MS, mentor etc. </p>
<p>And finally there are all the named, need-based, merit scholarship that come with or after acceptances.</p>
<p>The applied for merit scholarsips listed on the WashU site (Honorary Arts & Science - Ervin - Rodriguez - Langsdorf and some others, along with the Danforth) are awarded shortly after attendance at Scholars Interview weekends. They do not come with or after acceptance.</p>
<p>ST2: If the last line was for me I was talking about the need-based scholarships. They are named and come along wiht loans and work study. Often people interchange the merit ones that are on the site, Danforth etc, with the many big dollar ones that are merit based, but only as part of the financial aid package. I had a student who did not apply for any of the merit ones but got $32000 per year scholarhip plus loans. The scholarship had a nice name, the John Doe something or other memorial scholarship. He had been telling everybody about his merit scholarhsip that he did not apply for. Had to square him away on need-non -need scholarhips--but still wished my daughter had gotten the one he got.</p>
<p>I would think that we would at least get a rejection letter for the Langsdorf if we weren't being considered for it or the woodward scholarships, like everyone else.</p>
<p>oldolddad - Sorry I misunderstood your post. you are absolutely right about need based scholarships/grants/work study and loans coming with the acceptance package. Although WashU can be quite generous, the operative words are "need based".</p>
<p>The Dean's Scholarship is not new. My son got one last year. We found out the amount when he got his financial aid package. The scholarship is renewable provided you make "satisfactory progress towards your degree", whatever that means!</p>
<p>Yep, we were trying to distinguish between a finiacial aid scholarship-Dean's Scholarship versus a new Engineering merit award-Dean's Research Scholar that appears to be new. Looks like two different things but kind of sound close in name.</p>
<p>M'sMom: about how much did your son receive from that scholarship?
I wonder why they don't tell us the amount until we receive our financial aid package..</p>
<p>I don't know why they don't tell you the amount of the award until you get your financial aid package. As far as I can tell the Dean's scholarship isn't tied to need. Anyway, the information we got was that he didn't qualify for need except for the Stafford loan. I sent you a PM with some more information about the amount of his award.</p>