<p>My daughter received a Dean's scholarship but we haven't seen anything about her being invited into an honors program. She also received an invite into an accelerated Masters Program, once she enters her junior year. Both letters mention that she is a high achieving student. </p>
<p>Should we look into it further or are not all merit recipients awarded honors? </p>
<p>If you look on the Northeastern threads, you will see that some kids get Dean’s scholarships but no honors program invitations, some get into the honors program but get no scholarship at all, and some get both. It seems to depend on your stats and the stats of the other applicants in your program of study. </p>
<p>I think the published stats are that merit money goes to top 25% of applicants, and honors invite to top 10%. However, I have seen kids get honors and no merit money.</p>
<p>To be honest, and there is likely no truth to this, I think they decide merit money somewhat based on financial need. A bunch of top kids at my school applied EA, and all of us had stats, EC’s, etc. that were well above average. Only some submitted their CSS profiles in time for a financial aid estimate with their decision. Those of us who didn’t send in financial info were given large merit scholarships. Those who did (all in relatively high income brackets) received small merit awards or none at all. While I don’t think financial info is used to render a decision, I think it might affect merit. Again, just a conspiracy theory, so don’t listen to me.</p>
<p>@nywhiz and @novafan1225, thanks for the information. I didn’t do much research, just a quick look through the recent posts. Interesting theory about the merit money; whatever the reason, I’m glad she got it. </p>
<p>I got into engineering with 18k deans scholarship but no Honors college. I also had no demonstrated financial need, as I received no aid.</p>