<p>or shortly thereafter?</p>
<p>Just based on my son's experience one year ago: rolling admission, the offers came with the acceptance, sometimes with an increase afterwards; private schools, where the awards are not formula-based, came either well after acceptance (for early action admit) or a few weeks before (for regular decision admit).</p>
<p>No universal approach. Call the schools and ask.</p>
<p>"No universal approach. Call the schools and ask."</p>
<p>That's on the mark. In my daughter's case she received her merit awards in the same envelopes that contained her acceptance (early action).</p>
<p>DS applied regular decision and has received merit offers immediately after acceptance and way before acceptance. I think it depends on the school and it depends on how much they want you - one school sent him an acceptance and merit offer six weeks before the date we were told to expect acceptance decisions, others said no news until April!</p>
<p>One school sent the merit with, one sent it one week after, and one did both - general merit with acceptance and kept upping it with named scholarships for the next several weeks.</p>
<p>There is no standard.</p>