I checked their website and the information regarding their automatic scholarships (presidential, etc) is gone and doesn’t show up on their merit calculator. Are these still automatically given?
For the incoming class of 2022, I did not see or hear of anyone getting a automatic full scholarship (presidential/founders) from years past but the Capstone scholarship is still alive and well. My daughter had a 3.95 UW GPA and 1470 SAT and applied early action and initially received 12.8K from the Capstone Merit Based and 14.5K Capstone Need Based and 18.7K in loans before she received a competitive full scholarship from Howard. I have talked to and seen that some students have basically gotten a full ride from the combo of the Capstone Merit and Capstone Need Based Scholarships combined along with Pell Grant money to basically cover the remainder (those seemed to go to high achieving lower income students). There was one student on College Confidential who had a high GPA and 34 ACT score that received about the same financial aid package as my daughter and she would have received a presidential scholarship the year before. Howard has changed the criteria a couple of times in the last few years so they have removed it from their websites (Prospective students and parents were pretty mad about them having outdated information so it has been removed)
Thank you!
Howard no longer offers automatic scholarships. All scholarships are competitive