<p>Honors notifications have already gone out IDMomma. It’s by program, that they make their decisions but the average ACT this year for honors designation was 32.7, so my daughter missed the cut, but she’ll just prove them wrong next year. I’m not sure whether you’re instate university offers an interior design program, but it’s hard to beat just paying for housing.</p>
<p>We haven’t heard back from Virginia Tech yet since we applied regular decision, but I have to say that I think they’re really behind the curve when it comes to timeliness of an offer. </p>
<p>As for Cincinnatus, remember that OOS students automatically get a $3,000 boost to the minimum so you and I both are looking at a minimum of $4,500 per year.</p>
<p>I’m sure your daughter will thrive no matter where she decides to go. </p>
<p>Thanks, Balthezar. I’m really not surprised that mine did not make the cut. She did get accepted to VT, and into the Interior Design program - just received the letter yesterday. It’s kind of crazy that they don’t send out offers until 4/15, though!</p>
<p>State U. has her major, and it’s looking better every day (to us, anyway)!</p>
<p>@Balthezar - is $1500 for University Cincinnatus, or what level, if you know. I see that the range is $1500-$6000, but can’t tell what amount is for Century vs. University. I’d love to put the deposit in, but without knowing Cincinnatus level, I don’t want to do that. </p>
<p>The letter is very vague, and I think it’s just trying to communicate that you’re going to get no less than $1,500 per year instate ($4,500 per year OOS). In other words, you’re getting an award, but we’ll let you know exactly how much later in March. I understand the uncertainty, but that’s part of the process. You just have to ask yourself if an the additional amount that you might get is going to make that big of a difference, and weigh that against any other options you have. It’s all about risk (of waiting until everything is known and only paying the fees then) vs reward (getting in your first-come-first-serve housing contract early or risking non-optimal housing). In the end, it’s not going to make that much of a difference with housing, because no student housing is luxurious, and conversely none is totally ramshackle and unlivable (although some comes kind of close, lol). If you choose not to attend UC and you’ve paid the fees, some portions are refundable, and some are not. It’s like an airline ticket, once you have it, you’re guaranteed a seat on the plane, but if you decide on another flight after you’ve purchased the ticket…the fees start to hit very quickly. Good luck finngal, I hope you get enough to help you be able to afford wherever you want to go. In the end, if you work hard, you’ll be successful regardless of the university you attend.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response @Balthezar. I didn’t think there were specific ranges for Century or University, but was trying to figure that out for my D. The waiting is getting old, but hopefully in a couple of weeks we’ll know more about the Cincinnatus. </p>
<p>Agreed finngal. This is my 3rd and last and they’ll all be in college come this fall. Pray for my checkbook. Oh, and good luck to you and your daughter too!</p>
<p>Well, Balthezar, our daughter is unlikely to go to UC now. Her offer was just $5K per year total, including OOS. She could go into major debt over a 5-year program like Interior Design, and she agrees that student loans are generally a bad idea. So - unless VA Tech waves a magic financial want at her, it looks like State U, here she comes! I’ve appreciated the help you’ve been over the past few months. All the best to your daughter!</p>
<p>IDMomma - we’re in the same position, although my D wasn’t looking at the ID program. She was accepted to the Honors program and it was high on our list, until financial aid awards came out. They offered us (mostly me) huge loan amounts, no thank you, but no financial aid and a relatively small merit award ($2500). So unless she miraculously gets another scholarship, UC is ruled out for us. </p>
<p>IDMomma, don’t forget that it’s not 5x39k, it’s 3.5 times that since there’s 1.5 years of Co-Op where the university charges a minimal fee plus she’ll earn money on the co-op. And still no word on Cincinnatus for us. </p>
<p>IDmomma we live in MD. not one school in MD offers industrial design. My daughter got accepted to applachan state but they are not accredited. she got accepted into drexel but they only offered her $15K and it is over $62K year, she got into VATech but they didn’t offer her any money and she got into UCinci. She decided to accept and commit to UCinci because it is the best program in the country for ID. We applied for a co-op scholarship program and have yet to hear if she got anything yet and since we have not heard yet about cincinnatus we are thinking she will not be offered anything. somehow we will make it work to pay for her schooling. good luck to you.</p>
<p>daapmom, the thing about Cincinnatus is that your program determines the cutoff point, and ID being #1 in the country, attracts a high number of top applicants. I’ve got three in college as I’ve previously posted, and fending for one, much less for three is still a daunting task. DAAP and UC, when compared to the absolutely ridiculous price tags of some of the other institutions is still a good deal relatively speaking and good for a variety of reasons. I hope that’s consolation of a sort. Everything I heard and seen about UC in general and DAAP in particular means your daughter will excel there given the opportunity. And giving them the opportunity is what we all, as parents, try to do. We do it out of love…plus when we’re 90, we hope they’ll let us stay in the coach house over the garage ;). </p>