<p>Broadway, just giving out a total $ amount of the scholarship offers students get is not helpful, IMO. I would guess that is giving out accolades, but it’s meaningless. But when a school lists the actual awards each student gets or even just lists the awards the students were offered without the students named, it is helpful to future students. It’s very useful to know that XYZ college gives out $20, $10K awards to students at your high school. Especially when you can see which kids got them. Collect a few years of those programs and you can come up with a nice list of schools that have good merit potential. </p>
<p>But if a school wants to list the total amounts ( and it could be it’s fin aid mixed in there and four years listed as one) as a shout out and plain ol’ braggin’, that fine with me too. I wouldn’t bother to send in the info in such a situation, but I would for schools where the info can be useful to others.</p>
<p>It makes sense to announce the scholarships of the students from committed schools and external sources. My D’s school would also give away some scholarship certificates at the graduation too. It makes no sense to include those scholarships from schools that have been declined by May 1 as they are no longer valid. It is more than false advertisement. I was kidding in another thread several weeks ago that my D’s total scholarships from all admitted schools are much more than my total assets including retirement fund and equity. I am not trying to boast (as you don’t know how much or how little I have) but just to show how ridiculous and meaningless it is. </p>
<p>But you know Billcsho, if you report that XYZ college offered your D a $20K a year in the ABC Award, and that RST College offered your D $10K a year, it really helps someone like me who is putting together a college and has to come up with some schools. It tells me that XYZ College has $20K merit awards, and that a student of your D’s calibre got it but got $10K at RST College. If more students from the class got those awards or like from those colleges as did prior students, that’s a good school to add to the list. Not financial aid but merit award. That kind of info is worth gold to a high school and to those looking for merit money. I wish more of the GC made use of the info. The awards are not valid to your DD, but they are wonderful info sources to future grads of the high school.</p>
<p>It’s also accolades to your DD to get all of those awards. You have to be proud of what she was able to get. It would be great to share some of that info here with us too. It’s difficult to discern, especially from schools not too well known what awards, sizeable one is particular are available.</p>
<p>@cptofthehouse As I mentioned much earlier, it is informative if they do list out the schools with scholarship awards individually. It does not make sense to report them as a total number without even saying from how many schools. That is totally useless information and do nothing more than bragging. For my D’s scholarship information, I have them listed in the appropriate threads already.</p>
<p>They did at my Ds’ HS but it was self reported and often confusing. Some totals included state lottery funded scholarship, some amount by year and some by total over four years - how ever the student reported it. It was interesting just FYI to see where people had applied and who got money.</p>
<p>Our high school does this also. It’s self reported and yes,somewhat misleading since financial need awards are “called” scholarships and tuition discount awards for merit are also called “scholarships”. The self reported total gets announced at the senior awards program as a lump sum and worth some applause, but it is meaningless because at the point of the senior awards all the seniors are already sorted out and made their college decisions.</p>
<p>My high school did (total, not per senior) and it was also misleading. I do not remember the total number, but I do remember that our principal also named the scholarship amount that the top 5 students in the class (the two valedictorians and salutatorians and me, the STAR student - student in the top 10% of the class that had the senior class’s highest SAT score) made and it was some absurdly large percentage of the senior class total (which, in my year, was just over 330 seniors). One of our valedictorians had gotten both Gates Millennium and the Coca-Cola Scholars scholarship, and all 5 of us had multiple full-merit offers, so I think that skewed the numbers higher. I do remember that the vast majority of scholarship money was concentrated in the top 10% of the class.</p>