@mango6986 Are you out of state?
@kayleighbrown Yes, sorry for not mentioning.
My daughter was accepted Into Farmer. 3.75 weighted GPA and 1980 SAT. Many ECs and a varsity athlete. OOS. Her scholarship is 5K a year. It’s near the bottom of the bracket based on grades/scores, and her scores are near the top. Do you think this amount is low?
@jmd5505 It’s really hard to say. Their merit grid lists requirements as UW GPA & SAT stats are based off CR+M, not total SAT score. So without knowing what that breakdown is, it’s difficult to guess which range your daughter falls in & where in that range she should fall. Regardless, congrats on getting some scholarship award!
@jumbletumbles Her CR+ M score was a 1310. I did not see where it said it used UW GPA. It does say it uses a 4.0 scale. I would think it would use weighted GPA as an incentive to take AP and honors classes that have a weighted average.
@jmd5505 My understanding is that anywhere it’s stated that GPA is on a 4.0 scale, they are referring to UW. This is second hand info from my son who told me that’s what his GC said.
From everyone reporting, it looks like those who received the top awards of each range had a combo of both the top range Score and top range of UW GPA together.
Your daughter’s award does seem on the low side to me for her score, but no idea with WGPA in combination. Maybe a call or email to FA wouldn’t be a bad idea to be sure?
@jmd5505 The website does state that the GPA is based on a 4.0 scale (it’s a double asterisk and is found in the notes at the bottom). For a different point of view, my daughter’s school does not weight grades - she has taken all honors and/or AP classes and has an unweighted GPA of 3.6. Even for those schools that weight grades, there is no consistent method of weighting grades - I have seen kids who have received an A get a 5.0 (or higher) GPA, a 4.5 GPA, etc., where the unweighted A is a 4.0. They review the coursework as well as the grade and it actually is very fair.
This is why I intend to call FA and discuss my son’s award with them. He has a 35 ACT and a 4.0 UW GPA (and a most rigorous course designation from our school) and received an award of $24,000. This seems out of sync with what others have been reporting. I know it can depend on other factors, but I can’t understand how a child at the very top of every category that is supposedly considered would not get at least close to full tuition. It’s frustrating, because Miami is his first choice, but he has a full tuition + $2500 offer at one school and a full ride offer at another school, so it might be hard to pass those up. We really expected Miami to be pretty close to par with the other schools and were disappointed that it was not.
@mom1girl I don’t want to hijack this thread, but I will make 1 more comment. I believe you are confusing scale and weighting. The scale could be 4, 5, 100, etc. My daughter’s is based on 100. If you take an honors or AP class that grade is inflated or weighted by a particular percentage. The final average is converted by colleges to whatever scale they use, typically 4.0. This is a weighted GPA. The unweighted GPA would not include the inflation for the honors and AP classes. After searching on “does miami of ohio use weighted gpa” it would appear that they do, but there was not a super definitive answer.
@lisa6191 $24,000 seems pretty good if the out-of-state tuition & fees is about $31,000; it is well over half-tuition. I understand you would want full-tuition for your son because of his good GPA and ACT score, but it may be that what they offer is based on more than just simply GPA and test scores.
@kayleighbrown That’s what I want to find out. Based on what people are reporting here (which is admittedly a very small sample size), kids with his stats received significantly more than he did. I guess I just want to know the reasoning, although they probably won’t tell me much. It’s not so much what we “wanted” as what we expected based on the grid they publish, but we obviously made an incorrect assumption that the highest stat kids would receive the highest rewards. I certainly know that he is not “entitled” to anything and that $24,000 is a generous offer, but the fact remains that it is significantly lower than his other offers so we will have to decide what to do. It adds up to an additional $32,000+ over four years which is not nothing.
By the way, the released out of state tuition and fees for next year is $32,555. It’s interesting because several people whose kids are in the “half to full” tuition bracket have reported awards of $15,000, which is actually less than half tuition.
This definitely makes me appreciate the straightforwardness of the awards at University of Alabama, where my other son goes!
I still haven’t heard back from Miami and I applied early action. This is taking too long >:P
Accepted; thankfully! Received $15,000 general scholarship, and got into the Humanities Scholars program and got $2,000. Congrats to everyone else who got in! And to those deferred/rejected, good luck, you’ll do great at Miami if accepted or elsewhere 
Rejected :-<
Accepted at Miami for Fall 2016 with $18,000 scholarship!
Any international students who’ve heard from them yet?
@itsmebhavi My D is considered an international applicant & she received her acceptance to Miami at the start of Feb
@Melbkangaroo Wow, that’s great! Congratulations! If I may ask, where are you (and your daughter) from?
Hi @itsmebhavi, Australia