<p>Only a copy of the admit letter, the enrollment acceptance form, and a page detailing the winter preview date (Sun. Feb. 16), for accepted students.</p>
<p>Just received snailmail today, and I live in MA. Only things I got were a calendar and my merit letter.</p>
<p>So you didn’t receive the items I listed above yet? Seems like multiple letters going out…hopefully merit to follow here.</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that merit will come out 2-3 weeks after the decisions.</p>
<p>My son received a merit scholarship letter today. It was for a pre-med scholarship. Its strange, though, since he didn’t apply for pre-med. He applied for undeclared engineering.</p>
<p>got in with a $14500 scholarship!</p>
<p>In NY, Accepted with University Award merit $38K, $9500 per year. Stats 2070 SAT, GPA 3.6 UW 3.8 W, CS major.</p>
<p>the merit letter would be in a seperate envelope.</p>
<p>Presidential Scholarship totalling $50,000! :)</p>
<p>I got my snail mail yesterday (monday) on the west coast.I got my acceptance letter with the enrollment form & winter preview info, a WPl calendar, & my merit aid.</p>
<p>East Coast. I got an envelope with me acceptance letter, enrollment form, and preview info, and then a separate packet with a calendar and a bumper sticker. No merit letter yet :(</p>
<p>Our kid received several items by snail mail: first acceptance letter, then later a merit letter dated Dec 20 offering $80K presidential scholarship over 4 years. Calendar came separately.</p>
<p>I applied RD, Does wpi wait for first semester grades before releasing decision?</p>
<p>S was accepted with a little merit, not nearly enough. Has anyone heard if Financial Aid office is open to discussing/increasing merit? Just curious because some schools do that, others don’t.</p>
<p>wondrousworld; talk to them, it can’t hurt. </p>
<p>I talked with the WPI FA office before they made their merit offer (we did not get any need based aid). Don’t know if it helped, but their offer was OK.</p>
<p>WPI does have a merit aid “appeal” form that your S could fill out. However, they do <em>not</em> (according to the person I spoke to, at least) take into account what other schools have given. They are looking for new information that might make the student more merit-worthy than they appeared on their original application. My impression was also that they might bump up the merit a bit, but not a lot. If the merit offered was “not nearly enough” you’re probably out of luck. </p>
<p>(We are eliminating WPI on the basis of money, even though my DS will likely become a NMF next month and qualify for a guaranteed $20K. Unfortunately even that is not quite enough, and given that they awarded him only $6K initially, we don’t think there’s anything he could say on an appeal for that would get them to go above the $20K. He has other affordable choices, and hasn’t fallen in love, so he is able to be pragmatic about dropping them.)</p>
<p>Thanks for input. Probably should have talked to Fin Aid Office prior, but too late now. Any suggestions as to what to say when calling them now? (No change in circumstances to speak of, other than better awards from other colleges, which as you say they won’t take into consideration.)</p>
<p>I believe the admissions office handles merit awards, not the financial aid office.</p>
<p>Will you qualify for any need-based aid on top of the merit?</p>
<p>When you talk to them, I believe they will just tell you to fill out the appeals form. If WPI would be his first choice (definitely would attend) if he could afford it, he should express that. I haven’t seen the form yet (I was told it was being revised and would be out next week) so I don’t know what they ask on the form, or where you could put that information. If there’s nowhere to put it, maybe say so in a “cover” letter/email you send with the completed form.</p>
<p>When my D was in this situation 2 years ago, she filled out the appeal form and wrote a letter thanking WPI for their generous merit offer and then explained that although the school was her 1st choice, she could not justify the extra expense when she had received other more generous offers from peer schools. She sent along a copy of her offer from RPI. WPI responded by increasing her merit enough so that the COA came to within $1,000 of RPI. They also added a one time study abroad scholarship. D’s stats were good - 33 ACT, rank 4 of 400, don’t really remember the rest. Although WPI’s official position may be that they don’t take into consideration other offers, I don’t think it can hurt to show them a better offer from a peer institution, especially if it is accompanied by a polite letter from the student. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>MathmomVT, any guesses where your S will end up? My S is also a NMSF and got accepted at WPI along with some other EA schools. They are probably traveling in the same circles!</p>
<p>Great advice, GraniteStateMom 
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<p>No guesses yet. EA acceptances from WPI, Northeastern, UVM (in-state for us), and Drexel so far. He also applied to RIT, RPI, Lehigh, Rochester, and Waterloo (Canada – he’s a dual citizen). </p>
<p>A lot will depend on the money from the RD schools. He has a favorite, but I don’t think they’ll give him enough merit money. Life is semi-complicated by the fact that a school may give him addition need-based aid for the first year (sibling in college) but we will need to know what the cost will be once the sibling (who will be a senior next year) is out of college. So another round of discussions with financial aid offices after we get decisions and finaid offers…</p>