<p>Lilly1, did you get merit aid? 1340 SAT and 710 on SATII writing are high, and it sounds like your HS classes were the toughest your school offered.</p>
<p>I have not been notified of any merit aid at all. I was at least hoping for a Founders's grant or Dean's Scholarship- Has anyone received notice of these yet?</p>
<p>My son got a letter the following week with notice of a University Scholarship.</p>
<p>I knew my stats would not be enough for a university scholarship, but I have not heard of anyone getting the Dean's or Founders--Do they award these later?</p>
<p>Oh, and yeah, my financial aid decision said " Boston University will be unable to offer you any grant or scholarship aid because the calculated contribution expected from you family is nearly equal to or exceeds the cost of attendance at Boston University for the 2005/2006 academic year." Come On!</p>
<p>Why not call financial aid and ask them if they have sent notification of all merit aid scholarships to ED students yet.</p>
<p>I emailed them yesterday--they're closed until the 1/3. Do you think I have a chance or is it hopeless--and what about withdrawing my other applications?</p>
<p>Yeah, how do we withdraw from other colleges? I have five colleges I already applied to that I have to notify. Do I just send a letter saying "I got into a different college. Bye now."? How pointless... heh.</p>
<p>I'll send letters next week, after I talk to financial aid. Probably just some form letter type thing. Right now I'm having a little buyers remorse because I did not receive any aid/scholarships from BU, and I know I would have elsewhere--Oh Well! BU was and still is my first choice. I spent a weekend there in the fall, my cousin is a freshman(presidential scholar) at BC, and my aunt lives in Boston, which are all pluses-- the money is scary though!</p>
<p>NO! Do not call the financial aid office about merit based scholarships. At Boston University's Office of Financial Assistance, we are only required to deal with NEED-BASED AID and other misceallaneous things regarding study abroad, loans, etc. The people eligible for MERIT-BASED AID are determined by the Admissions Office. Then, the funds are distributed by the Financial Aid Office. So, to contact the Financial Aid Office about MERIT-BASED AID will only get you transferred to the Admissions Office.</p>
<p>To TheIntellectual,</p>
<p>If you have received a packet from other schools, then they usually include a way to tell them that you won't be attending. If you haven't recieved a packet yet, then you might want to wait until you've received them. If you never receive something that asks you if you want to cancel you admission to their school, then I would advise you to then send a letter. A lot of places hate extra paperwork.</p>
<p>Brandon,</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. S's envelope with his merit award had a return address of "Office of Financial Assistance. That's why I told Lilly1 to call them. The actual letter, though, has an inside return address of "Vice President for Enrollment."</p>
<p>Does anyone know when we get our email addresses and housing 411?</p>
<p>Did they have you all do the housing survey and the e-mail setup through the studentlink yet? Or, did they have like an Early Bird Account for you all?</p>
<p>We have something called "ApplicantLink". It grants us access to our admissions and fincancial aid status and used to lead to the external online application host (which we lost read access to after submission).</p>
<p>I don't think they'll start flyering us until they get our deposits on January 15th.</p>
<p>I actually received information from financial aid regarding merit scholarship, and Admissions has not yet responded to an e-mail from my Dad. It turns out that the expected contribution from my family exceeds the cost of a Boston University education by $2,000. Using the FASFA it meets the cost, thereby ruling out any Dean's or Founder's grant because the minimum criteria is $200 less than the cost of a Boston U education. If you read the information published by BU, you will find this very misleading. I think my parents are going to file an appeal, however not very hopeful. We have decided that I will enroll regardless. I feel kinda bad because the reason for the high EFC is that my grandfather died in 2002, his estate was settled in 2004, and I will be using up all of that and more--reason for high EFC.</p>