@cascupcake2 you should give them a call tomorrow explaining the situation. My son called with the same reason, and the follwing day he received the notification.
Our worries now are that they only accepted 51 credits, this means sophomore standing when we were hopping for a junior one. They also say that they will evaluate the rest of his classes for his major, but all the classes he took were gen ed. He still have 16 credits this semester so I hope they will accept them. I’ll ask my son to give them a call on Thursday. Stressful indead ! The wait and all what needs to follow: FA package, Transfered credits…etc. Not easy at all a transfer !
Literally recorded a video of myself opening the email…it’s so funny
:)>- @cascupcake2 Time to celebrate !!! My S was accepted to BU yesterday. Still waiting for FA. Emerson strays his 1st choice, but we need to know about the FA. I am glad that you got in. You have been very patient ! You are closer to home now. Is Emerson your 1st choice ? Did you apply somewhere else ?
Emerson is definitely my #1 but it all depends on FA. My backup is Ithaca. What’s frustrating is that Ithaca’s enrollment deposit is due May 1st and Emerson’s FA office told me they can’t guarantee they’ll get back to me before then.
Ok, so we are in the same situation. Suffolk is the back up with a 1s May deposit. So if Friday we have no news, I’ll tell my son to call Suffolk and ask them for a delay. I am pretty sure they will accept because they accept new application until June.
That’s lucky, Ithaca told me there’s no flexibility with the May 1st deadline. So if I don’t hear back from Emerson by Sunday night, I have to commit to Ithaca.
@cascupcake2 2 years ago, my D was on the waitlist at Emerson. She commited to Concordia, in Montreal. She even had chosen her classes and, 2 or 3 weeks later, she was accepted to Emerson with a nice scholarship, a little more than half tuition, making it affordable. And even if it was more expansive than Concordia, we could discuss about it. We weighed the cons and pros. She finaly made her deposit to Emerson. So, at one point, it is not bad to commit to a university somewhere and go somewhere else after all. Even if you sacrifice a deposit. I hope you won’t have to do that. But it is manageable.
I got my financial aid package today… It’s not generous at all and I probably won’t be able to afford it. Not gonna lie, I’m absolutely devastated.
@manicpixie So sorry to hear that. We are totally scared to receive the same news. Can’t you appeal it ? Do you have alternatives ? It’s sad. I hope you’ll find a solution.
Still no news from FA admin. Getting impatient there. Suffolk accepted to extend the deadline for deposit to May 15th, but if we don’t hear back from Emerson soon, it will be difficult to not make that deposit to Suffolk. No news from BU either and their transfer acceptance day is Friday. So we are still making assumptions.
Got my financial aid- or should I say complete lack thereof. I was offered NOTHING. Looks like I’m going to Ithaca where I was offered $15,000. Best of luck to all of you, I hope it turns out better for you all.
@cascupcake2 Oh no ! Now I don’t know what to think. I was so hopeful, and you are the second in this thread to be disappointed by Emerson FA. Not a good sign. Ithaca is a good school and they want you on their campus. You’ll be ok.
My son called Emerson and they said that, because transfer students have a deadline of June 1st, he will have to wait two weeks. On the website, they say that all transfer students will be notify by May 15, so I think this is what we have to accept. May 13, if we have no news, my S will ask Suffolk to extend their deadline again.
@nlynskey @srg999 @milklore Are you still waiting for finaid info from Emerson like my son is ?
@catlalib No I received financial aid a couple weeks ago. I did not get anything aside from a merit scholarship.
@milklore So were you happy with it ? a merit scholarship can be a good one. Did you receive the getaway scholarship ? I don’t understand why it takes so long for my son. Same thing for BU.
@srg999 Thank you for your answer. Sorry to hear that. I hope you had a better offer somewhere else.
FA update. My son called the admissions today. They recognize that 3 weeks is not normal, usually, they send the FA notification 2 weeks after acceptance. Admissions person: very sweet. FA department, another story. They coldly answered that he will know next week. The person on the phone even interrupted my son. So he needs to ask Suffolk to extend the deadline again. They already did it from May 1st to May 15. And, they revised his FA package and gave him 2000 more dollars, he is at 29000 a year, with 7500 of loans for a 37500 tuition fees university. They are generous. But going there would be a different path. He would study psychology and sociology. He will have to wait for the master to study film / writing for film and TV. In the meantime, he will have his professional certificate in screenwriting from Emerson, since he his finishing this semester, and he will have the possibility to pursue with other professional classes there. Very hard decision. I’ll get back to this forum once we know what Emerson will give him. Very difficult decisions to make. But our philosophy is to have the less debts possible after graduation. Even if Emerson has been the dream school for 2 years !