<p>Hi all, I have few questions.</p>
<p>My son is very much interested to study at U.Rochester:-)</p>
<p>1) Does all kids get merit scholarship?
2) If so How much approximately?
3) Is there a good chance of getting merit scholarship if my son apply apply ED
4) Is case western University better giving merit scholorship than U.Rochester?
5) My son is planningto apply ED to U.Rochester, but this all depends on your responses.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch!!</p>
<p>Not all students get merit aid from UR. Merit aid goes only to those top students that a college really wants to have attend.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no way of knowing your son’s scholarship chances at either UR or CWRU, since we don’t know anything at all about your son. In general though, your son’s stats would need to be in at least the top 25% of all applicants in order to get any merit aid – from any school.</p>
<p>Since you’ve only posted 2 times bostonmom you might want to research on CC the benefits (or not) of applying ED for merit money. worried_mom is correct about the college really wanting the student and the applicant being at the top of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Bostonmom-- The big merit scholarships (Renaissance and Genesee) aren’t tendered until March–after UR has had a chance to consider <em>all</em> the applicants including those who applied RD.</p>
<p>Unless your son is 100% certain he wants to UR <em>and</em> is a NMF (in which case there’s an automatic $22,000 merit award), there’s no down side to applying RD at Rochester.</p>
<p>Does anyone know whether Rochester sometimes awards merit scholarships in addition to the NMF award? My son is a NMSF and we are interested in UR.</p>
<p>Here’s general data about U Rochester:
[College</a> Search - University of Rochester - U of R - Cost & Financial Aid](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>My recollection ~ 33% of students got an average of $8k per person of non-need based aid.</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>Does anyone know what U of R’s reputation is for the renewal of merit scholarship in subsequent years? I know my DS’s scholarship is contingent upon his performance annually. So far, he is doing very well. I was wondering if there was any hope that it would ever be increased.</p>
<p>D is a junior. Her merit was renewed every year (she is an excellent student), but has not been increased (or decreased either).</p>
<p>Her sister started college this year, and her need-based aid was “increased” with more loans offered, unfortunately.</p>
<p>My son graduated a few years ago, but his merit aid situation was the same as previous poster - same every year. He was a good, but not great, student (3.4 GPA). I don’t remember there being any minimum grade requirement to keep the merit aid.</p>
<p>My D’s experience has been the same as the above 2 posters. </p>
<p>Her merit was guaranteed for all 4 years provided she maintained minimum standards–which were she take a full course load (16 credits) every semester and her GPA remain above a 2.5. </p>
<p>The minimum GPA at UR is quite generous, esp. considering that many schoosl require a 3.5 or so to keep merit.</p>
<p>(This is not implying D has a 2.5–her GPA is a 3.88 and she’s been taking 22-23 credits/semester…but she does know of other merit winners who faltered their freshman year and still kept their merit scholarships.)</p>
<p>The URoch web site strongly implies that you need to interview in order to get merit aid:</p>
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<p>[University</a> of Rochester : Money : Merit Awards](<a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/money/scholarships.shtm]University”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/admissions/money/scholarships.shtm)</p>
<p>FWIW - My S’s stats were well above the 75th percentile as listed on their web site, but he did not interview. He was not offered any merit aid.</p>
<p>So make sure you interview.</p>
<p>If your S needs merit aid (or any other financial aid) in order to attend URoch, applying ED may not be wise:</p>
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<p>Not good odds.</p>
<p>Yes, you should interview for merit aid, but the interview doesn’t need to be on campus. My d interviewed in a local hotel during one of their info sessions.</p>
<p>We were told that the only thing that a student needs to keep a merit award (including Renaissance) is “satisfactory progress” - a 2.0.</p>
<p>Interviews are indeed highly recommended, but they are not required. My son was offered a generous merit scholarship without interviewing. (Our family did not qualify for need-based financial aid.) Perhaps the interview was waived because we are 2500 miles away from Rochester and there were no local info sessions here in AZ?</p>
<p>Merit aid does not get increased, it is maintained at the same level as long as the students maintains the grade point average. There are some departmental monetary awards awarded annually but not likely to be more than $500. My d did not interview and received merit aid. The interview slots in our area filled up quickly and we did not visit campus until accepted students day in the spring. Admissions did however bump up her merit award after we faxed an award letter w/higher amount from a competing school after visiting on accepted students day.</p>
<p>If your child is receiving merit aid, would you mind posting your child’s stats (gpa, sat/act scores, ec’s, etc.).
Thanks.</p>
<p>GPA: (weighted) 4.34/4.5; (unweighted) 92.4%/100; 5 APs plus 2 post-Calc BC semesters of math
Class rank–school doesn’t rank (but probably top 20%–know she wasn’t in the top 10%; 1/3 of graduating class was NM letter of commendation or higher. D didn’t received any NM recognition.)
ACT: math 35; English 33; composite 30
Activities: volleyball (2 yrs); softball (3 yrs), community service board of directors (4 yrs); jazz band (4 yrs); speech (2 yrs); Big Brothers/Big Sisters mentoring (2 yrs); Special Olympics (coach-2 yrs); Children’s science museum docent (2 yrs volunteer, 1 yr paid); Bosque Project (chairperson for 2 yrs); Elena Gallegos Project (chairperson for 3 yrs); founded and ran a support group for students who had lost family members (3 yrs)
Awards & Recognitions: Principal’s Leadership award; Student Senate Leadership award; regional Soroptimist volunteer service award; commended by state legislature for volunteer leadership; published 2 pieces in local youth literary magazine</p>
<p>Plus she held a full time job each summer starting at age 16 and 2 part-time jobs year round her senior year in high school.</p>
<p>D is a freshman and has a $10,000 per year dean’s scholarship.
ACT 32
SAT 740 math, 640 writing, 620 CR
SATII 690 Chem and French, 740 Math 2
She attended Summer School at another college after Junior year received A’s in both courses, we sent that transcript in addition to SATII scores
EC: band, theater, speech, admissions rep
Her hook was she went to high school at a residential magnet math/science “public elite”
She interviewed</p>
<p>there is also a ‘continuing student scholarship’ that the office of admissions offers for students seeking an increase in merit aid, particularly those who have a strong academic record… it is the only way to increase merit based aid as a current student</p>
<p>interviews are certainly a large piece of the application process and help to determine merit aid, though it is not as if a student who does not interview is removed from consideration</p>
<p>worried-mom:
“My son was offered a generous merit scholarship without interviewing. (Our family did not qualify for need-based financial aid.)”</p>
<p>what were your son’s stats?</p>
<p>Hi M Conklin. Does a student have to apply for this continuing scholarship? My D is a freshman, and we got no financial aid last year and won’t again this year. She was awarded the Dean’s Scholarship. She made the Dean’s List first semester this year. Thanks in advance for your reply.</p>