<p>Our daughter was accepted at Rose-Hulman, but very regrettably she’ll be attending elsewhere. The merit based scholarship was only $7,500. Because she is classified as an International Student (she’s a long-term legal resident in the USA waiting for a green card), no other grant or loan is available. This leaves us with having to fund $45K+ for the first year of studies at RHIT, with no guarantee of relief in subsequent years ($180K total cost?!). She was offered ~1/2 scholarships at U of Rochester and Drexel. She’ll probably attend U of Rochester. Something should to be done at RHIT to accommodate this kind of anomalous situation for future applicants…</p>
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What can be done? Like most people, institutions have limited money to spend and they have to allocate it as best as they can. YOU have limited money and don’t have enough to choose RHIT, but do have enough to choose U of Rochester and Drexel. I’m glad your daughter had more feasible options. 
Good luck to her and all the other new freshmen!</p>
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<p>This is definitely true. RHIT does the best they can, and I can assure you they do the best they can. I was fortunate enough to receive $17,000 merit aid from them but my family still is in a crunch and another school was offering me a full tuition+housing scholarship. But, I asked RHIT if there was anything they could do to help me since it was my first choice. They gave me another $2,000. Ultimately, because of financial constraints I still am going to attend the school that gave me the full tuition, but moral of the story is is that RHIT TRIES to do whatever they can to help you attend. They are very responsive to a family’s need and will act accordingly. They can only do so much. I really do appreciate their efforts to allow me to attend.</p>