<p>Hey there, for those of you who were wondering, after hours of not working ecampus is finally up and running and you're finally able to see your award (atleast for me). I was just hoping that someone understands the letter better than me and could please explain it! What are sub loans vs unsub loans and does anyone know if this award is strictly financial or if it includes merit based awards? For anyone who thinks they can help me understand, please do! Thank you so much and I hope everyone is pleased with what they're seeing! (:</p>
<p>It just included financial aid for me (need-based grants, sub loan, and unsub loan). I have no idea if they will send out additional merit aid or if they already have.</p>
<p>My daughter’s was a Dean’s scholarship for merit only.</p>
<p>Good for your daughter. When did she receive that?</p>
<p>She didn’t get an email but it was on her ecampus account. It’s under Finances, view/print letter. </p>
<p>Unsub loans are need-based and sub loans are not need-based (:</p>
<p>If it only says I got an unsub loan… is that all i’m getting? Woud any other merit scholarships be listed here?</p>
<p>@khauldi Not 100% if that’s all they’re giving, but both my merit scholarship and unsub loan were listed</p>
<p>I asked this in the other thread but it seems more relevant here: I got a letter telling me that I was a Johnson Scholars Semifinalist but then my online award letter just says that I got the Dean’s scholarship (merit). Does anyone know if this means that if I don’t get the Johnson scholarship, I get a couple thousand a year?</p>
<p>@awesomekid My s is also is a Johnson Scholar semifinalist and got a Dean’s scholarship. We also were wondering if there is potential for more money for being one of the 50 finalists.</p>
<p>@0827NJ The Dean’s scholarship isn’t a set amount, correct? How much did your son get, if you don’t mind me asking? I got around 6K per year I think… but then how come I’m being considered for the Johnson…</p>
<p>^It’s not a fixed amount. IMy Dean’s scholarship is 6k per quarter, so 18k per year. I was never being considered for the Johnson scholarship.</p>
<p>@awesomekid It sounds like Dean scholars all get a different amount. My S received $9,000/yr. It sounds like Dean’s scholarships might be based on grades/scores and Johnson is more on leadership (but still need minimum 3.8 GPA).</p>
<p>@dottie97 Hmm… that could be it. But I feel like I had pretty strong scores (3.87 UW gpa with 12 weighted classes, 2300+ SAT, etc.)</p>
<p>Is that an unweighted gpa of 3.8 as a minimum gpa for a Dean’s scholarship or weighted?</p>
<p>My daughter received the 1/2 tuition leadership scholarship when she applied to scu in 2011 but she chose not to attend. Her stats were 4.6 weighted, 3.96 unweigted with lots of sports, leadership AP’s and she was a very strong applicant. My son was admitted ED to SCU engineering just now with a 4.2 weighted GPA 3.6 unweighted - his B’s were in honors latin and religion here and there. He did not receive any type of merit award and we did not file any paperwork for financial aid. I was hoping he would get a small merit award of some sort, but I am wondering if he falls below the threshold or if he won’t get one because SCU doesn’t have to offer him one since he already committed to the school via ED. We were assured by his high school counselor that this would not prevent him from receiving a merit award. Does anyone know if he falls outside of the merit award criteria? I would hope that SCU would treat him the same as other students admitted with his stats. He has leadership and awards, varsity sports etc. as did is sister, just a lower gpa and lower test scores (in sat reading mainly - they both scored really high in math - he is truly an engineer!). Amazing how a few little gpa and test score points translate into $$$$ for merit aid :)</p>
<p>Having gone through this three times, what I have learned is that it is usually just one aspect - a gpa/test score/# of honors classes, etc - that makes the difference on award money or even getting in a school for one student versus another. SCU is not known for being generous in their merit money compared to comparable schools, and I would assume there are other students above that 3.6 or the test score you mentioned given other things are similar, and that was the Achilles heel. I don’t think applying ED had anything to do with it, imo. </p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. This doesn’t bother my son or husband at all but it has been on my mind a bit because he is getting in to a bunch of other schools to which he has applied early with a lot of merit money. He has withdrawn his applications from all those other schools per the ED agreement and he could not be happier to be attending SCU. The important thing is he will be getting a fine education at the school he really wants to attend.</p>
<p>It’s great he is happy and excited to go there, over 4 years that is worth the price difference! It is not uncommon to get 3 or 4 times more from other comparable schools, SCU can just get away with not giving the big bucks. Maybe cause in Silicon Valley there are plenty of people that will pay to go from around town. Good ol’ economics supply/demand. Or just marketing, trying to project an image of being “bigger/hotter/cooler” than they are by saying they don’t have to give it away to get people to go. Don’t know why exactly, just know they always give a lot less than other schools that one would consider comparable. Been that way for years. I think they need to keep money to pay for the landscaping. :)</p>