accepted!
3.89 W GPA, 1400/1600 SAT, 5 previous APs + 4 this year.
@maroonsun7 Weird. As someone who is involved with admitted students (tour guide), I’ve been told that FAFSA and CSS are needed for FA and merit aid. Who knows? 
Accepted with a 3.85 UW GPA 0 APs and a 1470 SAT
How do I view if I received any merit aid?
According to their website:
Presidential Scholarship: Full-tuition and room award renewable for four years. Awarded to the top twenty admitted students each year. Presidential Scholars are generally ranked in the top 1-2% in their high school class and demonstrate excellent academic achievement in high school, test scores, and personal characteristics. April 1 notification.
Semifinalist Scholarship: Full-tuition award renewable for four years. Recipients are finalists or semifinalists in the National Merit or National Hispanic Recognition Scholarship Programs who possess an A or A- average and are in the top 2-3% of all admitted students. Notification at the time of admission.
Dean’s Scholarship: Awards begin at $15,000 and increase based on a student’s financial need as demonstrated by the FASFA and/or CSS profile. Recipients are typically among the top 10% of all admitted students, with a solid A or A- average, high academic performance in a competitive curriculum, and above 1450 (New SAT (1600 scale) or converted old SAT) or its equivalent on standardized testing.
Other Scholarships: We also offer a range of scholarships that are based on merit and/or need. Scholarship awards vary based on the individual requirements but can range from $1,000 to $20,000.
I haven’t filed the CSS yet so I feel that the financial aid in the letter, because it said “at least”, is just describing the award and then after filing the CSS I will find out the actual scholarship amount?
Accepted 3.5 UW 3.9 W
29 ACT
1260 SAT
640 World History
7 APs
over 15 honors classes
Accepted with a 3.6 UW good ECs and decent SAT. Not sure where to see if I have merit aid though.
Accepted Gabelli School of Business Rose Hill
31 ACT - 1360 SAT - 4.0 UW - 16 AP/IB/College Classes - DECA National competitor - Football Captain.
My scholarship link launches into an error - called and they said won’t get scholarship/financial aid award until Feb 1st.
Congrats to everyone …
ACCEPTED!!
SAT (breakdown): Didn’t Take
ACT (breakdown): 30
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: School doesn’t do weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Lang (4) – I made it clear my school only offered one AP, and I took 3 college classes, as well as attending a VoTech
IB (place score in parenthesis): School doesn’t offer
Senior Year Course Load: Band, Spanish 2, Comp 1&2, College algebra, World History, US Government, VoTech for 4/7 class periods
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Academic All State, NHS, NTHS
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): BPA state champion and national top 10 finalist for 2 video contests (State VP, national ambassador) , 4-H since I was 5, 8 year consecutive public speaking champion, state speech contest delegate and state champion speech for 8 years (Club president for 6 years, county officer for 8 years, county president, local and county ambassador), Stuco (Secretary), SkillsUSA state video contest champion, state Quiz Bowl champion, national 4th place quiz bowl, National Honor Society (VP), National Technical Honor Society, Catholic Church teen leader and diocese representative, Relay For Life (comittee chair and team captain for two years), 10 years of theater- (lead role for the past 4), band for 7 years- sweepstakes award for 3 years and state champion marching band for three years, Academic team for four years (captain for two years), various other clubs and volunteering
Job/Work Experience: Carnegie Library Page for 2 years, now assistant at a dog shelter
Volunteer/Community service: Vilunteering with tornado relief, LOTS of community service thru 4-H, raised $16,000 for special olympics with BPA
Summer Activities: The clubs above, mostly? Work, and run camps for those clubs, as well as leadership trips and state officer training camps
Essay (rating 1-10, details): it’s not the best, I kind of wrote in in a rush, but definitely shows how passionate I am about my major. 5-7 maybe?
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): Im a complete teachers pet, I love this teacher. Went to two national contests with her, I have no doubt a 10
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): I struggled in her class but I think she knew how much I cared, got a 4 on her AP test. A 6-9 I think
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): This one I don’t know about. She quit halfway through the year so I couldn’t tell, but she was very nice.
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, N/A
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Film
State (if domestic applicant): OK
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Incredibly tiny public school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Small town girl wants to make a big impact?
Reflections: DEFINITELY should have taken more time- I didn’t know this school was a big deal when I applied, I had just gotten a few waiver and thought why not. I’m SO GLAD I applied though, I’ve really come to love this school in researching it.
Strengths: ECs and Community service, I have done a lot of work with my intended major
Weaknesses: Scores, wish they were higher 
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/waitlisted/rejected: I think I had a strong courseload for my school, and I made sure to show I had really taken every opportunity I could with my education, I just didn’t have many of them in my area.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to OSU and TU, rejected from Columbia
General Comments (if any):
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!
do they accept to major or can you change after you get in?
Accepted !!
4.5 GPA W
34 ACT
Dean’s Scholarship
@nmocha567 I called the FA office today after my S was admitted & they said EA FA awards are not packaged until Feb. 1. Only FA packages for ED, plus scholarships for EA/ED are released now.
Deferred here!
4.2 GPA
Top 15% of my class
1310 new SAT.
AP scholar with honors
15th in the nation for oratorical declamation NCFL Forensics.
4 time NCFL national qualifier
NSDA national qualifier.
Vice President of student council
Speech team captain for 3 years
news editor of the schools newspaper.
Internships with Tammy Duckworth for US Senate and Concern Worldwide.
I’m actually very confused as to why I was Deffered.
does anyone know when we find out the amount of our scholarship? on the portal it says that I got Dean’s, which has a minimum value of $15,000 a year…but it doesn’t actually say how much I got!
can someone make an official facebook group
Got my acceptance to FCRH!!! But I don’t have any financial aid info yet???
@keanne20 I believe the Dean’s scholarship is a minimum of 15k, and getting more than that is based off of financial need. So, I think they’ll let us recipients know how much we get once we get our FA package (the need-based one).
Anyone know when need based aid comes out btw??
also:
Accepted!
33 ACT, 4.5 W
IL
Female, hispanic
Rose Hill
Dean’s Scholarship
D got accepted with 1340 SAT and 4.85 GPA. Didn’t see any merit aid though…
I received clarification from Fordham Admissions yesterday. You don’t need to complete the FAFSA to be considered for Merit scholarships. However, you will have to fill out the form in order to actually be given the scholarship. Merit scholarships are determined by Admissions.