<p>How does one know if one has been offered admission with a full ride. Is there an extra letter in the fat envelope? Do you get news of this when you recieve your fin-aid offer?</p>
<p>Just do the math. If your balance after scholarships says "$0" then you have a full ride. This is not rocket surgery.</p>
<p>I was offered a full tuition scholarship at a school with rolling admissions. They sent a letter about 2 months after my acceptance to tell me.</p>
<p>My D applied to about 12 schools a year ago. Rejected at two.
All the others sent the admissions letter first. Then, sometimes weeks later, she'd get a letter telling her they were awarding a scholarship.
Then an invitation to join the Honors programs. Sometimes after doing that, she'd get another letter saying Honors was giving her more money. </p>
<p>Quite honestly, while every school was a little different, one thing they all had in common was that this scholarhip/merit money information was doled out, a little at a time. Finally, when the financial aid letter came, it would summarize everything.</p>
<p>If an award was offered the amount was always noted. My son has been offered four scholarships but only one is a full academic scholarship.<br>
He accepted the full ride. </p>
<p>Inside the letter were two copies, one for him to sign and return and the other to keep for his records. He was also invited to join the Honors program. He did have a deadline to return the letter of acceptance.</p>
<p>"Just do the math. If your balance after scholarships says "$0" then you have a full ride. This is not rocket surgery."</p>
<p>exactly. Also, rocket surgery is my new favorite phrase!</p>
<p>that's a great phrase. I should use that one. I like that method the best anyways. Simple math.</p>
<p>If you wait until about March to make your college decision, you will receive financial award letters from the college(s) to which you were accepted. You just have to wait it out and see if the final tally is zero.</p>