I haven’t heard anything about the James B Duke (I think that is the full tuition). You are correct that finalists should be notified soon but who knows how soon? 
Does anyone know if a student might be invited for Dukes scholarship interview after being awarded Townes? Thanks!
I don’t know, but I do wonder! The website mentions that the Duke will replace any previously awarded Bell Scholarships, but I don’t see any mention of Hollingsworth/Townes recipients. Since my D received the Townes it would be nice to think she was in consideration for the Duke, but I have no idea. It could be they award the Hollingsworth/Townes to those not in consideration for the Duke, but I honestly have no idea. How is that for a very long answer to say I do not know? Ha.
Congratulations on the PWO opportunity! Can anyone in the athletics department help guide you toward scholarship opportunities? Sorry I don’t know anything to help out.
My OOS son got into Furman tonight. Got an portal update notification in his email, checked and there was a lovely welcome video in his portal.
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Has anyone visited? We are heading there in a few week.
We visited in January 2020. Our daughter loved the campus, the community, and the academic offerings. The student tour guides were personable and talked with each of the prospective students during tour. We stayed in downtown Greenville and highly recommend taking the time to check out the area. It’s a lovely, walkable downtown with lots of great restaurants. I really hope you get a good sense of the students, campus and community even with the current situation (we were there pre-Covid).
We wished we’d seen the village of Travelers Rest a couple miles north of Furman. There’s a great bike path running through the campus that connects it to Travelers Rest (a couple miles north) and to downtown Greenville (maybe about seven miles to the south).
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Did your D ever hear anything about the full tuition scholarship? 
Nope. Anyone else?
Nope…still hoping she will be contacted for interview. Some said they might happen in Feb?
We did get hard copy of FA in the mail yesterday. For us, it’s just the merit award.
Same here. We hoped it was something more exciting coming in that nice folder. Ha.
We too were drawn in by the marketing. Merit only in our home. We had hoped for a little need-based. D19 was offered need-based at Furman, but D21 was offered $10k more in merit. I know I’m attracted to the label of “merit” vs grant, but I’m guessing that the price would have been the same whether she had earned the larger award. I do like merit since we know it won’t change once D19 is out of school (when we only have one in college at a time).
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I contacted our admissions counselor and she said DukeScholarship interview invites won’t find out until late February early March
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Thank you very much for sharing this!
Glad to know this!! Thank you very much.
We just received an emailed invitation to interview for Duke Scholarship.
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Congratulations! My daughter did too.
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Congrats! My daughter did as well. Good luck to all! I wonder how many interviews for the 8 scholarships.
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Woohoo!! Congratulations!!! 
