<p>Have applicants who are being considered for Davidson's general, special competition and special application scholarships already been notified and invited to the merit days preceding Decision Davidson on April 18? I'm a regular decision applicant who hasn't heard anything from Davidson about scholarships. Does that mean I'm not being considered? Or, are regular decision applicants notified of scholarship consideration when they receive admission acceptances?</p>
<p>I applied for the music scholarship and recieved notification by mail on Friday that I didn’t make it to finals. I also applied for the writing merit scholarship, but I haven’t heard a decision on that one. I applied Regular Decision.</p>
<p>Hmm…I would look on the website, but I’m afraid I actually don’t know…</p>
<p>I don’t see any info on the website regarding notification dates/methods for consideration of scholarships. Am I missing it? Has anybody beside gathsquatch received any word on any of the non-Belk scholarships?</p>
<p>I emailed Admissions last month, and was told all merit award recipients “will be notified no later than mid-April”. Mid-April seems a long time away, doesn’t it? Since my D’s already gotten merit awards at lots of schools, it’s hard for her to keep Davidson in her mental list of schools still under consideration. If she doesn’t get any merit money there, she won’t be attending, and notification on that will take us almost down to the wire, as far as making a decision. (Of course, maybe she’ll find out Wednesday that she didn’t get admitted, which would make the decision easy, wouldn’t it?)</p>
<p>For some reason I was under the impression that we would find out about general scholarships about the time the regular admission decisions were sent out. I applied for the science scholarship and have heard nothing so far.</p>
<p>Just got a letter. Not a finalist… oh well. I live in NY.</p>
<p>Haha, HoComom! I like your thoughts about Wednesday’s admission decisions! Same here… no merit $ = no way my parents will pay for me to go to Davidson. I would like to be able to make an informed decision and move on if necessary.</p>
<p>Bustles, What scholarship did you apply for?</p>
<p>just got an email saying i was a finalist for the presidentials scholarship. i was so excited, i actually called them up and verified that i got in. just to be sure. i don’t mind that they now think i’m an idiot. i just felt like i won the lottery adn am now thanking all my recommenders again and thanking my lucky stars… this doesn’t mean i’ll go to davidson, but i’m def. much more thrilled about this place. i totally love everything about this place. my parents don’t like me going there. i think they secretly thought i would not get in so they were banking on that and instead i got in!!</p>
<p>anyway, i’m so excited. so that’s why i’m telling you all that. sorry, i’ll stop right now. </p>
<p>good luck to everyone else!!! i really hope you all do well!! :)</p>
<p>I’m a finalist for the Kuykendall Scholarship and I got word last Friday by email and then Monday by mail. You would have heard by now.</p>
<p>Since the merit days are April 16-17, would I have heard by now if I’m being considered for any merit money?</p>
<p>im so confused about davidson’s merit stuff haha… it seems all over the place. on the admissions letter, a piece said that we will know about merit $ in “late April”. that’s kinda crazy!!</p>
<p>D got her “financial aid” (or lack thereof) letter today – and it says that Davidson will notify students of merit aid AFTER April 15. That is crazy indeed!</p>
<p>Affffterrr april 15th… I swearr!! I thought (gladly) the days of nervously waiting were over !</p>
<p>Wonder if Davidson tells us they’ll announce merit aid after April 15 to keep us interested in case their first choices for scholarships (who I assume have been invited to the merit days preceding Decision Davidson) decide to attend elsewhere? Does anyone know if all the people being considered for scholarships are invited to the merit days or is it only for certain scholarships?</p>
<p>We never heard anything about any merit scholarships, so I called the Financial Aid office yesterday to confirm. Basically, although the conversation was rather vague, I was told that the remaining merit awards were given out with acceptance notifications or financial aid notifications (we didn’t submit an aid application). There were fewer merit scholarships this year due to the economic downturn, more need-based aid given out, the elimination of loans from the packages, and a decrease in value of their endowments. It sounded as though all of the remaining merit scholarships became part of the need packages, helping to solve the shortfall (i.e., they were not really merit-based only).</p>
<p>I was told that since Davidson is one of the most selective LAC’s in the country, I should be very proud to be able to pay full price (with my after-tax dollars) for this opportunity. This is her “merit” award–the opportunity to pay full price of around $200000. </p>
<p>Also interesting to note that although my daughter was a National Merit Finalist and Scholar, and Davidson is listed on the PSAT brochure as awarding National Merit Scholarships (automatic at most schools listed), she was not offered one. (Her National Merit award of $20000 at Vanderbilt was automatic, and at other schools she received a higher award, which overrode the NM scholarship.)</p>
<p>Sounds like many of us were waiting for the 15th or 20th for nothing. Full pay at Davidson or substantial merit scholarships at other Universities and LAC’s. I’m sorry to say, we’re part of that middle-class that is being “squeezed” out of these institutions, and Davidson won’t be an option for us…</p>
<p>As I wrote on another thread, I find it amazing that schools have taken this approach of giving absolutely no scholarships to students who probably in any other year would have gotten something (even if small). Davidson is not the only school doing this, just another one that has become unaffordable to the middle class. It seems to me that for this year if you didn’t qualify for “the big” scholarship and did not qualify for merit based aid that you received nothing at many schools that in prior years had given aid to top students regardless. Sad.</p>
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<p>Yes, that’s just what we were told. What’s puzzling or frustrating to me is that at information sessions, on the website, and in printed literature, Davidson promises to make itself affordable to all students. I guess we just have a different understanding of affordable.</p>
<p>Same goes for me! What frustrates me the most is that I interview very well yet, because Davidson aboslutely refused to do any interviews I’m just another drop in the bucket. At two other LACs I tripled my scholarship after interviewing (one to 128,000 dollars). So sorry Davidson, great school, too big a price. I would have been willing to pay up to 28,000 dollars a year to go to such a great school but because I wasn’t offered anything, Davidson is off my radar.</p>
<p>And on zetesis’ point, definitely different understandings! I have a friend who didn’t get any aid from Davidson either. For some reason I don’t think a family that makes around 75,000 dollars a year (he tolde me it was ok to share) with 2 kids about to go to college too should have to pay full price at a 43,000 dollar a year institution. And apparently other schools agree with me because they allowed him to appeal his merit and financial aid award after he expressed interest in attending and told of his inability to pay!</p>