I was wondering how temple determined GPA for their scholarships. I have a 4.1 weighted GPA and a 3.69 unweighted GPA but I heard only core classes were counted. What about classes that are elctives in my school such as ap government. Thanks in advanced.
Nope. No electives. Just core.
And is it weighted or unweighted?
It’s weighted, but they apply their own method of weighting.
Temple is making most automatic merit scholarships competitive for next this coming cycle.
Yes, I would not refer to the 2016-2017 automatic scholarship list, but wait until mid-july when the new criteria comes out. I expect it is going to be very different.
Temple apparently awarded $22,000,000 more merit aid than it budgeted for. They just fired the provost in charge of the program.
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Really? Wow! I was wondering how Temple was able to offer as much assured merit as it’s been offering.
@mom2collegekids , I have wondered the same thing. For a public the are giving lots of huge merit to OOS students, including me. Strangely, they even have pretty decent merit for fairly mediocre stats (I think $9000 for 3.25 weighted GPA). I hope they keep the top two levels of the merit scholarships, though. I really feel Temple has been on the rise and every year have been admitting a more competitive class. I think it’s because of the scholarships. According to naviance, applications from my competitve New Jersey high school have practically doubled in the past couple of years. In 2014 49 applied 32 were admitted and 3 enrolled. In 2016 out of 750 in my class
100 applied 62 were admitted and 9 enrolled. I know that at least 5 of us are getting the top 2 scholarships. It’s not even just the money, the Honors program is top notch, which was actually just as important to me as the money.
Like I said in the parents section when I saw the thread about the article, I’m glad our son got in before this happened.
One thing the Director of Admissions told me was they go with the lower score if there’s a difference between GPA and SAT/ACT. My DD had a high GPA but her SAT score kept her from the higher scholarship even when we asked for them to review it. Next year, it’s bound to be even more competitive, so I’m just glad she got in with what she did! As an OOS student, we could not have afforded it without the scholarship.