<p>My DD is thrilled to be accepted to Stony Brook. She's always wanted to go to a SUNY even though we live in Florida, and she's been particularly interested in Stony Brook's environmental studies program. I grew up on Long Island and think she'd love it.</p>
<p>Looking on their website, it says they give scholarships to students with "meritorious" unweighted GPAs and other factors including SAT scores, curriculum, and ECs. </p>
<p>My question is, what is "meritorious?" Most of the schools to which DD has applied and been accepted (in some cases with scholarship offers) consider the WEIGHTED GPA because, I assume, to do otherwise would penalize those who took hard classes. DD has a 3.1 uw but much higher weighted. She also went to a rigorous school (ranked 69 in the US by Newsweek), has good ECs (Girl Scout Gold Award and a competitive summer internship related to her major) and volunteer hours and a pretty good SAT score, 2050 (1360 CR and M).</p>
<p>I put her stats into Stony Brook's Net Price Calculator, but since "4.0 or above" was one of the options for GPA, I assumed they meant weighted (no way to be above 4.0 uw) and put in that GPA. That spit out a $6,000 per year merit scholarship, which would probably make Stony Brook her top choice, especially since the New York State schools are a bit less expensive than some other out-of-state schools to which she's been accepted, such as Clemson and Arizona. </p>
<p>But any insights as to the definition of "meritorious" (or the stats of those who have gotten scholarships in the past) would be helpful.</p>
<p>Thanks. I replied to it, but I’m not sure it sent because it’s not showing up in my outbox. Anyway, very helpful It sounds like she should get at least something then.</p>
<p>I am also very curious as to the definition of “meritorious” (or the stats of those who have gotten scholarships in the past). We are also OOS and although the Stony Brook out of state tuition is reasonable, have received multiple academic offers from other schools which make them more reasonable. My student’s stats are very similar to Alex23.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi Alex–Congrats on the SBU admission, and I am also interested in what you find out, as SBU is on our list. My DS is a junior interested in engineering and we’re visiting in March as part of a swing through several northeast colleges/univs. We like SBU’s value, location (close to family), and rep for STEM.</p>
<p>I received a full tuition and fees (which there are alot of) scholarship and was admitted to scholars (never applied for honors)
1510/1600 (800 cr, 710 math), 2200/2400 sat, 33 ACT, 3.6 weighted gpa, instate, family income >500k, no legacy or anything. No volunteer, vp of a major club for two years and multiple international level awards.</p>
<p>You might be seeing some merit money with a 1360, but i feel that the given is a bit high, as that’s on the lower end for honors. I’d expect about half tuition and fees, but you could get substantially more.</p>
<p>Congrats. 3.6 weighted or unweighted? Instate or out? My daughter got a notification and, for some reason, I can’t open their PDF. Struggling with it and very curious . . . :(</p>
<p>Oh, nvm, managed to open it. Provost’s scholarship, $7,000. Now, we have thinking to do.</p>
<p>My daughter just got a email this morning with a letter stating that she received the Provost Scholarship for $8000 per year. We are out of state. However, she got a letter in the mail last night saying that she made it into the WISE Program (did not make Honors) and that she would receive a separate letter talking about the WISE Scholarship. </p>
<p>My question is, do you think that is part of the 8k or will she get a WISE Scholarship on top of that? Any info would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Dunno, but your daughter’s Provost Scholarship is $1,000 more than my daughter’s, so it could be that that is the WISE scholarship, or it could be that they have Provost’s Scholarships in different amounts. However, the fact that they said they’d e-mail you about it would seem to imply that she’s getting more than just what they said. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks Alex. Did your daughter apply into WISE or Honors? I just called the fin aid office and the lady I talked to didn’t really know the answer to my question. I just wish I knew, if we got a few more thousand, it would put it into the range where we could possibly afford it.</p>
<p>Provost must come in different amounts because my D received one for full tuition (OOS), not sure if that includes fees, waiting for response to question about that. Also in same e-mail letter received additional NMF scholarship for $3,000 per year, so you can get more than one scholarship.</p>
<p>That is good to know Celeste, congrats to your daughter, that is a fantastic scholarship! My only concern now is that you were notified of both in the same email.</p>
<p>I wonder how they determine the scholarships…</p>
<p>I am in state, 2200 sat, 96 unweighted 99 weighted gpa, 4 aps, over 1500 hours of community service hours, national commended scholar, good extra curriculars… And I received the $3500 scholarship</p>
<p>I’m grateful for this but I was hoping for a Bit more :/</p>
<p>Thanks. It’s very generous of them. Now have to see if I can get my D to visit during spring break. </p>
<p>I’m not sure, but it may be WISE administers their own scholarships. These that my D received are general university scholarships from FinAid. You know, like at many schools you might also get an engineering scholarship from that dept separately from general scholarships if you apply into engineering.</p>
<p>It sounds like they give more to out-of-staters than instate because, obviously, the tuition is more. My daughter’s $7,000 is less than half tuition (She also has great extracurriculars, including Girl Scout Gold Award and lots of APs), while your $3,500 is quite a bit more than half of the instate rate. There is a state university here in my home state (Florida) which typically gives good students (anyone with over a 4.0 weighted) full tuition and fees, then allows them to keep their state award, so they’re actually being paid to attend college there . . . but it’s not a very prestigious university.</p>
<p>That is, of course, the Catch-22 – the great school you have to pay for or the so-so school where they will give you more.</p>
<p>She did not apply for WISE or Honors. She applied for Stony Brook at the last minute.</p>
<p>Were those that were accepted into honors already notified of this? I am hoping to get into honors, but don’t know when or how I will be notified.</p>
<p>My daughter got her notification about Honors and Wise through regular mail not email. She received it yesterday. She was told she did not make it into the Honors Program which was her first choice but did get into Wise. Sounds like they made these decisions already and are probably all in the mail.</p>