Thank you Melissa. I was hoping you would answer. I’ll go ahead an have him fill out everything to complete the application.
Melissa, my son submitted two SAT scores and it shows everything completed with SAT scores received 8/25/2023. The SAT scores were 1550 and 1540 (super-score 1560). If in two weeks he gets a better SAT score, should we submit that as well? Or will it reset the grandparent waiver queue date?
Also, once he is informed of national merit semifinalist status, should we let UF know?
No, sending additional scores will not change the queue, there just needs to be a qualifying score to be placed on it. You would not need to let us know about semifinalist status.
Thank you Melissa, we appreciate your help.
Hello, my son applied to FSU on September 10 and his application was deemed complete (scores received) on September 16. He will be eligible for the Grandparent Tuition Wavier but has not been able to submit yet because the grandparents have been out of country (so can’t provide the documents). They will be back this weekend and so we should be able to complete and submit the waiver by October 1. Will his place in the queue be based on when his FSU application was complete (9/16) or when his grandparent waiver was submitted (hopefully 10/1)? Thank you in advance for the clarification!
When the grandparent application is submitted.
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Thank you! Do you think an October 1 submission date give good odds for receiving the waiver? Or is that already considered late to the game?
It’s only been a program for 2 years, so pretty hard to tell what the cut off date will be. Also impossible to know if the first 40 or 50 also applied to other Florida schools and will go to UF if accepted or UCF. I think there are some threads from last year that talked about being on a wait list and whether they cleared.
Doesn’t FSU also have other ways to get instate tuition? (Honors? NMF)
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I will have to check out the Honors possibility - is that an auto award? Son is not a NMF.
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You can see a listing of Admission Scholarships here:
FSU Admissions | First-Year Scholarships
FSU does offer OOS tuition waivers based on merit (grades and test scores). You don’t have to be NMF or honors. You may want to check the FSU forum, to see if anyone awarded the OOS last year listed their scores/grades.
My son applied for grandparent tuition waiver last year a couple days after the application deadline, which was around Nov 7 bc/o a week delay bc/o Hurricane Ian. He was waitlisted for it until after the commitment date but was offered it right after, May 4 if memory serves. A classmate who applied in October was waitlisted when she was first admitted to UF but had it before she had to make her decision.
FSU offers more OOS merit aid than UF, but my son was offered a small merit-based tuition waiver (I think they offer $2k to $8k in merit-based tuition waivers to OOS students) but they swapped that out for the more valuable full in-state tuition offer when he got that.
I don’t know if it wd be easier or harder to get the tuition waiver at FSU. I do think it will get harder each year overall as awareness of it grows. I was surprised how many people didn’t know of it last year.
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^my son was applying to UF
Thank you - my son applied to both UF and FSU. I wonder which is more likely for him to receive a waiver. I just submitted for it today.
Has anyone heard any news on their application for a waiver?
You won’t hear until after decisions. Right now, only the ineligible applicants are being told they can reapply if they meet the minimum requirements.
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Thank you
I was interested that last year, at least, if you applied/qualified immediately after applying at the last day for the priority UF deadline (basically last minute for UF, even though UF’s priority deadline is everybody else’s early action deadline), you did wind up getting the waiver, right after the May 1 commitment date. So you had to commit not knowing whether you’d come off the grandparent waiver WL, but you did get it right away then. I wonder if that will continue or if more people will learn about the grandparent waiver and apply.
Do you know if more people applied/qualified last year than the year before (the first year for the waiver, I think)?
There were definitely more applications last year. Since they’re not ours to award we can only give them out when they state gives us some to allocate (and then more when they add additional ones). We have definitely expressed it is better to let people know before May 1st.
Do you know if there are more again this year yet?
We won’t know that for a while still.