<p>Congratulations on the scholarship but it sure ain’t $13K/year:</p>
<p>"The Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship is a total of $15,000, paid over 4 years ($5,000 each for the freshman and sophomore years and $2,500 each for the junior and senior years). "</p>
<p>ahh whoops sorry mistyped that haha thanks for clarifying.</p>
<p>do i need to complete a scholarship application to be considered for any kind of scholarship?</p>
<p>nope pretty sure your automatically considered.</p>
<p>You go to the finance tab in myCUBoulder account, choose scholarship application. The link will lead you to an application for in-state scholarships.</p>
<p>Hey,
I received by scholarship (presidential, $55,000 over 4 years) roughly 2 weeks after I received by acceptance, which were both in December. I believe there are 2 big OOS merit awards, one for 15,000 and one for 55,000</p>
<p>rrraaayyy27: What were your stats like?</p>
<p>what sucks is that 55k scholarship would pay for less than 3 semesters. But its still a lot better than the 15k chancellors so ya i’m curious what your stats were too.</p>
<p>I went to school in Colorado 30 years ago, and CU was charging the highest OOS tuition, even then. The comment about there being a seemingly ready pool of full-pay kids dying to live in Colorado is right on. The boom in Colorado cache started with the popularity of John Denver. Yeah, I’m old…</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see if a) CU accepts more OOS to fill the coffers, and b) if those accepted students will cough up the dough, this year especially.</p>
<p>We love Colorado, but are having a tough time encouraging our HS senior to attend, given the somewhat more generous private school merit aid picture (not in Colorado, of course.)</p>
<p>riverrunner,
I’ve always been interested in how natives (locals) feel about the huge influx of OOS-ers attending Colorado and CSU. I’m a UT Austin aluma (30+ years and counting). It is next to impossible to get into UT these days unless you graduate in the *now top 8% of your senior class. OOS tuition is $30K and the stats of the applicants are wowing, to say the least. My son graduated from CU in 2007; my daughter is wait-listed with 3.2 GPA and 26 ACT. University of Arizona was actually her first choice and that is where she will most likely be attending. I am interested to see if she’s admitted, though. Will ride it out and post the admission decision upon release. And, yes I know the formula: Below 3.50 needs a 28 composite score or better. My D was admitted to Tulane, though, where the benchmark is 28. Go figure.</p>
<p>I’ve read on numerous sites of students being accepted to CU only to learn of how expensive it will be for them to attend, given the high OOS tuition. Didn’t you bother to read that before you applied? I’ve also noticed that CU freshman admission is still open. What’s up with that? It was originally set to close on 01/15. </p>
<p>*was top 10%. Formula was decided by the Texas Legislature years ago to guarantee Texas residents the opportunity to attend “their” university. Haven’t lived in the state in 7+ years. I think there is probably some amending to this ruling in the works.</p>
<p>yes, we “bothered to read” the OOS amount for CU.</p>
<p>Our family’s approach to college applications is to cast a wide net, and to try to be realistic about all factors, including cost. We knew CU would be expensive, but needed to weigh it against other schools and their finaid offers. I guess what has surprised me the most is the very generous LAC $s and the much lower cost of OOS at comparable quality state schools in California, for example. </p>
<p>I don’t believe out of state applicants SHOULD get much help in terms of a break in the cost- we haven’t been paying taxes in Colorado, after all. For our family, as we near the end of this kid’s application process, CU starts to look VERY expensive for the luxury of living in Boulder, compared to some of her other choices. Hindsight is 20/20. I probably wouldn’t have encouraged her to apply, knowing what we know now…</p>
<p>Thanks for responding. I’m often asked if I think my D will be admitted over an in-state applicant with the same stats, given the fact the school will receive 4X the tuition. My response is always, “I hope not. We don’t need nor desire to buy our way into college.” I hope the school will honor the resident whose parents having been paying taxes, etc. The truth be know, I’m the one who suggested CU to my daughter. I really enjoyed spending time in Boulder during my son’s undergraduate years. Who doesn’t/wouldn’t? She stated that CU was her brother’s experience and that visiting him over the four-year period he was there became rather tiresome. She wants her own experience. I understand.</p>
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Well, the middle 50% is 29-32, so there are 25% below that number. Admittedly her stats are at the lower end for Tulane, but obviously they saw something they liked. Congrats to her for that! Maybe she was outstanding in community service?</p>
<p>Anyway, I totally agree with you and river that State schools should favor in state students, but it has been documented already that cash strapped systems like the U Cal schools are upping the percentage of full pay OOS for exactly the reasons you mention. I think that is so wrong. UNC Chapel Hill, for example, has to take a certain (high) % of in-state, I am told. I would be very upset if I had been paying state taxes for years and then my kid got aced out of a slot because of a policy like that. Can you say lawsuit, lol?</p>
<p>Colorado residents can hardly gripe about any preference given to OOS when Colorado ranks 49th in the country for support of higher education (apparently because people are unwilling to pay for it - Colorado ranks 47th in tax burden). Can’t have it both ways…lol.</p>
<p>Sure you can. That only means that potentially, based on low funding, the school might suck. But that is a matter of deciding it is worth paying more in taxes to get better quality, not having my kid shut out from attending because they take OOS by preference. Or they can raise both in-state tuition and OOS tuition if they have to, but there is never any excuse for having a state university that doesn’t fill every slot with a qualified student from their home state before taking a single OOS student.</p>
<p>Hi sorry for such a late response. I have a 4.08 GPA with a 32 ACT and subject tests of US history (690) and math level two (680). Hope that helps!</p>
<p>rrraaayyy27: Thanks for posting your stats. Congratulations by the way! What do you think my son’s chances are for getting the same scholarship? He has 4.0 unweighted, probably at least 4.3 weighted, 31 ACT, and subject tests of Math II 800 and Chemistry 740. Do you think he has any chance? I didn’t think they looked at the subject tests at all…</p>
<p>well in comparison to myself, it certainly seems like he should. However, I was recently talking with someone who had a 4.0 and a 2230 SAT and he only received the 15,000. So I am not entirely sure what made one person get the 55,000 over another. Your son definitely has a shot, especially with such a high GPA. And I agree, I do not think they look at subject tests.</p>
<p>rrraaayyy27: Is your GPA of 4.08 weighted? We sure hope he gets it, we really need it to pay for his attendance at CU. It seems a high SAT or ACT is not enough to get this scholarship… Not quite sure what stats are necessary.</p>
<p>Yea the 4.08 was weighted. I had around a 3.75 unweighted. In myopinion there was nothing outstanding in me as an applicant, so I would say ur son should get it.</p>