<p>I am currently a college sophomore, when I applied to school in for fall 2012 I accidentally sent my ACT score of 29 from June 2011, instead of my ACT score of 30 for October 2011. This 1 point difference was the difference between a half scholarship and a full tuition scholarship... Now a year and a half later I just realized my mistake. I really hope my school is flexible to honor my scholarship for the rest of the time here. And guess last year is just a lost cause of wasted money... What do you guys think?</p>
<p>I doubt they change it now. Worth a try though.</p>
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You should always report all your scores.
Why would they give you more scholarship, given that you’re attending the school already. I also think that the annual renewal of scholarships will be depending on your GPA, and you ACT score would not matter anymore.</p>
<p>Its going to be a hard battle and it was a huge oversight, but I do have a fairly legitimate argument. I am a 3.8 student with a double major and a minor, I am an RA, I have several leadership positions on campus, I managed these things while playing football and working 25 hours a week last semester. For a small private school with plenty of money and not enough high profile students, I am an asset, and I have as much to offer them as they do me. If they don’t want to comply I can transfer to a school with more to offer me.</p>
<p>It will be in your best interest to approach the school in a humble manner, explain your error in submitting test scores, and ask if the powers that be could possibly increase your scholarship to the level that you would have qualified for if you had been attentive to your application requirements. It is probable that you missed the deadline for submitting improved scores and will not be awarded further money (I know a few students at our state school who also did not receive the max scholarship because they missed the deadline for submitting new scores and, no, the school did not increase their awards and they discovered their errors much sooner than you did.) You may want to reconsider a “threat” to transfer to another school as merit money, if offered at all to transfer students, is rarely as generous as that offered to freshmen.
Re-read your post. You portray a very entitled attitude about a situation that arose due to your error.</p>
<p>I am sorry, I do come off as very arrogant and I hate that. My plan is to ask very humbly and then employ any argument I can to help my case. At the end of the day I am a desperate college student, wishing I hadn’t made a huge mistake.</p>
<p>You knew that you had the needed score, so why didn’t you notice the problem when you were first awarded the smaller scholarship…that should have been the red flag. If your score gets full tuition, then you should have questioned the situation then.</p>
<p>Good luck. I don’t know if they’ll do anything.</p>
<p>As for transferring, schools know that transfers rarely get much merit so they won’t be scared about any transfer threats. Who else is going to give you full tuition as a transfer?</p>
<p>It was an honest mistake and I don’t honestly plan on transferring but to answer your question there are state schools I could go to for cheaper. I do appreciate the advice though. I regret the hastiness with which my earlier posts were made, I was upset by my mistake and truly just venting. We’ll see how it goes. I have to expect the worst and hope for best.</p>
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<p>If the school really wanted to give you more $$, they would have done it based on your performance since you have been in college. </p>
<p>It is highly unlikley that they are going to increase your scholarship due to your negligence in submitting the correct set of scores and just discovered 1.5 years later your error. </p>
<p>The school admitted you and granted you a scholarship, based on the information that you submitted. You accepted the offer. You missed the opportunity to request more $$ which would have been at the time of the initial scholarship offer, where you could have said, I scored a 30, which would make me eligible for full tuition, would you consider increasing my scholarship?</p>
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<p>If the school really wanted to give you more $$, they would have done it based on your performance since you have been in college. </p>
<p>It is highly unlikley that they are going to increase your scholarship due to your negligence in submitting the correct set of scores and just discovered 1.5 years later your error. </p>
<p>The school admitted you and granted you a scholarship, based on the information that you submitted. You accepted the offer. You missed the opportunity to request more $$ which would have been at the time of the initial scholarship offer, where you could have said, I scored a 30, which would make me eligible for full tuition, would you consider increasing my scholarship?</p>
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<p>Since ACT charges a separate fee for each score report, and ACT scores are not superscored, that’s just bad advice. There’s no reason to send all ACT scores unless a school requires it.</p>
<p>But, yes, it is helpful to send your highest score, and not your lowest one. ;)</p>
<p>By the way, most schools with automatic scholarships also have a deadline for submission of scores . . . and I’d guess that start of sophomore year would probably be WAY past that deadline! (And the deadlines are generally inflexible. Otherwise, students could keep taking tests forever in order to increase their scholarship awards.)</p>
<p>Interesting, I had no idea that ACT subscores were never superscored. Even more confusing as the CA requests you enter your highest sub score for multiple ACT tests…</p>
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<p>I think you’re looking at this question the wrong way, jratliff. For you, this may be a question about what you deserve–and maybe that’s the way everyone should look at this situation–but for the college, it’s about economics–and that’s how I think the college (the people with the money) will look at it. </p>
<p>They’ve already got you. And evidently they got you on sale, so to speak. But when they got you, that freed up the additional money they might have spent on you to use elsewhere. And I’m sure they’ve already used it on somebody else’s scholarship.</p>
<p>You say that you could just transfer to some other college that would make you a better offer, but that may be harder than you’re thinking. Very few colleges have much merit aid for transfer students. In addition, it would cost you time, money and inconvenience to transfer. And the exact monetary costs of transferring are hard to know up front. Besides the costs of applications, test reports, etc., there’s also the possibility that you’ll lose credits in the transfer, which would also cost you money.</p>
<p>From the college’s perspective, it’s an issue of institutional budgeting. They budgeted for merit aid in the class that you entered with, and they projected their costs for that merit aid over four years. They’ve spent that money. There is new merit-aid money coming into the pipeline, but it’s not earmarked for your class; it’s for the people who will be entering next fall as freshmen.</p>
<p>So, yeah, you can ask. Indeed, you should ask; asking doesn’t cost you anything. But I don’t think they’re actually going to come through with more money, for these reasons.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>There are some schools that do superscore ACT (not many).
[Colleges</a> that superscore the ACT » College Admissions Counseling](<a href=“http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/college-testing/colleges-superscore-act/]Colleges”>Colleges that superscore the ACT - BS/MD Admissions by College Admissions Partners)</p>
<p>^^^ Wow - that’s a pretty impressive list! I stand corrected.</p>
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How do you know the test score that you’re sending will be the highest?</p>
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Also some schools require students to submit ALL scores. Always follow the schools’ policies.</p>
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<p>Well, I’m just assuming that a student who achieves both a 29 and a 30 on the ACT has enough math acumen to know which of those numbers is greater . . . ;)</p>
<p>And if you read my post, 4kidsdad, you’ll see that I actually did mention that some colleges require all scores.</p>
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<p>That does require you to wait and see your test scores, which means passing up the free score reports. It’s a sneaky system: “Sure, you can send some score reports for free, but if you want the comfort of knowing that the scores you’re reporting are scores you’re satisfied with, that is going to cost you!”</p>
<p>Looking back at posts #9 and # 10 and so forth, they may be correct that the school does not need to do anything. But you should try; they may see the situation in a fair and open way.<br>
My nephew was awarded merit money that seemed very good - about 50% to a private in California - it made it possible for him to attend. However, once there he learned from others that in fact he received less than other students with his same qualifications, grades, test scores etc. He was a NMSF. He spoke to the Dean of the school, and they agreed that he was qualified to receive more merit aid, and they granted it. He made his case with documented evidence and, knowing him, a humble approach. He is a top student, also an RA, and I’m sure valued at the school. That was at the end of his freshman year. Now with his RA stipend and increased merit money his family pays under $10,000 annually. Go, make your case, with as much documentation as you can, and as humbly as you can.</p>