<p>If only the money offered to people who ended up not going went to other people who could use it ]= Sigh.</p>
<p>Actually, I think a lot of schools that award generous merit to students they want to lure expect a % to refuse & have worked out that % over time & with their formulas. It is frustrating that some students seem to be offered so much & generous merit awards but choose other things.</p>
<p>Oprah is seeking 1 or more students who want to tell their story on national TV for a chance to attend their dream U. I don’t have the link but am sure you can google it.</p>
<p>i was awarded the trustee for annenberg and am trying to decide between that and UNC (no scholarship whatsoever)…for those of you that declined the trustee, any regrets? how did you decide? because i LOVE UNC but i feel like it would be stupid to say no to so much money.</p>
<p>I’m not a trustee kid, but I think you should just seriously choose which school you feel best at. Money’s a big factor but not at the cost of you wishing you were somewhere else for 4 years.</p>
<p>Decision time is coming. it will be hard for some high school seniors to choose which college they should attend, especially if they have many options.</p>
<p>Money is of course important to consider, but not a decided factor. A friend’s S was adimitted to calTech this year. When he went to the admitted student weekend and asked adcom why CalTech eliminated the merit-based award starting from this year. The adcom told him that the merit-based award helps very little for attracting the best of the best students. The yield for students with full-ride merit award is still low, they still choose to go to HYPSM and other schools. So Caltech decided to terminate the program this year. You can see even some students admitted to CalTech + full-ride merit award still choose to attend other schools. this means the fit is more important than money.</p>
<p>D finally decided to attend MIT and gave up USC trustee. This is her decision. We fully support her and don’t want her to have any regret in college selection due to solely financial reason.</p>
<p>Cal Tech experienced some budget cut backs which may or may not be a factor in eliminating the merit-based award just mentioned above.</p>
<p>Congrats to jack1232’s D for great college acceptances.</p>
<p>Ideally,best college fit should be paramount over finances, but this is not always the case depending upon the family’s budget.</p>