<p>I was wondering something after paying D's tuition bill last week. We are from OOS and D is in the SC honors college, but has no other USC scholarship support, so she gets the SC honors college scholarship which is $1400 per year. She also gets the reduced scholarship tuition, not the lower in-state tuition. According to the bursar website, only the named scholarship students and capstone scholars get the actual in-state tuition. I know my D's situation is a bit unusual since she applied too late to be considered for any of the named scholarships, but why would capstone scholars get the reduced in-state tuition rate and not honors college students?</p>
<p>good question; I wondered same when I read that</p>
<p>Unless something is new this year, Capstone Scholars designation alone doesn't equal in-state tuition remission. Most Capstones have also received at least some other merit award and most we know of were at a McKissick award level which in addition to the $2000 annually also gets the in-state tuition remission.</p>
<p>This is from the USC website:</p>
<p>Fee Description
USC Columbia
UNDERGRADUATE - NONRESIDENT SCHOLARSHIP - GENERAL UNIVERSITY
Note 3 $3,973 </p>
<p>Note 3: Only Columbia campus students named as McNair, Lieber, Cooper, McKissick, Alumni and Capstone scholars.</p>
<p>It specifically says capstone scholars.</p>
<p>kmkord
why not call admissions or the bursars office for a definitive answer?</p>
<p>kmkord,
well I guess that discrepancy has been cleared and cleaned up.</p>
<p>updated info: the latest entry on the admissions blog entitled "the Voice of Mister Ed" (uscbloggers.com/ed/2008/2/capstone)
in reference to Capstone scholars states that all OOS Capstone Scholars get either a McKissick or Cooper scholarship. Wouldn't that mean then that they all get the reduced in state tuition rate?</p>
<p>Yes it would.</p>
<p>What about Honors College students? Would they also get either McKissick or Cooper? (Assuming they applied by the deadlines). It seems odd that an Honors College student would not be granted the in-state tuition level -- but maybe that's only for those who applied later in the cycle></p>
<p>Don
S is in Honors and doesnt know anyone who doesnt have some sort of scholarship support</p>