One is the “LMU award” - I’m guessing this might be a grant that isn’t guaranteed for future years. Maybe? The other is a scholarship that I did find listed on their scholarship site. It does not have an * by it, so it might be for all 4 years but that isn’t clear on the website or on the award letter. We will contact them next week to ask, I just think they could have made it much clearer!
Is the “LMU Award”, an “LMU Achievement Award?” If so, seems like all LMU scholarships listed on their site, including LMU Achievement awards, are renewable for four years.
https://financialaid.lmu.edu/prospectivestudents/scholar
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$30K/year plus additional 2K for early action. 4.51 WGPA, 1450 SAT. Many APs with 4s and 5s on exams.
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same as Puglsey 4.89 WGPA, 1440 SAT, 3 APS with 4s & 5s 6 dual enrollment and a LOT of community service
Does anyone have the latest cost of attendance for 2023-2024 handy ? The website only have information for 2022-2023
Thanks
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A little disappointed in my son’s merit offer.
He was offered $18,500 Arrupe + $2K EA per year. Strong academic stats (4.6W, 3.96UW, 15 APs, 1490 SAT) and ECs (Community Service, Performing Arts, Class president, Governor’s School Attendee, State Leadership, etc.). I don’t know if it makes sense for him to reach out and ask him if there’s any possibility of being reconsidered for Presidential. He does have a few updates to his resume (a new job, a role in a musical and a new club). He’s a finalist for a full ride at SeattleU and has gotten into a mix of other schools (similarly ranked) with much higher merit. He won’t hear from most of the more selective schools on his list until March.
Estimated Tuition and Fees - $58,413
Estimated Housing and Food - $20,713
Estimated Direct Costs Total - $79,126
Thanks.
This is a perfect example of while so many small private schools are circling the drain. My daughters 14k scholarship brings the cost DOWN to 66k per year and the 79 figure doesn’t take into account other costs like travel. The days where a student/family will take on debt like this for an undergrad degree are behind us.
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I found out after the fact that LMU is known for being not very generous. Guessing they reserve their generosity for kids who come from Catholic high schools and have very high needs
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FYI–My daughter received the Presidential Merit award–$30,000. She goes to a public HS and we didn’t submit FAFSA/CSS.
But yes, it’s still quite expensive.
Congrats! Compared to other SLACs, however, even $30k is not generous. If you can afford $54k, awesome. Many families cannot. My daughter’s ticket price was still in the $40k range, and there is no way when other options have an after-aid price in the $10k-$20k range!
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I think Compared to the previous year the total cost estimate for LMU went up about 9 percent . I was really surprised… I don’t see other colleges went up by that much (yet)… this is hard with the down turn in economy - we have some 529 saved but the value has been going down …
Congrats indeed …
Thank you but it wouldn’t be 54k a year.
With the additional 2k EA award, tuition/R&B would come be @ 41k.
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Yes, that is big increase. Fordham also had a similar price hike. The cost of college is out of control and makes you wonder what the price will be in 4 years when they are seniors. It is hard to plan financially, particularly with 529s losing value!
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Ah, my mistake on remembering the numbers. Yes, all I can say is if your student won a presidential scholarship, which is based on merit, they could have gotten equivalent or better awards at other schools. But we may never know, since we obviously only find out these numbers after the application process is over. This process is maddening! Good luck to your student wherever they end up!
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The kids who have the highest gpas get the big merit offers. However, LMU may be a safety for them, if they get into a UC or somewhere else. My question is: where does that merit money go if the kid who was offered $30k in merit doesn’t attend? Will they offer those scholarships to the kids who decided to enroll who only got $10k?
I don’t know what criteria they use but it wasn’t just grades. Our daughter has 4.0 unweighted at a school that is generally considered at least somewhat rigorous (lots of APs and college going culture) and she got 14k per year. She also has strong ECs. Her weakness was probably service outside of school. She has some good service but school based and very little service in the community outside of school.
I think schools each have their own unique criteria. My daughter was offered the presidential scholarship + 2k EA. Her stats: 4.8 W, 3.97 UW. 5 APs. 6 Dual Enrollment, 1440 SAT, over 1k hours of community service, and Gold Award (Girl scout equiv of Eagle) so very similar qualifications .
Interestingly she was only offered 18K at Seattle U. whereas she was offered about 30K in all the schools she has heard back from so far.
Your son probably had something Seattle U wanted more than LMU and vice versa for my daughter.
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