<p>Has anyone who was accepted on april first or later received any merit aid information?</p>
<p>We received the acceptance letter for DS last Friday and went to the open house yesterday. There they told us he got no merit aid at all. He really likes the school, so he may write an appeal with merit offers from other schools.</p>
<p>avhsdad
dont remember if your child was interested in BME …have you considered Boston University …and if yes/no, any reasons ?
thanks</p>
<p>Yep, he’s BME and he was accepted to BU, but it’s a very urban campus with a very large undergrad population. We’re at Case right now and that’s going great too.</p>
<p>I received my scholarship letter three days after my April first acceptance letter. I received the Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony merit scholarship, worth $40,000</p>
<p>Would you go to Rice ( which allegedly has a “better” USN ranking ) for BioMed without any schol giving up the 40 k at University of Rochester or Case Western ? Am just trying to figure out how other students are thinking through the value-money equation …thanks</p>
<p>Did I read that right? Almost no school is worth 40k more a year. If a school literally doesn’t have a specific program, that would be a somewhat different matter, but not if the issue is some number of places in rankings.</p>
<h2>It’s not where you went to school it’s what YOU DID at school (especially for undergrad)</h2>
<p>This is just my opinion but:
You should be looking for a school that 1. Has many opportunities and 2. Is a place where you would feel comfortable pursing those opportunities.
^that is the main reason I chose U of R BUT the scholarship was nice too :)</p>
<p>My D was accepted at BU and U of R last year, and she chose U of R, likes it very much, is a physics major but may minor in engineering at some point or continue to grad school in engineering. She didn’t like the urban feel of the campus or lack thereof. She got merit aid but no financial aid. BU was the opposite, no merit aid but financial aid. Since the tuition at both schools was the same as the merit vs. financial aid, D chose the campus she felt she could get the most opportunity at. Good luck to you and your son in your decision.</p>