Merit Awards

<p>Do Merit Awards or acceptance to Honors come with initial acceptance or at a later date?</p>

<p>My daughter received her merit award letter a few weeks after her acceptance. It came in a large ( 9x12) envelope from the honors college along with information about the honors college. She applied RD, not EA as you obviously have done, so I don't know if it works differently for EA candidates.</p>

<p>I think it's like a week or two later. Look through the old blog posts...</p>

<p>The webpage says that honor college/merit aid notifications are posted a few weeks after acceptance letters.
From what I read on the blog there, they are posted next week.</p>

<p>thanks for the info.</p>

<p>Got my acceptance last week, Honors and scholarship today.</p>

<p>The admissions blog says that Liberal Arts Honors Program invitations were mailed on December 23. I assume it is not good news if it has not arrived yet. :( </p>

<p>Anyone besides Mooseman gotten honors and scholarship letter?</p>

<p>i got my acceptance into the honors program + 3/4 tuition last monday (not yesterday, last week).</p>

<p>on a side note, does anybody know if this tuition will affect my chances of the mlk scholarship? does this now mean that i won't be eligible?</p>

<p>Nets-Balla....would you mind posting your stats? I'd be interested to see since you got the 3/4 tuition scholarship. My daughter will be looking into applying to PC for next year...she's a junior now. Thanks!</p>

<p>Stats: (posted this from another forum)</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 770M 650CR 670W (national merit commended)
* SAT IIs: Math II C: 770, Physics: 730, Chem: 660, Bio E: 650
* GPA: 93.4 W (gone up from 91 frosh yr to 96 jr and sr yr)
* Rank: N/A
* Other stats:
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<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: Nothing special, but definitely not bad at all
* Teacher Recs: Never read them but I imagine they were good
* Counselor Rec: Same as teacher rec
* Hook (if any): Asian maybe?
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<p>[ b]Location/Person:**</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: NJ
* School Type: Private (our school is one of the best in the state; known for getting a lot of kids into PC)
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
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<p>Other Factors:[li] Extracurriculars: Solid list of EC's highlighted by my 20+ hours a week volunteering for local first aid squad- showed commitment to this in my hours and my extra training.</p>[/li]
<p>Note: for the national merit commended thing, when you're allowed to send that recognition to 2 colleges, one of the ones i chose was PC</p>