<p>My S was accepted to UConn into the Honors program and they offered him 5k/yr. The next acceptance came from RIT, but they didn't include anything about merit money. Do some schools offer merit money after acceptance or does it normally appear with the acceptance letter? Reason I ask is I was a bit surprised they didn't offer him any money with a 4.0 GPA, 800 Math (and 790 Math 2 subject, 800 Physics subject) I assumed they would throw him some kind of bone :-)</p>
<p>Are you asking generally? My own experience is limited, but my daughter got one merit aid offer with her acceptance, and another a couple of weeks later.</p>
<p>If you’re asking about RIT’s practice specifically, you’ll probably do better to post your question here: [Rochester</a> Institute of Technology - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/rochester-institute-technology/]Rochester”>Rochester Institute of Technology - College Confidential Forums).</p>
<p>I have found, both from family experience and from reading College Confidential, that offers of merit aid can be hard to predict. Colleges and universities often use merit aid not to reward applicants for their actual merit, but to entice students whom they think they might be able to get, but who they think would probably go elsewhere without a monetary incentive. It’s possible, I suppose, that RIT thought your son would be unlikely to attend, and their merit money would be more effective if they offered it to someone else.</p>
<p>Schools don’t really use SAT II scores for merit awards because those don’t do anything for the school’s reporting for ranking purposes.</p>
<p>Your son’s Math + CR SAT is likely the problem. In another thread, it’s listed at a 1390 because of lowish CR score. That’s likely the problem. </p>
<p>Schools’ rankings are affected by the Math + CR score…that’s why that is used for merit.</p>