Merit Scholarship

<p>I was awarded a Merit Scholarship to Case and I know I will not recieve any more aid. I do not have to apply for Fin Aid to keep my Scholarship award do I? Just want to make sure that is the case before I don't apply for Fin Aid.</p>

<p>Nope, your merit award will be awarded to you regardless of whether you apply for fin aid or not.</p>

<p>But really there is no reason why you shouldn't apply for Finacial aid no matter how much you family income is. It can't hurt you.</p>

<p>The Case sponsored national merit awards range from $500-2,000/yr and they heavily look at financial aid FAFSA information to determine what you get. If you don't turn in the FAFSA you typically get $750/yr. If you do turn it in and they don't think you need anymore aid you get $500/yr. The bigger awards are for people with big financial aid packages to get rid of some of their loans. I was in the same boat as cyprus2006 and new that I wouldn't receive any FAFSA aid so I didn't turn in and got $750/yr. But this ONLY applies to the national merit awards and there's no need to turn in FAFSA for the pres/provost/trustee. It's the same amt regardless of what your FAFSA says. Hope that helps</p>

<p>ya I got one of the others. I just don't want to go through the hastle because with the 15,700 I am getting in merit there is no possible chance for more aid so it is just not worth the hastle. Thanks for the help</p>

<p>Cyprus: <em>hassle</em></p>

<p>So you got your finaid letter from Case with all the awards listed, including Natl Merit? My son is still waiting.</p>

<p>no my test scores were no where close to good enough for National Merit. Thank you Critical reading and writting. But I got my scholoarship award information in my admissions letter. I am not going to apply for need based aid because I will not be eligable for any.</p>

<p>My D, a FR, says that Case only offered half the number of merit scholarships this year that they offered last year.</p>

<p>I wonder with the current deficit and a new president coming in, if next year may be even fewer.</p>

<p>merit scholarships are based on income from endowments and have nothing to do with operations deficits....that is, you cannot spend income from targeted endowments on operations....</p>

<p>(from mother of psatmadness)</p>

<p>mother of psatmadness, thanks, good point. BUT, operations deficits likely lead to tuition and fee increases which in turn reduce the amount and/or the quantity of available merit awards.</p>

<p>We met with financial-aid officer when our D went to interview last Friday. He told us that tuition had gone up ~10% each year for the last 2 years.</p>

<p>well perhaps. good thing about case is it increases the amount of the scholarship for incoming freshmen...bad thing (but typical of most institutions) is that the amount of the scholarship doesn't go up after the first year...even if tuition does....</p>

<p>actually tuition has been increasing for all institutions and it looks like the increase at Case was no more than the average for most institutions for next year.</p>

<p>There are also some upperclassmen scholarships from the Alumni Association up to 5-6k maybe even more a year available for Jr/Sr for BS Science and Engineering students. There are other scholarships in humanities for certain majors. So they can help to off set the tuition increases. The Alumni Association gives out several hundred each year.</p>