Merit Scholarships

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<p>Well, the Rice acceptance packet arrived in the mail today. We must be one of the first since we're in Houston.</p>

<p>My son was awarded a Trustee Distinguished Scholarship for $14,500/yr for 4 yrs (and it's renewable if he maintains a 2.8 GPA which is much better than UT's requirement of maintaining a 3.5 GPA for its scholarship)!!!! He also was selected as a Rice Century Scholar (a guaranteed research mentorship and $8,000/yr for 2 years)!!! I am so excited for him I can hardly type. :D</p>

<p>Good luck everyone!</p>

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<p>Congratulations to you and your son, Susan.</p>

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<p>Congrats to your son... that's awesome!</p>

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<p>I just found out that I was awarded the Trustee Distinguished Scholarship for $10,500/yr for four years!!!Best of luck to everyone.</p>

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<p>Congratulations to all! :) DS did not get one, but I was surprised that he even got in, so no disappointments here! I was happy to see that student loans for our income level are capped at $14525 for the four-year total - not too bad, especially if he goes into a well-paying field like engineering (no guarantees with that!!!!)</p>

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<p>The NMSC awards must be included in this figure.</p>

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<p>This is interesting. They raised the package by $1,000<em>4yr + $500</em>2yr over last year's entering class of CSchol/DistngSchols. I wonder how much tuition is going up. Scholarships at Rice usually correlate to tuition increases...</p>

<p>(16000+58000=74000)/(69000)=1.07246376812=7.2% increase. Trends over the past few years have been similar for entering classes. I.E.: 2005-2006 Tution Increase for entering freshman: 1.13685106=13.7% increase.</p>

<p>This news is awesome, I just wanted to see what the University is doing w/respect to its tuition programs. The good news is that Rice will raise your classes tuition much more slowly than it will raise tuition for following classes. I.E.: You're being locked into this price scale but not this tuition price point.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.students.rice.edu/students/2006-2007_Tuition__Fees.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.students.rice.edu/students/2006-2007_Tuition__Fees.asp&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.students.rice.edu/students/Tuition_2005-2006.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.students.rice.edu/students/Tuition_2005-2006.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>And, more generally, welcome to Rice.</p>

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<p>Congrats Susan!</p>

<p>I also got the same double-package...now I'm in a real dilemma: Rice (lots o' aid) vs. MIT (no merit aid) vs. Yale (no merit aid.) and the RD results haven't even come in yet...Arggg....</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/profiles/member_stat_view.html?user_id=36506%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/profiles/member_stat_view.html?user_id=36506&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>How were those who got scholarships notified of it? Was it in the folder with the acceptance stuff? I got my acceptance package but it didn't explicitly say if I did or did not get anything. I'm guessing thats an implicit no, but just wanted to be sure.</p>

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<p>came as separate letter/s, inside left pocket</p>

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<p>ah, damn. That really sucks, because Rice was (and is) by far my first choice, but now my chances of attending are about zero because there is no way I'll be able to convince my parents to pay 40k/year for a private school when they could ship me to gatech for almost free, and we're not going to qualify for any finaid. Maybe I can call the admissions office and get some pity $.</p>

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<p>14500 trustee distinguished! awesome</p>

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<p>14500 Trustee + 8000 (2 years) Century Scholars</p>

<p>Rice is looking more and more appealing by day :D</p>

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<p>14500 Trustee Distinguished and Century Scholars (NMS too, woo!) So potentially $82000 over four years. ballin'.</p>

<p>Is this Century Scholars thing really as exclusive as it sounds?</p>

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<p>Well, the website says it's been in existence for 4 years and there are currently 62 Century Scholars. <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ecentscho/students.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~centscho/students.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>In doing a search on CC, it looks like the Century Scholars program also involves some lunches/dinners for the scholars and faculty, as well as free tickets to cultural and sporting events.</p>

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<p>wait so...if we didn't get any merit aid, do we still have a chance of receiving some from a package that someone else got and rejected?</p>

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<p>Hmm...just out of curiosity, did everyone who lives a long way from texas get this purple sheet saying that "you are a particularly strong match with Rice" and that they'll reimburse airfare for Owl Weekend? I didn't get anything about merit aid which is not cool, but i heard someone on here say they received a merit scholarship weeks after they were notified of acceptance.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I also got the purple sheet. I live in florida.</p>

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<p>Dang, I live in Washington and no purple sheet..</p>

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<p>so are you only eligible for merit scholarships if you apply early or interim?</p>