<p>Has anybody who has been accepted for the fall 2008 term, heard anything about merit scholarships yet?</p>
<p>Have you been accepted yet?</p>
<p>Yes, accepted but not offered any merit $. I called and was told that when they recalculated the GPA it was probably just out of the running, although my SAT's are high and I am a Natl Merit Commended and also have a weighted GPA just over 4.0. Oh well...</p>
<p>Ummm I got accepted for Fall '08 and they gave me something called the Dean's Scholarship - I think it's a renewable $10,500/yr scholarship. Not sure if this is what you meant my merit...</p>
<p>Hey need2learn, I am currently a freshman right now and my merit aid was strange last year. </p>
<p>First of all, the school-sponsored merit aid is based ONLY on unweighted core GPA. SAT scores, nat'l merit status, and weighted GPA are not even looked at when regarding this scholarship. Your core GPA is 16 classes: 4 english, 3 math, 3 lab science, 2 foreign language, 3 history, 1 fine art (I believe, I may be wrong though). And it does not matter if it is honors or not, unweighted only. </p>
<p>Second of all, last year, when I was first accepted, I did not receive any money. I called them and they said my UW core GPA was not high enough for any scholarships. However, after my first semester grades were up, I got all A's except for one B, so my GPA went up a bit, so I sent in my transcript again. A week later, I got the provost's Scholarship worth 6500 per year...not too shabby for having nothing the semester before. </p>
<p>So, moral is, don't fret, up your grades a bit, send in your transcript again, and see what happens. </p>
<p>Also, might be a good idea to submit an ASU general scholarship application, and if you are in a school (like the business school, or liberal arts a sciences), send in their general application. I worked for about 20 minutes on one of those applications and got $2500 out of it. </p>
<p>Everything will be ok! Don't worry!</p>
<p>christalena2, you have been very helpful with ASU information. My son is a high school senior and have applied to ASU. Where can he find the scholarship application since he is applying to the Supply Chain Management major? Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>thanks!
I'm a Supply Chain major as well...good choice!</p>
<p>Here's the Business Scholarship Links:
Scholarship</a> Applications - Undergraduate Programs - W. P. Carey School of Business</p>
<p>and the ASU general scholarship is here:
<a href="https://javaprod.uui.asu.edu/SFAO_GeneralScholarshipApplication/%5B/url%5D">https://javaprod.uui.asu.edu/SFAO_GeneralScholarshipApplication/</a></p>
<p>General Financial Aid info:
Student</a> Financial Assistance</p>
<p>On another note, having the supply chain major has been awesome! During welcome week activities, the business school splits up everyone in attendance by major, and so I went to a small room with my mom to learn about the major...and I was the only one. The only one! So I got to personally meet the chair of the department, two professors, and the president of SCMA at ASU. It was great! And usually they split up advisors by major, so my advisor handles far less students and can give much more individual attention...a great asset at such a large school.</p>
<p>The difference between the Provost's Scholarship (2nd best for instate besides national merit) and the President's Scholarship (best for instate besides national merit) is SAT scores. They will look at your ABOR GPA first to determine whether you are eligible for a scholarship, but if you also have a high SAT score (I got a 1390/1600 and received the President's) then you may get the President's instead.</p>
<p>I agree that the W.P. Carey School of Business has been good, but I would say the Carey Academy/Business Honors advantages are huge. Definitely apply to the honors college, it's a great opportunity, not much extra work, you get to meet most of the future top students at ASU, and the classes available through it are much better than normal ASU classes (I had 25 people in my psychology 101 class this semester and it was taught by a practicing professional rather than a few hundred people in the class and taught by a potentially substandard professor).</p>
<p>ASU is a mixed bag, but if you make the right choices and seek out the best opportunities, I think it is very worthwhile.</p>
<p>^ agreed. I might have been wrong about the ABOR GPA thing, but I know it played a part. </p>
<p>The Carey Academy is awesome! I probably know you lol. </p>
<p>Although I took psych 101 this semester in a 250 person lecture hall and thought it was a great class. Great professor. I learned a lot.</p>
<p>Interesting about the heavy use of GPA but not test scores. Do you guys happen to know the GPA cutoffs for merit aid consideration? My son should be able to get National Merit, but it would be worth knowing if other merit aid might be available as a backup. He has very high SATs but only about 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>I know that my ABOR GPA was around a 3.4 (my UW GPA according to my school was a 3.6, Weighted was about 4.2). But it all depends on the ABOR GPA to be even considered. Maybe call the school and ask directly.</p>
<p>Thanks Christalena2 - you're really helpful! I emailed admissions asking to reconsider me for merit $ since my Nov SAT's went up 100 points and are now in the top 1% nationally. Hopefully that will happen...if not Tulane and Indiana gave me $$ but I really like the Cronkite School!</p>
<p>Thanks Christalena - glad your tenacity paid off!</p>
<p>I also had a fairly average ABOR GPA, it was about 3.47.</p>