<p>This year will be less merit scholarships than years before, about a 60% less in merit money.</p>
<p>I thought they expanded each full merit scholarship from 3 recipients to 4, but shinked the pool for half-tuition scholarship recipients.</p>
<p>Oh well, so you may be right then. Where'd you hear this?</p>
<p>They cut more than 20 half tuition merit scholarships! Now most are a few thousands.</p>
<p>newhere: Curious what you base your post on. If it is anything like many of your previous posts - you don't seem to have any legitimate sources to back up your statements. Which merit awards are they supposedly cutting? Also which half tuition merit scholarships have been reduced to a few thousand dollars? In the past I have had fairly reliable info in this area and at this time it is the opposite of what you are posting.</p>
<p>ST2, she is right! You can check on their web site. Engineering has reduced the merit scholarships from 32 to 10, and they got rid of the merit scholarships for St. Louis students. ( 28 half tuition merit scholarships got down to only 8)</p>
<p>If that is the case, should someone go through the process of applying for one if their chances are at best, 50/50? Would admin give someone who submitted a scholarship app a second "look" if they were on the fence? The scholarship apps are quite involved. Thoughts?</p>
<p>50/50 wold be a pretty good chance for WUSTL merit scholarship...</p>
<p>I think she meant if her chances for admission were 50/50, would applying for a scholarship nudge her into the admit side.</p>
<p>I don't think applying for a scholarship has any effect on admissions chances (although, I guess, it could "demonstrate interest").</p>
<p>i think applying for scholarships is one of their best ways to guage interest. if you are seriously wanting to go there, then why wouldn't yu apply for scholarships? I know a friend who was very qualified, and she applied fo WUSTL but didn't really care about going there, so she didn't apply for any scholarships. she got waitlisted. it obviously was not her stats. She thinks WUSTL kinda knew she didn't really care to go there anyway,, and I think they knew becuase she didn't apply for scholarships. WUSTL doesn't want to ruin their yield rate for USNews. it does seem suspicious that a extremely qualified applicant not bother aplying for scholarships</p>
<p>^this is all just assumptions...</p>
<p>ST2, I based my post on WUSTL information, you could look at it because it seems you don’t have reliable sources anymore.</p>
<p>What WashU info would that be. I guess the administration people don't have a good feel for what is going on at WashU. By the way on another posts - the question was about sororities (social) not profesional. So yes, based on many of your past posts, I don't put a lot of credence into your posts. Would you care to specify which WashU info you are basing your post on.</p>
<p>Based on the past question "does applying for scholarships increase an applicants chances of admission?" I would like to know if it is worth the time to apply for a merit scholarship if one was deferred admission in the early decision pool? Would they really give a scholarship to someone they thought was not qualified enough to be admitted early?</p>
<p>Check the WUSTL website, ST2. Engineering, in the past (until class of 2011) had 28 half-tuition scholarships and 4 full tuition plus lesser amounts, look what they offer now.
I don’t know why every time somebody says something you feel it’s against WUSTL you get mad, we have to go with the truth, WUSTL is a nice school but not perfect. If you embellished the college someone or many could become disappointed finding out things aren’t the way you told them.</p>
<p>Maybe they don’t need that many scholarships to attract good students or maybe more wealthy kids are applying to Wash U.</p>
<p>update: I called admissions and they said merit scholarships would NOT affect admissions at WUSTL. b/c merit scholarships are judged by faculty and is a separate process from admissions.</p>
<p>xtra: HaHa.... I'm definitely losing it....from your post, it made me think of something ridiculous....If the scholarships are "separate and judged by faculty", one could be nominated for one by faculty even if not admitted to the school (or waitlisted as so many very high stats people are)....LOL...I wonder how many times that has happened.....hmmmmm...I'm not really serious so please don't respond: just amusing myself....</p>
<p>newwhere - I don't get mad - I just don't like general statements not based on fact. While the number of engineering scholarships may have been reduced, the total number of scholarships awarded has not been reduced. Your initial post was "This year will be less merit scholarships than years before, about a 60% less in merit money." Had you specified "engineering", I would have agreed - but instead you made it seem like overall merit scholarships were down by 60% - a statement that is absolutely false. So if you did not generalize with your posts with misleading statement - I would not have a problem.</p>
<p>I think newhere says the total amount of scholarship money got reduced, maybe there is more fin aid and less merit money. Engineering is the only school that used to offer 32 merit full and half tuition scholarships (Olin offers only one and the other schools less than ten), cutting that, in my opinion, it is not a good idea.</p>