<p>Don't you just HATE it when a college doesn't list information on criteria for its scholarships online!?!</p>
<p>I would completely blow this one off except that it's pretty much perfect for my D: has the major, in location she wants to be in (OOS for us), has great local opportunities for those in her major.</p>
<p>And when you email and ask if their scholarships have changed for the next application cycle or other questions, they give you a generic answer like you just need to complete the application process and see what's available. </p>
<p>UGH! REALLY??!??</p>
<p>Sorry .... needed to just vent and see if anyone else felt the same way!</p>
<p>many schools don’t post the req’ts for their scholarships because they want theflexibility to award to students they want.</p>
<p>Those students might be…</p>
<p>high stats students
good stats URMs
Good stats kids from states that they don’t have many students
males or females to help balance male/female ratio</p>
<p>So posting stats might be too misleading.</p>
<p>The stats required for scholarships may be based on the stats of that year’s applicants, so it may be impossible to say beforehand what exactly the requirements may be. If the prior year’s stats are available, it would be best if your daughter were at least slightly above them, as standards are more likely to rise than fall.</p>
<p>One thing I have found useful is searching for “scholarship” on the school’s cc forum. Many schools will have posts from accepted students listing their stats and any scholarship they were awarded. Helps at least give you an idea of what might be available for a kid with stats similar to your kid’s.</p>
<p>^^^
That can help, but if you don’t know the particulars other than stats, it can still give false hope.</p>
<p>Schools that will award merit to a lower stats student to inprove ethnic, regional, or gender diversity without revealing those details will mislead the “unhooked” student with similar or even better stats into thinking s/he has a chance, when in reality s/he has little/none. A student’s chosen major can also have an influence on awards.</p>
<p>this problem also occurs when Honors College acceptances are not assured for stats. When admissions are competitive, and the webpage says things like, “students accepted into our Honors College have an avg ACT of 32,” then a person might think…"well, I have an ACT 29, so I have a chance because if the “average” is 32, then some have ACT 34-36, and some probably have ACT 28-30. If you don’t know that a desire for diversity (regional, ethnic, gender, and even choice of major) plays into acceptances, you may think that you have a good chance, but you really don’t. </p>
<p>At my kids’ undergrad they have assured admittance into the honors college if you have the req’d stats. Whenever the subject comes up to raise the minimums, it becomes clear that if they did, they would lose a number of URMs, which they don’t want to do. They could go to competitve admissions, but that has issues as well. </p>
<p>their school does have a competitive admissions computer based honors program. so far, from what I can tell, all (or nearly all) of the one’s that were accepted from the waitlist have been females…I’m guessing because they had a gender imbalance. Do some of these females have lower stats than the male applicants? Probably. Or they may have the same stats, but got the nudge for gender diversity.</p>