<p>Got Prominence :))) I get to be a buckeye! I feel so blessed. </p>
<p>In case anyone’s wondering, I got notified through an email just before 5pm today.</p>
<p>Got the Prominence!</p>
<p>Just joined this community. My son got the Prominence! We are out of state, so we are estactic! Congrats to Classy19, whateverhappens, and the other winners. This thread has been very helpful. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Go Buckeyes!</p>
<p>My son also got Prominence. Makes OSU now affordable.</p>
<p>What if I didn’t get anything yet? :(</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry if you haven’t heard anything. I know a lot of people who haven’t. In fact, when they were informing people of the excellence back in February, I didn’t get an email until the day after most people did.</p>
<p>really discouraged now… im on a scheduled visit today but i’m really alienated with OSU’s financial aid office… i’d like an email telling me i didn’t recieve anything. but i’ve heard nothing 
i have other schools who were much better at notifying me of aid–which is a huge factor right now!</p>
<p>honestly jausten910, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! They could at least say we didn’t get it! stupid financial aid! i just wanna be a buckeye :(</p>
<p>they havent even released the fafsa packages yet! and i got a postcard and zoodles of emails telling me they would release it “soon.” BOO</p>
<p>How much Prominence amount? My kid got a letter and it did not say how much. She also got into BC. So, if we pay the deposit for accepting this Prominence, can we withdraw later OSU because we do not know how much BC will offer her yet?</p>
<p>Help please. Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Cornell, </p>
<p>The Prominence award is equivalent to out-of-state tuition, which is now $24,759. Here’s what isn’t obviously clear … “Other merit aid may be included in the value of this award.”</p>
<p>The email explicitly states that the prominence award, with the National Buckeye award, equals out-of-state tuition. The academic threshold for the Buckeye is higher than Prominence, so the for some, the amount of the award is $24,759 and for others (who get the Buckeye) it is $14,759. </p>
<p>I don’t know if it they also reduce the amount of the Prominence by the other awards such as the Provost and Maximus. Earlier entries and threads have said you can stack them, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>Nothing is posted on “my” financial aid page, so I’m not sure what we are receiving either.</p>
<p>I hope that helps rather than adding confusion.</p>
<p>Cornell,
The letter should also have said that you have until May 1st to commit. Ours did. Hopefully you can find out before then. You may want to keep in mind the availability of housing, if you are picky about that. </p>
<p>I don’t know if the deposit is refundable or now. </p>
<p>As an aside to the others fretting how long it took to get notified from OSU, it looks like some schools are even slower.</p>
<p>@JohnKS,</p>
<p>Thanks for your answer. Here is the letter.</p>
<p>"
Dear Prominence Scholar:</p>
<p>Congratulations! On behalf of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), I am thrilled to announce that you have been selected to receive its prestigious Morrill Scholars Program Prominence Scholarship.</p>
<p>The Prominence Scholarship, in combination with the National Buckeye scholarship, is the value of in-state tuition (18 hours per semester) and the non-resident surcharge. It is renewable for a maximum of 8 semesters (i.e., four years) of undergraduate study, provided you maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average. Your cumulate grade point average will be evaluated at the end of your second year of study. Further, your scholarship benefits will end, if you complete your bachelor’s degree requirements in fewer than 8 semesters (or the equivalent).</p>
<p>To accept this prestigious scholarship, you are required to pay the University’s acceptance fee by Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Further, if you decide not to attend Ohio State, please reply to this e-mail communication so my staff can consider another student."</p>
<p>We do not mind pay the fee even no refundable. OSU works so hard to help her. My kid really wants to go OSU to release our financial load. She also is accepted by Emory now and Emory offers her pretty good Financial Aid package ( > 30,000). But, we still need to pay around 28,000$. It is a heavy for us to pay for it because I just lost my job recently.</p>
<p>We never go to OSU, we do not know where it is and how it looks like. MY kid chose it for its reputation, sports, and program without other factors consideration.</p>
<p>I just worry if she does not like OSU and changes her mind, she is kind of confusing now. Emory is very good college with high reputation. Also, Emory is closed to home. We had been Emory once. </p>
<p>This is a new issue now. I do not know how to tell my kid, Really. We are working class and we are dependent on paycheck. Help me, please. Please.</p>
<p>cornell
Congratulations to your daughter. Acceptance into Emory and BC is no small accomplishment. </p>
<p>Maybe you and your daughter can spend some time with a high school counselor. He or she may help you make sure you are considering all the factors. Perhaps the schools can help line up phone conversations with students in ther target degree to relate their experiences. Possibly, the high school counselor can help you find someone from her school that goes to/went to OSU/Emory/BC. Unfortunately, when you don’t know the student it is hard to interpret their comments. Finding someone “like” your daughter to relate experiences may help.</p>
<p>There are a couple of threads where you may want to post questions - they are, something like, “ask an OSU senior” and “ask an OSU student.” They are at OSU now and may be able to answer questions important to you and your daughter. Maybe BC and Emory have students on their college confidential forums also. </p>
<p>The money part is easy to see and rationalize. Some kids are graduating with a lot of college loans, and more expensive definitely doesn’t mean better. Emory and BC are great schools (I thought about going to BC myself), but may not be great for your daughter. </p>
<p>Whether you will “like” the school, that’s another point. </p>
<p>OSU is about 6x the size of BC and Emory, and is very different by reputation. Have you visited a big state university? It may give you an idea of the feel. However, I will say that OSU is a very pretty campus (ranked #15), the rooms and libraries are very up to date and the new student union is gorgeous. Can’t speak to the dorm rooms, but they are refurbishing a lot of them. The only campus I’ve seen that rivals it is WashU in St. Louis.</p>
<p>I’m guessing your daughter is in the Honors program. My understanding is that there is a little bit of a subculture for Honors. So that is something to think about. It might provide some intellectual culture she would get at BC or Emory, being more selective schools. </p>
<p>I can also offer that, having grown up in Texas, spent years working in Atlanta, and now living in the midwest for a decade, I think anyone comfortable with the south would be OK in the midwest. </p>
<p>Good luck. My opinion - don’t worry making sure you pick the “best” school, because you will never know whether or not you did. Just make sure the school is one she will enjoy, has a good reputation in her degree, prepares her for the next phase (job or grad school), and won’t break the bank.</p>
<p>Thanks JohnKS. I did not get my D’s consent and discuss about her stuff in the public, so I will PE to you and give you more info.</p>
<p>Thanks, thanks a whole lot. :)</p>
<p>S received email about receiving distinction but it’s not listed on the financial aid page of BuckeyeLink. Does anybody else see it? We want to know because he also received Maximus previously but we’re not sure if it was removed due to his receiving distinction.</p>
<p>I still havent recieved a email. Could it be because on my osu account it said that my mail was going to @osu instead of my real email. I just changed it to go to my real email address as I didnt set up an @osu.edu address. Should I call them and ask them to resend my decision letter about the morril?</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten anything yet either. Maybe decisions are sent out in batches… and there will be more emails next week.</p>
<p>CoffeeCookies - We don’t see anything either. The earlier scholarships were never posted, so I can’t speak to seeing them go away. </p>
<p>BigBoy - I would. I spoke with their tech support people earlier on shared passwords across their different systems. The bottom line - they won’t know you changed the email unless you tell them. You might try to get into the @osu.edu - but it was a struggle for us. </p>
<p>2100549 - I think you should call/email tomorrow. I hadn’t heard they were doing batches, and I’ve never seen anything to say they send a “no” answer.</p>
<p>JohnKS, have you gotten your financial aid email yet. I haven’t and am thinking maybe they sent it to the @osu email that does not seem to exist in my case.</p>
<p>I know I haven’t gotten my financial aid email yet and no one on the class of '16 page fb page has gotten one, either. So I’m assuming they aren’t out yet.</p>