<p>I got a letter in the mail today saying I was awarded this scholarship and I was wondering if anyone knows if I can use this on whatever I want or if it HAS to be applied to tuition? (ie can I use it for room and board and books instead of tuition and fees?)</p>
<p>the reason I ask this is bc my mom's work has an incentive program that pays back half the cost of tuition for me, so itd be a lot better for me if i could use the 15k from cu boulder to pay for room and board and junk and then still get the 15k back from my moms work...actually makes cu cheaper than the in-state school i applied to haha</p>
<p>I do not think you can use it for room and board. You do not even get access to the money…The scholarship is just reflected in your tuition bill and the bill is adjusted accordingly.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the Presidential Scholarship! My son last year had a 4.0 unweighted, 4.22 weighted, with ACT of 31 and he only got offered the Chancellors Scholarship…Lucky you…</p>
<p>…sorry? i have plenty of extra cirriculars my recommendations were killer from my ap lit teacher and spanish teacher who i had for 3 years and travelled to spain with this past summer (im majoring in spanish in college) and had my essay edited by everyone ive ever met and i have 9 ap credits including 5 in my senior year along with plenty of honors courses and im an ap scholar with honor or distinction…cant remember…
that just felt like a dig at me…figured i should at least try to prove myself…</p>
<p>I am sorry, it was not a dig…I meant no disrepect. I really did mean Congratulations. It is just that the scholarships are only based on GPA and standardized test scores, not on anything else. Recommendations, extracurriculars, have nothing to do with it. And my son had those things too, but it did not make a difference either.I was told by the scholarship people that they only look at standardized test scores and GPA, and each year it is different depending on who applies that year. My point was that I felt my son should have received the Presidential based on his stats, since they are the same as yours. I kinda wish he was applying this year!
Enjoy CU if you decide to attend…He is there now, and loving it…Having a lot of fun and being exposed to a lot of great things in his major, of aerospace engineering. And doing wonderfully academically!</p>
<p>sorry if i read too far into your post rousse…cu is at the top of my list right now, but hte one thing i cant quite get over is the distance…from my house, its a 28 hour drive to boulder. thats terrifying to me. esp when i have my brother at umcp (who im very close w) just an hour down the road…has your son felt bogged down with work at all? or has it been easy for him to balance the work with play? (altho his major seems like it would be a lot more intense than mine…lol)</p>
<p>My son seems to be able to balance the work with the play very well. He was a very good student in high school, (class rank 10/505) so he knows how to study and prepare for class. He seems to have a system that works for him, does his work during the week mainly in the library, and studies on the weekends when he needs to, like if he is having an exam or midterm or final. But I think most weekends he reserves for play… He has done a ton of stuff there this past semester: played on two intramural sports teams with some of his dorm mates, joined the ski club and gone snowboarding, hiked up to 14,000 feet with his dorm mates, and pledged to a professional engineering fraternity. He is also a season ticket holder for the football and basketball games.
We are from California so he is not close to home either…He came home for the Thanksgiving break (one week which is really nice) and I went to visit him in October for Family Weekend. Then he was just home for Christmas for three weeks. He wanted to go away from home, so it was his choice. Got admitted to UCLA which is no easy feat but chose to go to Colorado instead to be away and also because we all felt like it was a better place to be for his major.<br>
You will have to decide if being too far away from home will bother you. There are a lot of out of state students at CU so you would be in good company. Your brother could always come visit you at school. I know when I was in college I wanted to be away from home, but each person is different and only you can know what is right for you. Good luck on your decision.Feel free to ask me any more questions if you like.</p>