<p>I think merit notifications may start coming soon, does anyone know fosho?</p>
<p>In Myroc, my son’s status has been changed to step 5 (decision made), but still no any information about merit scholarship in this site. Any one got any updates about scholarship in Myroc?</p>
<p>There is a separate merit scholarship tab in MyRoc, just above the application status tab. My D’s has a scholarship listed in there as of this morning! Rush Rhees $20,000.</p>
<p>There is no such tab in my son’s Myroc account. Looks like he doesn’t get any scholarship. Well, he probabaly will not attend Rochester. It is too expensive for us.</p>
<p>Update, I see this tab now. Son got $13000/per year Xeox Scholarship. So happy!</p>
<p>18,000, Wilder Trustee! I’m assuming this is annual correct?</p>
<p>I got $19,000 for the George Eastman Young Leaders award! I’m still a finalist for the Renaissance and Global scholarship though, I’m really hoping to received the scholarship. Rochester is my top choice and it’s the only way I can afford to go.</p>
<p>I received a $9000 First Team Scholarship.</p>
<p>"FIRST Scholarship
$9,000</p>
<p>Your participation on a FIRST team, combined with your excellent academic record, makes you an ideal addition to campus. The creativity, inventiveness, and drive necessary to succeed on a FIRST team will also help you to succeed at Rochester. As a former FIRST member, we’d like to invite you to share your love of robotics as a volunteer at next year’s Finger Lakes FIRST LEGO League event."</p>
<p>Does this mean I have to participate on the FIRST team in order to receive my scholarship, or is this scholarship guaranteed whether I participate or not?</p>
<p>Scholarship amounts are annual awards, contingent on the student carrying at least 12 credits/semester and maintaining a 2.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Scholarships are for 8 semesters and are not renewable past the original 8 semesters.</p>
<p>RE: FIRST scholarship. Your participation is optional.</p>
<p>I don’t think the specifics on GPA requirements to keep scholarships is always 2.5 - for anyone who gets a scholarship, it should say somewhere in your letter what your requirements are. Congratulations to all of you! :)</p>
<p>My son received an $11,000 Dean’s Scholarship. Glad I checked this forum to see that I had to check the MyRoc account to see this. I’m not sure how many days that has been up there.</p>
<p>JEDad, the student should have received an e-mail telling him that a scholarship was posted to his account.</p>
<p>The website says amounts over $15,000 require the student maintain a 3.0 GPA</p>
<p>Thanks - maybe that e-mail just came today. I will check with him.</p>
<p>DS got $19,000 FIRST Scholarship. Just a little more then the $17,000 he would have gotten as “just” a NMF.</p>
<p>My son received the Eastman award at an increased amount, however, when I put the new merit award into the net price calculator, the total cost was exactly the same. They took money away from other grants when the Merit Award increased. Student loan amount stayed the same (i.e. max), and the cost to our family is the same.</p>
<p>The cost to our family before the increase in Merit Award was about $27K. After doubling the Merit Award (i.e from $7.5K to $14K) the cost for our family is $27K.</p>
<p>The increase in Merit Award did not change our cost.</p>
<p>This is my first child entering college… and I was wondering if anyone knows if colleges stick pretty close to the estimated family contribution that FAFSA reports when you apply? Has anyone found it to be lower or higher? If we are able to meet this amount without loans, etc… will the school make up the difference with financial aid package?</p>
<p>BlueDog123…I will let you know in a week when the complete financial aid package becomes available.</p>
<p>I have an interesting note on the Expected Family Contribution. I have twins so you would expect that the family contribution would be the same for each child. Parents financial information is the same for both children. The only difference is the bank accounts of each child.</p>
<p>The Expected Family Contribution for the child saved money is $15K.</p>
<p>The Expected Family Contribution for the child that spent all his money is $14K.</p>
<p>Moral of the story, your child gets penalized for saving.</p>
<p>I also have twins, but their savings amount is quite close, so their EFC number is the same. I am not sure how that number will equate to what the various colleges will actually award for need based grants, but we should know soon enough.</p>
<p>My kids had about $1500 difference in savings and that is why one had a higher Expected Family Contribution.</p>
<p>When I run the net price calculator on the University of Rochester web site and change the Merit Aid amounts, the total cost for my family stays the same. U of R leaves the student loan amount at the maximum of $5500 and take away other need based grants based on the increase of the merit award. My cost never changes.</p>
<p>Has anyone else observed this? Am I the only one that tried to see the new cost with the increased Merit Award?</p>
<p>Again,my cost did not change.</p>
<p>Yes, that seems to be standard practice at many colleges. Merit awards will often be used to reduce need-based grants you would receive. It works out better for those of us whose scholarships exceed our ‘need’.</p>