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spoke to the IU scholarships office, and got referred to a student intern
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Oh good heavens. You don’t talk to someone like that. That person has no power and just parrots whatever the rules are.
YOU HAVE to send an email to the Enrollment Manager. This is likely a person with a title such as: Executive Director of Admissions (or some other high title). These is a high-ranking person and is the one who makes the rules, so he/she is the one who can bend the rules.
Sacha Thieme
Executive Director of Admissions
@chris2 Write up an email to the lady above. If you want, send me a preview copy by PM and I’ll look it over before you send it to her.
Hey man, you’re not alone in being screwed over by IU scholarships. To make a long story short, I was accepted but not with as high scholarships/DA results as I should have. After several calls and emails I realized that someone had read my GPA wrong and written my Junior year GPA instead of cumulative. I tried for weeks, calling and emailing my admissions officers repeatedly trying to resolve what should’ve been a simple error. It took 9 full weeks until it was actually fixed, with very little correspondence on their part. Though they updated my automatic scholarship, by the time they actually corrected my GPA the selective scholarship deadlines had passed (which was important for me, a middle-class individual).
I know it’s not exactly the same situation, but I wanted to commiserate and share my story, because it was very frustrating but worked out in the end. I really, really hope they update your scholarship; it sounds like you definitely deserve it. It’s not fair for you to get a lesser scholarship just because your school gives UW GPA’s. You know, I’d always heard that IU had super nice, helpful admissions officers (and while I’m sure they do) ours certainly haven’t been helpful…
The max Dean’s scholarshipis only 11K (OOS) and i think 8K (IS)- selective scholarship deadlines have passed. It still won’t be anywhere close to the full ride at Purdue.
The student isn’t really looking for IU to match the full ride. He just wants what others with lesser stats have gotten.
He applied awhile ago, so he didn’t miss deadlines. The enrollment manager can do whatever she wants. If she wants to offer him the top award, she can.
a school like IU can easily cough up another five thousand a year…that is nothing.
And according to another thread, the OP did NOT get a full ride to Purdue. He got the Presidential for $8k which is probably a full tuition scholarship.
Please email the person in charge, explain yourself, and let us know how it went.
You have to fight for it…people in admission/FA office are not flawless people. They do make mistake, too, and some of them are NOT regular officers, but student interns who have no power or no experience whatsoever.
Let me give you an example. I applied to U of Richmond last year, but my decision didn’t come out on February. I made sure my counselor sent SAT score, but alas, it turns out the admission office didn’t get it. It must have been buried somewhere, and the admission office thought I hadn’t sent them. I sent my SAT score again immediately, but they said they dind’t get it, so I sent again, and they finally got it. I had to call them 6 in the morning because they woudlnt’ pick up the phone due to high call volume. I had to struggle with this for 2 weeks, and guess what happened:
I got in a waitlist with a letter that basically said: We will consider you only if you have 65k.
Good Heavens, I just discarded that email right away and never replied. Who knows? I would have gotten some merit scholarship if they hadn’t screwed up! Only my sis and I know this. I will never tell my mom…
Go with whichever school you can afford without taking out any student loans.
So I contacted IU with that proposal and got a lengthy reply, but in summary, no dice.
I guess I’ll go to Purdue. A free undergrad degree sounds pretty nice.
That IS a good choice. I am jealous of you.
Good luck in your college education
Congratulations on your decision. Sounds like a great choice.
Another wrench in my decision process - I just got in to the IU Honors College. This makes IU a little more enticing, but it still comes down to the money. Every time I contact IU they point me towards these small $500 scholarships that I can apply for as a sophomore, as well as outside scholarships. But I could do the exact same thing at Purdue, where there are also dozens of little $500 scholarships, and many of those independent outside scholarships can be used at Purdue.
One of the people I spoke to even had the nerve of thinking that since I made it into the Honors College, I must have quite a large scholarship already, and joked that I can’t make my cost of attendance below 0. That’s like giving me a metaphorical middle finger. Four years at IU still costs me $80,000, and I think to myself, with the alternative being a free Purdue, I could do a lot with that kind of money in my pocket.
Still though, I went to visit Purdue, and it honestly wasn’t as impressive as IU. The business school is IU’s crown achievement, while Purdue puts most of its attention on its engineering program. I’m truly thinking to myself that I’m trading a more expensive, but better education at IU, for a free, but somewhat worse education at Purdue.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Everything is helpful.
You can do a lot with $80K.
Invest it, for instance, and grow it.
Kelley does have some special programs (IB workshop and IM workshop, for instance).
However, your success in life will still mostly be up to you. The difference between Kelley and Krannert is fairly small if you aren’t aiming for Wall Street. After you take Investments and invest that $80K, you can probably grow it to a sum that overwhelms the difference.
Indiana is just not worth $80K more than Purdue.
@chris2 Don’t just go off of rankings and prestige. 80K is not worth it, even if it was the best business school in the world. They gave you the ring-around with the scholarship money and they’re trying to get you and your money by giving you the Honors College. Don’t give in!!!
Purdue is a very nice school with strong academics. How can you pass up free?! You can’t. The 80K that IU wishes will be in their pockets will be in YOURS.
Congratulations on Honors College!
Did you get any scholarship for IU? did you check to see if you got a scholarship from the Honors College?
Will that 80k really be in your pocket and if so, how would you invest it?
Would you take a loan for the 20k a year or can your parents pay this out of pocket?
And, yes, sometimes, you can pass up “free” if the alternative is affordable and has better value for you.
In this case, though, I’m not sure IU has better value, although your learning comfort level should increase
drastically from being in the Honors College so that it’s now likely to be equal to Purdue: you don’t seem interested in the IB workshop and I’m still not clear what you like more about IU, ie., how founded your preference is.
(On the other hand, many posters give the advice to “trust your gut”.)
In no way whatsoever is Indiana $80,000 more valuable than Purdue. This is not even close… Maybe if was HYPSM or Wharton, and that’s only MAYBE. Purdue may still be a better deal.
Go to Purdue.
Exactly! I agree with @TheDidactic.
Choose Purdue!