<p>What exactly do they mean by “Initial Offer”? Is this the final final say? I, too, am not very happy with the package I received.</p>
<p>I spoke with a financial aid officer at the Honors College open house for admitted students. In essence, an Initial Offer is just that. After a student commits they will possibly go back into the pool for aid from those who got offers of $ and didn’t matriculate to Rutgers.</p>
<p>My son received an additional offer after the initial one.</p>
<p>@polkadotma369</p>
<p>Do you think there is a big difference between the Honors College Open House and the Admitted Students Open House held next month? I’m not sure if I should go to one or to both.</p>
<p>So. I come home today, all bummed about the financial aid (Rutgers is the only school I’ve heard from so far about financial aid) and there was a small envelope waiting for me. I thought it was for some random thing, but instead it’s a letter notifying me that I received the James Carr scholarship for 10k a year (40k total). </p>
<p>I don’t know how I got it though! My stats weren’t amazing and I submitted my application WAY late (think February 1st late) and didn’t submit my SRAR until a few weeks ago because my guidance counselor told me the official transcript is enough.</p>
<p>@mamajay Would you like to share your son’s stats? If possible. And if you could tell us what he received on his initial? Thank you!!</p>
<p>@jy2680 What were your stats? I guess this gives hope to some people.</p>
<p>Maybe Rutgers anticipated a high enrollment but has not come close their expectations?
Thank you guys and gals of CC</p>
<p>mamajay, that is terrific. jy2680— great news, you can relax. That’s a hefty bit off the bill. I think Rutgers is absolutely unpredictable, but it demonstrates a certain fluidity (in a good way).</p>
<p>@skittle: D attended both the regular Scarlet Day and the Honors College Open house (think that included prospectives for HC). They were different. Regular tour included a bus tour (including a sample dorm room) but we didn’t see Honors college preferred housing on either visit. Regular one included a bus tour of the campuses. HC was more like info sessions geared specifically to HC. A bit more academic oriented and longer. Panel of profs answering ?s. 2 student panels—1 for parents (sep room) and 1 for the kids. Light breakfast and lunch included.
Rutgers runs different types of tours. There are ones that are also specific to major.
<a href=“http://admissions.rutgers.edu/tours/110101A-nb.aspx[/url]”>http://admissions.rutgers.edu/tours/110101A-nb.aspx</a> (click on Scarlet Day Plus)
There’s a good chance that we may opt in for the admitted students OH coming up. D would like to see the pref housing dorms. We will contact Rutgers first to avoid duplication of time since we may need to visit/revisit other schools to make a decision. Rutgers HC is clearly in the running. I was amazed because D’s HS seems to have tailored their programming right off Rutgers so D’s ECs tail right in. The expected incoming HC freshman class total only roughly 300 (we did ask). That’s small within the large pool.</p>
<p>Originally (back in January) my son ( top 1% of class 1490/2210 SAT) was awarded the Presidential Scholarship (23K) for Engineering and Arts and Sciences and nothing for the Business School. A couple of weeks ago a letter came stating that he was eligible for the Presidential Scholarship for all 3 schools (including Business). I emailed admissions to double check and they confirmed this was true.</p>
<p>The only caveat with these scholarships is that they are not necessarily transferable from one program to another - that is up to the dean of that particular school. </p>
<p>Also for anyone considering Rutgers Honors I would strongly recommend going to the Honors College Open House. It really swayed my son’s opinion of the school in a positive direction.</p>
<p>Like I said, my stats weren’t amazing, but I guess I have some ECs that made up for it. </p>
<p>SAT: 2020 (2050 superscore)
GPA: 3.8 unweighted
Top 5% of class</p>
<p>I’m also the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor and Design Editor of the school newspaper as well as the President of our school’s chapter of NHS and NFHS. I took an undergraduate course at Yale in my junior year (didn’t do too well in it, but it was a nice, and somewhat daunting, experience) and am currently taking 5 APs. I’ve won small awards for debate and newspaper and have had art exhibited and sold at a local art studio. There are other things that I listed on my application – clubs, summer programs – but I won’t take up any more space here with them. I grew up in three entirely different countries and speak Chinese, Dutch and English and my essay focused on how that affected who I am and what I want to do and achieve through college.</p>
<p>@mamajay @jy2680 Thank you! The only problem is you guys have stats and EC’s that deserve the extra money. Haha. I was hoping you guys had bad EC’s like me to raise my hopes. Thank you!</p>
<p>Do you think its true that if you got a combined higher than 1400 on SATs you were kind of qualified for the 10k per year scholarship? Thanks again everyone</p>
<p>All you guys that got scholarships should not be ****ing complaining about it being too low. I have 2150 SATs, and a 4.1 GPA, and I got absolutely nothing at all. Nothing at all.</p>
<p>I think the scholarships vary significantly by college, so that piece of information would be helpful to compare. I have seen people post stats far lower than my daughter’s (2180/4.3-4.5 weighted), but they were for Arts & Science. She got $3500 for SEBS and hopes to get another $1000 for Honors. (SEBS Honors interviews are next week).</p>
<p>I got 10k a year for SAS, but only 3.5k a year for pharmacy 
It’s rather disappointing compared to the other offers I received from other schools…well, at least I know I for sure that I’m not going there…</p>
<p>I just realized until post #71, this is last year’s scholarship thread!</p>
<p>i agree with mamajay, i went to the Honors Scholar’s Day earlier this month and it gave me a really good impression of the honors program. </p>
<p>as for merit scholarships, it seems that this year it’s much harder to receive money compared to two years ago, when my brother applied. probably a result of issues in new jersey’s economy and the growing number of applicants every year. and i think the amount you’re offered is going to be different between colleges, depending on which college is more competitive, etc, you know?</p>