<p>To those of you accepted...did you receive info in the financial aid section about merit scholarships or is that mailed at a later date?</p>
<p>It is included in your acceptance online. At the bottom it says “Multiple letters are on file for this account” and hit the new button.</p>
<p>I got admitted… but did not get financial packages on the online app status.</p>
<p>I think I heard that they release other financial things about a week after today.</p>
<p>My D was admitted and had her full FA award including scholarships as another document to open - did you check to see if there were 2 documents to open or a page 2?</p>
<p>hm… i feel like im screwed.</p>
<p>I got my FA package.
I got a $5,-000 Rensselaer Leadership Award. Is this renewable? It doesn’t say.</p>
<p>Overall though, I RPI thought would cough up a little more. I’m still left with about $17,000.</p>
<p>Yes, my son’s had the 15k medalist award (which we had already known about prior to his application) and then it listed some type of loan he could apply for. I was just hoping that other merit based awards had not been listed yet and that he was still in the running.</p>
<p>Well – RPI is a joke…
I thought they met unmet need…and was banking on them as my financial safety and possibly might have considered if I had a free ride or close to a free ride…</p>
<p>In addition to $22,000 is two of their awards (no biggie), they offered me student loans from four separate programs totalling $10,500…in one year-- right, like I want to get $50k after four years in loans…</p>
<p>What are they nuts…? I’ll take my MIT EA decision over this for sure…no way I’ll ’ borrow this type of money for RPI…ROFL!</p>
<p>My EFC is $15K…so this falls really short!</p>
<p>ROFL …</p>
<p>Where did you get the idea that RPI owed you an education or should be “banked on” as a “financial safety?” Just because you were admitted to MIT then RPI is “a joke” if they don’t offer you a free education? You’ve got an awfully strange sense of entitlement. Frankly, if you would only be interested if they gave you a “free ride” then they are better off without you.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, while I’m an RPI alum my daughter is a freshman at MIT. She considered RPI before choosing MIT (which also gave her slightly more aid but that wasn’t the primary reason for her decision). Maybe it was just out of respect for dear old dad, but at no time did she exhibit that type of attitude. She was thankful for all the opportunities offered and then went with her preference without disparaging the others.</p>
<p>Edit: Hwanghee24, Apparently some admitted students don’t get their packages until later. Don’t give up hope. Call the financial aid office next week to see if they have determined your aid status yet.</p>
<p>sorry that came off very badly…i’m just terribly disappointed</p>
<p>Fact is we all know that some schools are reach, match and safeties…I like RPI alot…but reality is it is no where near the caliber of top 5 engineering schools…</p>
<p>The school offers some very prestigious awards and merit packages…and well, trying not to sound too arrogant, but my profile seemed like a good fit for those awards.</p>
<p>Forgetting that-- I have an older sib and lots of cousins in college…no one has ever received a fin aid package with $10k in loans from four separate loan programs-- that’s just crazy!</p>
<p>Good schools typically aim to come close to meeting unmet need, RPI falls very very very short…clearly from reading the threads in previous years, RPI tries to suggest that loans are aid-- they are not aid at all and RPI is a heavy debt loading school </p>
<p>So I’d say RPI is a school for wealthy students!</p>
<p>FYI, MIT also includes loans in aid packages - although not as much as RPI. My daughter was also accepted by Stanford, Yale and several other top 20 schools and, not surprisingly, the mix of aid (excluding one full tuition merit scholarship from a school that wasn’t, upon further review, a good fit) was very well correlated with per capita endowment. That’s the unfortunate reality in a period when many schools have seen significant investment losses.</p>
<p>As for hoping to win one of RPI’s named merit scholarships (such as the Presidential Scholars) I can understand that - that was our hope too. However, the competition is fierce. Despite my being an alum she didn’t win. I’m sure they went to worthy candidates.</p>
<p>@senioritusyep
My EFC is <$2,000, and they’re leaving me with $17,000 to pay. There’s no way I can do that. The only way would be if I lived at home since I live in the area, but I want a residential experience.</p>
<p>And yeah, the competition for merit scholarships is really tough at RPI. They admit the cream of the crop and those like me who get great grades and stuff, but aren’t perfect. The best merit scholarships go to, of course, the top students.</p>