@Remarkk I don’t blame you. I was reminded that the regular deadline for AP test registration is today. SMH
If your D scores 4-5 on AP, they will issue the credit for that class. This is where
My son (an instate student) has been accepted to several competitive engineering programs where he received merit scholarship. Only two - Rutgers and Penn State - have decided to sock it to him with zero aid. Fortunately, if he chooses Rutgers, we’ll be able to cover it.
Congratulations! I don’t know which schools offered your son scholarships but it definitely gives you more options.
It’s possible that scholarship rewards for SOE are up this year due to the $10M recently donated by Richard Weeks specifically for engineering scholarships. My son is graduating from SOE this spring and it’s been a great 4 years. On a side note my daughter received no merit from SAS. She had a 1490 SAT and a 5.03 GPA, Team captain, Service, EC’s. Disappointing to say the least.
Im disgusted with Rutgers.My daughter worked so hard in high school even a small amount of merit money would have meant alot to our instate working class family as we dont qualify for any low income aid.
Rutgers ,the school that paid Snookie $32,000 to speak a few years back
@remarkk you nailed it! ??
Did anyone not get their award yet?
@Ctaub01 - with $20K in merit aid, your cost of attendance outside of books and spending money should be more like $8,000, correct? Isn’t Tuition, room and board around $28,000?
My son got $10K for SAS and $13K for SOE. It does appear that the merit aid has gone down in the past few years or their criteria have changed. My son has pretty good credentials - 1590 SAT, 4.6+ GPA. My older son with similar stats received the $25K Presidential Scholarship a few years ago. Did they get rid of that scholarship?
They still have the Presidential Scholarship. Full Ride ( approx: $28,000 ) minus expenses. My read is there were $3,500, $10,000, $15,000 and Full Ride Merit Scholarships. My guess is Need maybe was factored into the equation as part of some Holistic approach in determining who gets what. Let’s face it once the SAT and ACT stats gets above 1500/34 the kids are all in the top 1% ish. Then you have GPA and other variables like difficulty of course load. Not an easy task to dole out such differences in merit when all are so equally deserving for the most part.
We have this society built on Kings and Queens.
IMO the Merit should be averaged around say $15,000 to reward most all most fairly.
Still anyone receiving Merit aid and accepted into the Honors School should be very happy given all the perks of the Honors School.
Be Happy
Agreed. Not looking for the whole pot, but at least acknowledge some who obtained maybe 4.0+ GPA averages taking difficult HS course loads with APs, Honors, and dual enrollment. Heck, my son received an OOS $10k/yr scholarship from Buffalo which was overly generous for a NYS school. We would have been happy to have received $1500-3500 from Rutgers. We know the state isn’t going to consider us for any TAG or other supplemental aid. Even NJIT offered him $6k/yr. ?
Yes I do agree with you and feel similarly on merit amounts and their distributions. I find it interesting how divided things are. Curious how many applicants were encouraged to apply to several schools. I still don’t get the factoring in this pick a school merit reward based scenario.
So the kid who wants to get into the school of Mason Gross is encouraged to apply to as many other schools as they wish such as engineering etc and might be offered more in merit at the alternative schools say for instance to the Engineering College.
How does Rutgers decide to allocate merit resources among it’s many schools when a promise amount for each school is offered out to where in the end each student can make only one choice. Sometimes making that one choice feel somewhat less than desirable given the at times lower aid amount.
I get the need to vary the merit. Both between recipients and school programs. Competitive forces are in play.
Yet is Rutgers losing a larger base of nearly equally qualified candidates by trying to pry away a few Ivy League Students from top schools with big numbers. I believe Rutgers could create a much stronger student body foundation by offering an average merit award that is more closely distributed around a base such as $15,000.
Equalizing the numbers somewhat and creating a reward system that is much more palatable to all recipients.
I know it’s a complicated system to reward through merit and I realize my suggestion is simplistic. However I don’t see how this system fairly and efficiently addresses unmet needs most fairly.
I got $28k which covers $17k tuition, room and board And around $11k for housing and food. I still have to pay for transportation and books though, which is an estimated $7k. So the cost of attendance is around $36k
Does anyone know all the merit scholarship including presidential scholarships are out already? There is nothing else pending when it comes to scholarship? We didn’t get any financial aid. Just wondering…
Yeah I thought tuition was 28k, for some reason on the bottom of the page it says cost of attendance 15k. I think they factored in optional book and spending costs. The top does say 28k mandatory fees, so yesh I guess total cost of attendance would only be $8k
@Fire227 ^
please share your Stats