<p>Has anyone heard anything about BBA Scholars?</p>
<p>My son was offered 3 scholarships, totalling $17,500 per year: Distinguished Scholar for $7500, School of Engineering for $7500 and Rotunda Scholar for $2500. This really sealed our decision that he will be attending SMU!</p>
<p>My s was accepted to SMU and got letter December 16, 2008. Received BBA Scholar letter December 23, 2008, Distinguished Scholar $7,500 ($30,000) December 30, 2008 and Rotunda Scholar Scholarship $2,500 ($10,000) on January 13, 2009. He has also applied for the Hunt Leadership Scholarship. Does anyone know if BBA scholars receive a scholarship from the business school? And if so when? Any other scholarship information would be helpful.</p>
<p>My S also got BBA Scholar notification, but we haven’t yet received notification about any additional business scholarships. I do think many, although not all, BBA scholars do receive scholarships from the business school eventually. Sambmom- did your S receive anything yet?</p>
<p>We haven’t heard anything yet about a possible BBA scholarship.</p>
<p>Likewise. I applied Regular Decision and got accepted February 21. A week later, February 28, I got notified of being a BBA scholar. Today, I got the 7500/year Distinguished scholarship. I’m also wondering when BBA scholarship grants are awarded…</p>
<p>SMU is a joke. Yeah it’s a good school and has some good programs but it’s not really compeditive; it’s more about coming up with the money to pay for it.</p>
<p>I would say MOST people would choose UT Austin over SMU…SMU does not use the top 10% rule so it’s way easier to get in. You could get in with a 3.4 and thats NO WHERE near UT standstards.</p>
<p>Also everyone I’ve met is a JERK and totally hates UT b/c they probably didn’t get in.</p>
<p>SMU=over rated.</p>
<p>ATX-Your post is totally off-subject for this thread. This is the scholarship thread.</p>
<p>Dude, you are so wrong.</p>
<p>The sad thing about UT is there are a ton (literally thousands) of kiddies who get in solely BECAUSE of the 10% rule that fail out of Texas like crazy. You do not see SMU accepting nearly the same proportion of Soph transfers b/c they did not admit unqualified kids solely on the silly top 10% rule now in effect in the State of Texas.</p>
<p>The unfortunate fact is that there are thousands of kids accepted at Texas each year who cannot do the work at <em>either</em> Texas or SMU. My high school friends who went to SMU had to work 2x harder than I did at Texas and never saw a classroom with more than 50 students. The Frosh seminar courses literally have 100’s if not a thousand students each and the only way you could actually meet with the teacher is to stalk him/her or take them hostage. That is not the case at SMU where teacher access is 10x better than Texas. And get this – I graduated from TEXAS so I know what I talking about. One summer, I attended SMU in Oxford as a visiting student and could not believe the quality of the instruction and teacher interaction. It was unbelievable.</p>
<p>There are no generalizations that can apply to students at either SMU or Texas. I have hired good people out of both school and fired complete pricks from both schools. Both are diverse campuses (UT more diverse) and mass generalizations about the people at each are silly.</p>
<p>Having actually attended both Texas and SMU I can accurately address the differences. ATX seems to have a bug up his arse re: SMU and sometimes ignorant people like this make preposterous statements with no direct knowledge of the facts.</p>
<p>Both are great schools. SMU is smaller and more expensive. Texas is huge and cheaper. It’s really up to the applicant/student to decide what environment they want for these important 4 years.</p>
<p>has anyone heard anything from the Hunt scholarships yet?</p>
<p>The Hunt scholarship letters were sent out a couple of weeks ago. One of my friends at school actually got one. It would have been nice for SMU to let everyone else who wrote an essay and applied to be notified of this…</p>
<p>i got 100k total but i just don’t like SMU</p>
<p>So, then why did you APPLY to SMU? (Or are you a ■■■■■?)</p>
<p>I think its pretty funny listening to those who didn’t get as much money as they thought they would, trash talk SMU. First, you sound ridiculous when you trash talk a school you have spent so much time applying to, scholarship wise too. You obviously thought it was a good school before they didn’t hand you money. Sometimes you have to work for things; shocking. Second, SMU probably doesn’t think they are “Harvard” as someone said before, but they probably had students with more impressive stats that they would rather give their money to. Its called competition, which someone else mentioned. SMU accepts about 50 percent of their applicants as of 2008, and its dropping. Not competitive? Not a good school? All of you who are complaining and saying these kind of things are only embarassing yourselves. If it’s not competitve and not a good school, then you “got a crappy scholarship” from a “bad school”. What does that say about you? </p>
<p>Think before you speak. </p>
<p>Go stangs. PONY UP!</p>
<p>^^^ Ha ha, Kyle555, good one!</p>
<p>To scoff at $7,500/year is ridiculous. As Kyle said, YOU made the choice to apply and there were likely better candidates who warranted more financial aid.</p>
<p>Granted, I went through the application process four years ago now so maybe students feel more entitled now, but I applied to schools because I liked them and was presenting myself to them. I was honored for them to accept me - not the other way around.</p>
<p>Don’t act like SMU is missing out by you passing you up. Luckily for them (perhaps unluckily for you), their applicant pool gets stronger every year and consists of plenty of kids who are both smart AND rich.</p>
<p>I received 3 scholarships from SMU so far. My stats don’t include NMF, but obviously they feel that one test should not be the only measure of a successful student. What I’m seeing in this thread is a bunch of students who feel they are ENTITLED to money. Nothing is more frustrating than hearing people talk like this. Do you think you will be ENTITLED to a job or ENTITLED to a high salary? I hate to break it to you, but life just doesn’t work that way. These responses are a reflection of your maturity level, and many of yall need to grow up.</p>
<p>Woah this thread was started in 2007</p>