Scholarship "mistake" ?!

Paying for College
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<p>My head hurts. After months of being torn between two southern state schools -- A which is slow to award scholarships and B which gave her an almost free ride back in December, my daughter was 99.9% sure she was attending A, particularly after being assured by a member of last year's scholarship committee AND one of the college advisers that she was certain to receive a scholarship that would at least cover tuition, and likely more. (I don't mean a polite "Oh, surely she'll get something" but statements of absolute certainty.) We've done all the registration for orientations and housing and everything else you fork over money for months before classes even start!</p>

<p>Lo and behold, she is getting NOTHING from school A. Zero. Adding insult to injury she has a school friend who did get an academic scholarship, who has an almost identical gpa, significantly fewer extracurricular/leadership activities, and scored 5 points lower on the ACT. The person who was formerly on the scholarship committee says that he believes it must be a mistake, that they are human and somehow she was missed. The adviser has not responded, after three days, to my daughter's email about the situation. Another adviser told us that all funds have been distributed. </p>

<p>What the?? My daughter is more annoyed than devastated, and has shifted gears back to school B. Has this happened to anyone else? Should we just assume that she is not meant to be at school A and move on? Would we sound like the biggest whiners in the world to ask someone (who?) at the college if perhaps there was an oversight. But if there is no money left, then what would be accomplished?</p>

<p>Maybe it just wasn't meant to be..............</p>

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<p>Absolutely ask. Send them a copy of the award from B. Remind them about their statements previously. Remind them of her friend's situation. Tell them how dissappointed you are. Send copies to the FA administrator, and the admissions counselor. Shoot... send it to the President or Dean as well.</p>

<p>College is big business. People who run that business do not like to find out that their sales team just did a major screw-up. You may get some good movement out of them.</p>

<p>What's the worse that could happen? They might give you nothing. Hmmm... that sounds like the same situation you're already in.</p>

<p>I actually had a client that received an offer from a school for over $12,000 per year... then two weeks later was notified he was rejected from admission. Go figure.</p>

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<p>thats a good one. My story is a little different....I got offered 40k but they rejected me from their honors program Again go figure. </p>

<p>I appealed but have to wonder if the tooth fairy is telling me something. I have almost a free ride somewhere else...so I have an option and I'm taking it. </p>

<p>You got to wonder what else they will mess up in your four years given the competance of the FA office at this point. </p>

<p>Again it may be better to jump now. My sister had something like this happen to her when she was a junior. She had a 4.0 both of her soph semesters and her scholarship was not renewed. Same answer you got, Sorry we messed up and all of the money is gone. My dad was not happy...too late to transfer or appeal and he had to pay some big bucks.</p>