<p>So I heard IU is totally changing their Scholarships... anyone know what is going on?
All I have heard is that it will be "holistic" and not just "this GPA & ACT" score anymore.</p>
<p>Scholarship office said info would be released in July</p>
<p>Scholarship changes are posted although I have to say… dont see big changes.
*up to $6k for in-state
*up to $11k for out of state</p>
<p>Maybe the application process will be different ~ ie: not automatic based on GPA and ACT/SAT scores ( 32 ACT and 3.8 GPA)</p>
<p>The cuts look pretty drastic. Not much info on them, which sucks from a marketing standpoint compared to the clearly defined criteria for the old automatic scholarships. Not even called automatic scholarships anymore. Eligibility criteria is vague and money way less for instate. Seems like it will make IU less attractive to in-state students. The maximum in-state is only six thousand. Wonder what gpa/standardized test scores it would take to get the maximums. This will probably dampen a lot of the buzz that the old automatic scholarships generated for in-state and OOS prospective IU students. Kelley, especially, needs the suburban Chicago kids to keep progressing.</p>
<p>[IU</a> Achievement Scholarships: Office of Scholarships: Indiana University Bloomington](<a href=“http://scholarships.indiana.edu/IUAchievementScholarship.php]IU”>http://scholarships.indiana.edu/IUAchievementScholarship.php)</p>
<p>Impression I got from the scholarship office is they wanted to make the award process more subjective. Seems like a lot more work.</p>
<p>That’s a big cut for in-state kids. Even when Purdue cut back on their scholarships a couple years ago, they still left the bigger money out there for the high achieving students. IU is running the risk of not attracting well qualified students who can likely get better offers elsewhere. My high school senior has always wanted to go to IU and she still will apply, but she has already decided to look at other schools as well. It is very disappointing, because her SAT and gpa are both much higher than what the minimum $9000 criteria were for this year.</p>
<p>Right - it’s a big difference. It went from an automatic $9,000 per year for top stats to a shot at “maybe” up to $6,000. That takes it out of the “financial safety” category for us.</p>
<p>Not that it is relevant anymore, but does anyone recall what the OOS merit amount was last year? Thanks.</p>
<p>There were two ranges based on grades and test scores. The higher range was $11,000 and I think the lower might have been $6,000</p>
<p>I have to say… $11k for OOS is not that exciting… just keeps it in line w/ U of I.</p>
<p>ldavis, somehow I think that is exactly the point of the $11K OOS scholarship, and why they didn’t change the OOS $ amount - to keep IU OOS price in line with U of I in-state price :)</p>
<p>^^^exactly. That is the point. Although, it sounds like some/many(?) OOS students will be getting less than the full amount, which could tip the scales for some families towards UIUC.</p>
<p>IU did a survey last year or so and U of I came out as IU’s third biggest competition behind Purdue and Ball State. Illinois residents are about twelve percent of each entering class, and I think drawing Illinois students from U of I is even more significant in terms of the quality of students that come to IU, as so many are high achievers from affluent suburbs, something you don’t have a lot of in Indiana. So I am guessing that there won’t be a lot of cutbacks for OOS students in the number OSS scholarships and the amounts of the awards. IU said on the admissions website that they would get back to the admitted student with the scholarship amount in two or three weeks after acceptance, but that is still kind of a weak approach compared to everyone knowing in advance exactly what they would get before even applying to IU. </p>
<p>I’m guessing too that standardized test scores will increase in importance over gpa in terms of getting the biggest awards, as it is a lot easier to get a high gpa than a high SAT/ACT score. IU will still want to look competitive with other Big Ten schools in standardized test scores, and those went way up with the advent of the old automatic scholarships in 2007 I think, and a lot of that came from Illinois students and other OOS students. </p>
<p>Indiana kids are getting shafted here with the new scholarship, but I don’t think the legislature will be able to do anything about it, since they fund less and less of IU’s budget each year anyway. </p>
<p>Here are some reports from the Office of Enrollment Management, which probably has a lot of input in the scholarships.</p>
<p><a href=“http://oem.indiana.edu/doc/pdf/OEM%202012%20Annual%20Report.pdf[/url]”>http://oem.indiana.edu/doc/pdf/OEM%202012%20Annual%20Report.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://oem.indiana.edu/doc/pdf/AACRAO%20041713-rev040913.pdf[/url]”>http://oem.indiana.edu/doc/pdf/AACRAO%20041713-rev040913.pdf</a></p>
<p>I am OOS and I greatly appreciate how much merit aid IU gave me. If I had not received that amount in scholarships I would never have been able to attend IU. I have stated it before it is cheaper for me to go to school in IU than a comparable school in California. I am also very fortunate that I am being grandfathered in under the old scholarship amounts.</p>
<p>Following up on bthomp1’s response. </p>
<p>I don’t think the scholarship funds necessarily come from legislative money. I’ve never been able to find out the source of those funds. None the less, the state keeps giving IU less and less so something has to give somewhere. </p>
<p>My own “theory” of this dramatic change has to do with declining state and federal funding. By giving the top admits less automatically, in theory they may be eligible for more state and federal financial aid. This lower amount for instate kids forces the state to kick in more (maybe) to make up the difference if a student is eligible for financial aid. Same idea would apply to OOS admits although I suspect far fewer OOS admits are eligible for federal financial aid and certainly not eligible for state aid. </p>
<p>It does irritate me that state kids are getting the short end of the stick here. That $9000 scholarship plus a few more other scholarships allowed one of my kids to graduate debt free and will likely allow the other to do the same. It’s also the difference between going to IUB and going to one of the other campuses.</p>
<p>Frankly, I was always amazed at the generosity of IU towards IS and OOS students, especially given the opposite characteristic shown by UIUC. It appears that the financial issues that have plagued higher public education in Illinois have now caught up at IU as well, although not to the same degree. The fact that IU still gives these scholarships at all puts Indiana ahead of Illinois, where they are pretty much non-existent.</p>
<p>I will be forever thankful that my son attended while it was still affordable for us, as he received a first-class education at IU. Back in 2007, I am not sure if we would have chosen IU if it had been appreciably more expensive than UIUC. Now, with the costs of both schools even higher, I am glad we don’t have to face the decision at all.</p>