<p>Has anyone heard about their trustee scholarship, bell scholarship presidential scholarship ect.
In the email, it said it will be sent with the decisions, but I have not received anything. Just wondering if anyone else did.</p>
<p>nor did I receive any email concerning the scholarship. I’m an intl applicant and get admitted in the regular decision round.</p>
<p>I applied for Trustee and AGB and have not heard anything.</p>
<p>However in my merit letter there is a paragraph stating:</p>
<p>“We also know that you have applied for other BU scholarships. Rest assured that your application will be given every consideration for these merit awards. Final scholarship decisions will be announced no later than April 1.”</p>
<p>So we’ll see what happens. I’m going to call on Monday and find out exactly what’s going on.</p>
<p>Look at other threads and you’ll see people saying they’ve received various scholarships. My daughter got a Presidential. I believe Trustee winners got the word before everyone else. There’s a link to merit scholarship awards right with links to
decision letter and finaid if you received any.</p>
<p>I received a letter stating that I was accepted to the Trustee program</p>
<p>I applied for the bell scholarship.
How did you view your merit letter?</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back on the MLK scholarship? Are MLK and Trustee also listed on the merit awards page or separately? Thanks.</p>
<p>Kgarv,</p>
<p>We are in the same boat, got accepted, Applied for Trustee, and did not get it. We did receive some Grant $, however without substantial scholarship (Presidential, …) BU will be completely unaffordable. </p>
<p>DTRs Stats are 4.0 UW, and 2220 SAT, 33 ACT… are we off base by expecting some Merit $?</p>
<p>4Kids,
It sounds like your daughter is in EXACTLY the same boat as mine. She too had a 2220 SAT, near perfect GPA, applied for Trustee, and didn’t get it. She got grant aid, with the stipulation that they would check to see that we have 2 kids in college, as we reported, and that aid would be reduced, if not. In other words, once our other child graduates/stops college, the grant aid would disappear/be reduced. NO THANKS! In contrast, if she’d been offered merit aid, she would have been guaranteed that aid for 4 years. Seems to me that they are reserving the “scholarships” (other than Trustee) for kids who have no financial need, and leaving out kids with equivalent credentials b/c they can justify giving them grants instead (but again, grants which are not guaranteed in any way).</p>
<p>longg,</p>
<p>This is our first of four, and it is our first time through the process–so far we have been a bit disappointed with what we have received from her favorite schools. We are very proud of our dtr, and she really wanted to go to BU. We thought that she had the stats and background that would have been a great fit for BU, and that she could get some good merit $. I guess we were wrong. It appears that there are many kids that got Merit $ that appear to have lesser stats–I find that to be a bit strange. </p>
<p>We have family in the Boston area, and we feel that BU would have been an excellent fit. Oh well, put it on the list of many that are unaffordable for us. </p>
<p>She applied to a couple of Ivy’s, if she gets in, my guess is that they also may fall on the wrong side of the line. </p>
<p>Thank god we have a financial safety, otherwise we would be in a bit of panic right now. </p>
<p>All the best to those that are happy with what they have received…</p>
<p>^Ivies, outside of Cornell (I have heard parents complain about limited aid) process admissions that are need blind, and they meet 100% of student need.</p>
<p>The financial aid offices operate with a code of ethics. Go to Dartmouth’s financial aid website to see such detail regarding ethics and how they package financial aid.</p>
<p>Good Luck with the Ivy decisions!
Mr. VC</p>
<p>4kids,
Yes, I note many kids who got the presidential scholarship have SAT scores 100-200 points lower than our kids’. Of course, there must be other factors at play beyond test score, but my daughter has some unique and impressive EC’s and is a phenomenal writer… She got a $20K merit award from another private university, and $16K from a public university, but I guess she just doesn’t merit any “merit” at BU for some reason. (The other universities are still a stretch for us financially, but at least the aid is guaranteed for 4 years, if we decide to go with either of them.)</p>
<p>Good luck with the Ivies. We’re waiting on news from them too.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone about the aid. My son has a 2300 SAT 34 ACT and a 4.0 GPA.
He didn’t even get into honors program, and got very little merit scholarship. This was his safety school and no way will we be paying BU prices for 4 years. Don’t think it’s worth it. He’s got a full ride in our state school. Still waiting for some Ivies too. But at this point with today’s economy full ride is the way to go.</p>
<p>Totally agree with what other people said here. BU’s merit aid offer is quite strange: My child has 35 ACT, 2260 SAT, 2 perfect SAT IIs, 4.0GPA, lots of academic honors and ECs. Applied to Trustees, did not apply to need based aids. She did not get Trustees, only got accepted with no Honors (she did write the essay to apply) and no merit scholarship at all. She has full tuition offers from a few other schools, and 2/3 or half tuition merit offers from other schools that give merit aids. She loves the city of Boston and I thought she should be able to at least get a Presidential from BU. I guess I was wrong. It seems to me that if you applied to the Trustees and did not get it, you lost your chance to be considered for other scholarships. Hopefully that’s not the case.</p>
<p>No, you are still considered for other scholarships even if you applied to Trustess and did not get it. This year has been the craziest yet in terms of college acceptances and merit awards. In any other year that I was looking, a lot of your kids would not have been in the group not getting merit. This is not just at BU either. It was a tough year to get money. I think more and more famiies are targetting merit awards as part of college app strategy. I remember the year before actually running into a number of such families for the first time–yeah, I 'd meet one here and there, but this was a bunch. Things are changing in the college admissions so that more families are making merit aid a major component of the process and aggresively and systematically going after these awards. I’m talking about very well to do Wall Street type dads taking this as a business challenge.</p>
<p>Cpt, I tend to agree with you hypothesis on targeting Merit $. </p>
<p>I am still struggling to get my head around why the inconsistency. Perhaps BU thinks that it will be wasting merit $ offers on those that have capability to get into more competitive universities. The sad part is that BU was and is my dtr’s top choice. Sad, sad days in our house.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought. But to me the only explanation that seem to be able to explain why many kids who got the presidential scholarship have SAT scores 100-200 points lower would be: the kids who applied to the Trustee’s and did not get it were late for the Presidential Scholarship consideration compared with those who did not apply.</p>
<p>Cpt and 4Kids, I get what you are saying now. But for families that don’t qualify for need based aids and simply could not afford the full ticket prices at ivies, although their children may have ivy stats, they may have to choose not to apply to them (ivies) but making schools that offer merit aids such as BU their top choices. If these schools push them out simply think they have the choices of going to other more competative schools, that’s too sad.</p>
<p>My son didn’t apply to Trustee scholarship because somehow we didn’t know about it.
He got $10k of Merit scholarship. But with BU price it’s a drop in the bucket. I still don’t understand not being accepted into the Honors program with his stats (he did write the extra essay). If you look at other threads it seems that the same people that are getting all the likely letters from the Ivies are getting all the full rides from schools like BU and NYU and into honors in BC. The sad part is that these kids won’t go to any of these schools. They even say so on the thread. So my question is what happenes with all the money that the school was going to spend on these kids. They’re not going to turn around and offer these scholarships to other students at this point. The same with honors program. A lot of these kids that the school are accepting into it will not be going to BU. Will they reach out to other students for honors acceptance?
Early in the process we decided that it’s only worth going to BU if he gets into Honors program and gets a substantial scholarship. And with his stats I thought that was a strong possibility.</p>
<p>Does BU still require filing for FA to be considered for merit awards aside from Trustees?</p>
<p>I know that ,in the past, those who did not get Trustees were shut out of merit $$ if financial need was non-existent and/or if the student did not file…</p>