<p>can somebody please tell me why my roomate and I are part of the 2% who will not receive any sort of scholarship to Case Western?</p>
<p>My Gpa: 3.7
SAT:2250
ACT:33</p>
<p>leadership, research, siemens westinghouse, varsity track</p>
<p>His GPA: 3.5
ACT: 34
model un, varsity tennis, research</p>
<p>hmm i think what got me some scholarship money was that i had a lot of extracurriculars and tons of leadership- that was by far my strongest point. my SAT scores were a little lower than yours (2180) and my GPA was about the same, but i got the presidents scholarship of $21,800 per year.... it's hard to say what theyre looking for.</p>
<p>Where are you from? Ethnicity? Background/diversity might play into it. </p>
<p>What was your curriculum? Most challenging offered? Did you have a lot of honors/APs? Are those weighted GPAs or unweighted? You GPA alone isn't very telling about your academic record.</p>
<p>from all those i have talked to at case (students), i hear scholarships are solely based on sats and acts, which is why your case seems so odd...but maybe the people i talked to really have no idea. could you possibly appeal that decision?</p>
<p>yeah, thats what im wondering. does it have anything to do with fafsa?</p>
<p>Scholarships are not just based on SAT scores - or else I'd have one too. I honestly can't see why I didn't get one either. But I'm done with Case. I think I might go to RPI instead. They offered me good money and it's a better school for engineering. Or I might go to Northeastern. They offered me good money too and I really like downtown Boston! WAY better than Cleveland, and better girls too.</p>
<p>if you believe you should have gotten a scholarship, make a scholarship appeal</p>
<p>my friend (who has a 2300+ SAT) received an acceptance letter with no scholarship, so he made an appeal. he just told me he has the the trustee's scholarship now.</p>
<p>The FAFSA shouldn't have anything to do with it - EA acceptees at least, got scholarship letters with their acceptances back in December.
Make an appeal - can't hurt at least</p>
<p>i don't think the scholarship has anything to do w/ FAFSA. my EFC is $36,000, yet i received a Trustee's scholarship. as for your stats...well they do look good but Case probably looks more than that. i think it's the essay that got me my scholarship. i wrote about a research project i've been doing since junior year and explained how i developed an interest in medicine through that. you can try an appeal. like unpolloloco said, it can't hurt :)</p>
<p>How do you do an appeal?</p>
<p>Scholarships look at rank in class as well as scores (or did a did a couple of years ago, anyway). If your class rank is good, contact your local admissions rep and ask them about it. They should be able to point you in the right direction. Merit scholarships and Finaid (based on your EFC) are two different things.</p>
<p>hmm did you get PPSP case or normal case?</p>
<p>It can depend upon the major too. For example there are thousands of students who apply for engineering (just to use that as an example). Most schools try to balance out or make the school more well-rounded. None of the schools can offer only the best students admission if they are all planning to major in the same thing. If you look around these boards you will see excellent students, such as yourself, get into NO schools let alone a scholarship. Also, there are a lot more than 2% who do not get scholarships.</p>