@A1A1A1 We didn’t write it down, but when we went to one of the Orange Preview days last summer and attended the financial aid presentation, they roughly broke it down. They said merit is awarded for the top students in each college, and at that time they said it topped out at 25,000 for the best of the best–a handful of students. Now it looks like they’ve nudged that up to 28,000. Then it went down to maybe 15,000 for the next percentile down, again in each college. There might have been a 10,000 increment in the middle, and then they said that the lowest amount was 5,000, I believe. We didn’t really listen and didn’t make any notes after they said their top was 25,000 and it was for a very small percentage. I know there is the Coronat scholarship, which is separate from this information. But that was what they spelled out for us for merit. I believe it’s based on the overall pool of applicants, so it really depends on how one student measures up to the pool as a whole.
This is not need based, though, so you may still get money based on your EFC through both the FAFSA and the CSS. While the FAFSA spells it out upfront, the CSS is an opaque process that ultimately allows the schools wiggle room with you behind the scenes if they really want you. (We learned this from conversations with the financial aid director at Skidmore.)
@A1A1A1 When we went to one of the Orange Preview days last summer, we attended the financial aid presentation and got some information on merit aid. At that time, they said that merit aid topped out at 25,000 and was given to the best of the best at each of the colleges–a very small percentage. It looks like since then they’ve nudged it up to 28,000.
Aid then dropped down from there–maybe 15,000, definitely 10,000, ending at 5,000 I believe. Again, these may have increased with the Invest in Syracuse increase that has since been announced. All amounts went to the best applicants for each individual college, with it roughly corresponding with their percentile in the overall class. The better you were compared to that college’s pool as a whole, the more likely you were to get money.
This is not need-based though, and you can still get that separately based on your FAFSA and CSS. While the FAFSA is upfront about your family’s EFC, the CSS is much more opaque to families. However, the CSS does allow the schools wiggle room behind the scenes if they would like you to attend their school. (We learned this from the financial aid director at Skidmore.)
Does anyone think we might start to hear today? Based on strings from years prior, there were some decisions released every Friday for the whole month, starting with maybe international and certain programs, then general, then denials, then waitlists. Does anyone think/know differently?
Spoke to admissions yesterday. Decisions will be out by the end of March. The only ones that are coming out early are international and certain other specialty programs. The rest of the “general population” for lack of a better term come out together by the end of March.
I just called the admission office and the women on the phone said that decisions are not going out today. She also said that decisions will start going out by mid-March but assured me that everyone will hear by the end of March. I still find this to be surprising because two people in my grade had found out last Friday that they were accepted.
@mytwobuoys is engineering a “specialty program”? Because I’m not international and I got my acceptance last week. I’m from Idaho, so maybe they were doing their best to get those geographic diversity points? Idk I feel like I’m not that special
@ski_racer , you are probably special to Syracuse and they wanted to make sure they have you, plus they want to give you time to “comfort your mom before you leave her and go all the way to Syracuse” ok i’m kidding. But I think you are special to them because you are a high stat student and they don’t want to risk losing you.
@ski_racer I’m just relaying what the lovely admissions lady told me. They must want you to enroll like @kisakyamaliya states. Congrats on your acceptance. Cuse is a great school! My DS is prepared for end of the month and anything earlier is a bonus!
I’ve been checking email and MySlice account regularly - no emails and now I cannot access My Slice anymore - either freezes on login or gives me a message - You are not authorized for this page, where login details should be. Is this happening to anyone else?
@stepl100 I was able to get into my daughter’s account just now. Maybe they were doing updates overnight? Or maybe you need to clear your cache and cookies and restart on the site?