According to the chart, I qualify for Provost’s Scholars but does this mean I’m guaranteed it? Does this mean I’m also guaranteed to get into the honors college or do scholarship recipients also have to go through a holistic selection.
I was looking for schools that would be affordable and if this is the case then Temple is perfect. Since my families income falls in the upper middle class range I unfortunately won’t get any type of need-based financial aid. Any info would be appreciated.
Also if anyone knows of schools that offer similar scholarships please help me by telling me.
My GPA: 3.64(UW), 3.78(W)
SAT
Single sitting: 750M 610W 620R 1980C
Superscored: 750M 650W 620R 2020C
It is an automatic scholarship, so unless your GPA goes down or Temple changes it’s scholarship program for the next admitted class, it is guaranteed. And, yes, Provost’s Scholars are currently automatically admitted into Honors.
The Provost is $18k per year for an OOS student. The OOS tuition is 25k, so the Provost leaves about $7k in tuition plus about $15k per year for other costs…so about 22k per year total. There will likely be tuition increases each year, so that 22k cost will rise each year.
Have you asked your parents how much they’ll pay each year?
With your stats, you would get free tuition, so your remaining costs would be about 15k per year. The award increases as tuition increases.
What is your major? Ask your parents how much they’ll pay each year.
edit…I see that you’re interested in Comp Sci. If so, then you’d get an additional 2500 per year from alabama. So remaining costs would be about 13k per year
Since you are from NJ, you should look at Rowan University as well. They also give merit scholarships and have an awesome honors program. Plus, you would get in state tuition and there is a regular bus that runs to Philly so you could have easy access to all the city has to offer.
The College of Eng’g has announnced that it will no longer provide the 1/3 supplement tuition for those with an ACT 30 or 31. However, I haven’t seen anything that says that the $2500 per year will go away.
Perhaps the 2016-17 figure includes students who are in their 2nd-4th years on the big merit scholarships.
^ this sounds like it’s not about the big guaranteed merit awards. They are not tied to need. And yet:
D seriously considered Temple and Dr. Dai spoke at the honors presentation we attended after she was accepted. He’d come to Temple from U Penn (a fact he mentioned at the presentation). I had the impression that he was the person behind the honors program and the merit scholarships. Looks like both were a great success, but Temple wasn’t ready for their popularity.
^^ The Temple awards are now competitive…not assured.
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Dai on Monday acknowledged that financial aid expenses were larger than anticipated, but said that was because the university had attracted a lot of talented students with need.
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^ this sounds like it’s not about the big guaranteed merit awards. They are not tied to need.
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I’m wondering if they meant that they had a lot of students who “needed” need-aid OR merit in order to afford college. And, they had no idea that they’d get the response or yield they got.
There are a bunch of students who have no “need” according to calculations, but they have a lot of “need” because their families can’t/won’t pay their EFCs…
The common data sheet for Temple (2014/15 final figures) lists $28 million of institutional need based aid and 48 million of non need based aid (merit), total $76 million.
Compared to that Penn State lists $42 million institutional need based aid and $15 million non need based aid, total $57 million.
And Pitt lists $25 million institutional need based aid and $22 million non need based aid, total 47 million.