Any student who applies by January 15 is automatically considered for scholarships, so your daughter is well within that deadline. The Scholarship Committee has recently started reviewing candidates and will continue to do so through late-winter. While some students are hearing back already on scholarship decision, it is very common for many candidates to go through several reviews before a decision is made. Bottom line, students who are selected for a scholarship should hear back by March 1 at the latest. Any candidate who is selected to compete for the chancellor’s scholarship will be given notification of the deadline in their letter and will be notified of their nomination with ample time to complete their application before the deadline.
@hailtopitt1787 - if a student was awarded a full tuition scholarship, but no Chancellor invitation in that letter, will there be any opportunities to compete/apply/be-considered for a full ride scholarship, or is that full tuition the maximum? (I’m not trying to sound ungrateful, just to get a handle on what we might learn more financially.) For instance, I heard that there might also be Engineering merit awards, but I don’t know if those would be additional to a “full tuition”. Thank you!
Students who are nominated to compete for the Chancellor’s Scholarship are notified in their award letter. The Chancellor’s Scholarship process has become very competitive. Not all full tuition scholarship recipients are invited to apply for the Chancellor’s Scholarship. If your award letter does not mention the Chancellor’s Scholarship, you were not nominated.
I hope that helps clarify things!
Congrats to all who received scholarships. To those who have not heard back, everyone who is selected to receive a scholarship will hear by March 1st.
@hailtopitt1787 I emailed an admissions processor and she told me that the invitation will be sent separately from the scholarship notification… Should I check with her again tomorrow?
@jhgong, I confirmed with a member of the scholarship committee and read through the notification letters we send, so I can say with significant certainty that the nomination comes with the scholarship award letter. I am sorry for any conflicting information you may have received.
Know that the Chancellor’s nomination process is highly competitive and many very accomplished students have to be turned away as the Scholarship Committee carefully deliberates over who they should nominate.
Congratulations to you on any scholarship offer you may have received. You mentioned a full tuition scholarship above, which is a very prestigious award.
@jhgong, I am sorry, I submitted a response to you last night but the app on my phone must have glitched!
I checked with a member of the Scholarship Committee and I double checked the award/nomination letters that we send out, so I can say with significant certainty that nominees are invited in their award letters. I am sorry you received conflicting information.
As I said before, the Chancellor’s Scholarship nomination process has become extremely competitive. Even full scholarship recipients are not guaranteed a nomination.
I will say, the full tuition scholarship itself is very prestigious. I know you mentioned receiving this scholarship earlier in the thread, so many congratulations!
Last year my son was asked to apply for both the Stamps Scholarship and the Chancellor’s Scholarship. The letters were separate and came two months apart (Stamps-Sept, Chan-Nov). I am fairly certain that the committees for each are different. Hope that helps.
SLS and CS are totally difference prestigious full-ride awards. To my best knowledge, CS is (academic/leadership) merit-based for applicants from PA and OOS, and SLS is (leadership and academic) merit-based for applicants from PA.
I received the Honors Challenge Full Tuition from Scholarship, and I was wondering if anyone knew exactly what that was? I have no idea what the requirements for it were. Thanks!
My son received his full tuition letter w/chancellor’s invite today. Date on the letter is Nov 16, and we are on the west coast. (I’m quite surprised it took that long to get here - he now has a bit more than a week to apply!)
He applied for admission in late October, accepted maybe two weeks after application. NMSF, 2300+ SAT, 35 ACT, 4.0 (unweighted), school doesn’t rank, lots of college classes taken already with all As, school of engineering.