Treuhaft/Squire Scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z Case Western Reserve University
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Hello,

I have some questions regarding these Treuhaft/Squire Scholarship at CWRU. Can someone clarify these?

  1. How many such full-tuition sholarships are awarded each year?
  2. Are there other such scholarships that cover full cost of tuition? Does Michelson Morley STEM scholarship cover up to full tuition?
  3. What are the typical stats of candidates who are invited to apply to these two scholarships? I believe all are automatically considered for Michelson Morley and other university scholarships but these two scholarships require a special invitation for further application?
  4. There is no such thing as merit-based full-ride at CWRU, is there?
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I know nothing about the Treuhaft Scholarship, My sons were awarded Presidential Scholarship back in 2013, and the Michelson Morley Scholarshipin 2016. My understanding is that the award amount is based on : 1. GPA 2. ACT scores 3. SAT Subject exam scores 4. sports or music talent and willingness to play Division 3 may sweeten the pot.

We know a boy who got larger award than us, with an ACT of 35, and he may have had some financial need, and got about $125K over four years. and a boy on a sports team got about $125K also over four years.

My kids got scholarships without filling out additional paperwork.
One of my children got the Presidential Scholarship which was worth about $95,000 over four years. My other child got the Michelson Morley Award, which was worth $114,000 for us. It may be a full ride, but depends on many factors, is my sense, call CWRU and ask about that. We had no financial need which may have limited it to what we got.

The son who got the Michelson Morley in 2016, was a National Merit Finalist and put CWRU as his first choice college. He had a 4.0 unweighted GPA, SAT Math 2=800 SAT physics subject =800, ACT=34 or 35. He was a coding and design leader on his FIRST robotics team, and wrote about that. He did summer school at Carnegie Mellon and submitted his transcripts for two hard college level classes, both As. He earned an IB diploma and he took three AP classes on top of IB curriculum.

He goes to a top rated public school.

(he could not get into CMU computer science with all of that, but he got into CWRU).

I think there are FOUR full rides in Theatre at CWRU that are competitive. My older child applied for a Music scholarship that required an audition on his horn in February of his senior year. We flew to CWRU for that, as he had already been admitted and had the Presidental Award. He wanted to augment his Presidential but he could not win the music award, its very tough to win that award. He submitted a tape from All State competition and that got him a live audition for the Music Scholarship.

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Thank you for the detailed response @Coloradomama! COA currently is 64K per year, so at an award of $125K over 4 years isn’t going to be full-ride. I suspect based on your post here that the maximum CWRU awards is full-tuition. After reading of CWRU scholarships at http://admission.case.edu/affording-cwru/scholarships/, Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Scholarship appears to be the only full-ride scholarship at CWRU. This one requires on-campus interview and I am not sure how many are awarded each year.

Is there any reason to believe that the pre-professional programs (BS/MD) might not qualify for any of these scholarships? My daughter is interested in applying for the BS/MD program and has her stats comparable to your son. Top 1%, 34/35 ACT, 1540 SAT and is doing difficult college courses.

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@OHToCollege My sons did not get full rides to CWRU they got about a 2/3 tuition award, and then my older child
won an alumni award for junior and senior year, that covered the tuition increases. He applied for that in sophomore year. It was based on his college grades, as I remember. I would call and ask CWRU how many Roslyn Wolf awards they give out, I do not know.

Have you looked into Presidential Awards at Flagship State schools? The list of National Merit schools, those schools offer full rides to a few kids who are close to National Merit scores, even if they do not make the cut.

A few I know that offer Presidential or National Merit full rides are:

U of Tulsa in OK
U of Oklahoma
U of Texas Dallas
Arizona State
U of Arizona.
U of Alabama

The full rides for NM Scholars are usually middle ranked public college although U of Tulsa is a private college and ranked a bit higher than the others I list above.
Someone with your daughter’s stats may win a Presidential type full ride even if she is not a National Merit Scholar
at these middle ranked state schools, some of which are good for premedical/biology etc.

Sorry I do not know much about BS/MD programs, other than they are very hard to get into. More students locally are able to get into U of Rochesters BS/MD than the one at CWRU, is what I have heard. Its very hard to get into any BS/MD program though.

Much harder than winning the half or 3/4 tuition that my kids got at CWRU !

Its certainly worth trying.

By the way, Vanderbilt University offers a rigorous premed program, and is well known for generous financial aid, if you believe you may qualify for financial aid. I think Vanderbilt is on the level with Harvard U for awards, so its a bit like merit and financial aid combined. Vanderbilt is considerably harder for admission compared to CWRU right now.
About 15 % or less, of applicants get into Vanderbilt, and about 25% of applicants get into CWRU.

I like Case Western better for its more relaxed social and academic environment, as its less cutthroat than a lot of these Ivy like programs out there, such as Vanderbilt, from what we hear.

CWRU is very good for families who may not qualify for financial aid, as their awards are merit based and very large in my opinion.

Its hard to win $125K merit based at any other private college of the rank and caliber of CWRU, UNLESS you have financial need, or your child wants to go to a military academy, like Annapolis, West Point, Air Force, which are free for all who get in.

State schools will offer full rides in some states though for in state students. The state of Colorado does not offer such good full ride scholarship programs, (we have the Boettcher, which is limited to 40 students, half girls and half boys ) but I have heard New Jersey, Maryland and the midwest offer full rides for their TOP state students to keep them in state.

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Thank you again @Coloradomama for the elaborate response. Daughter just confirmed 35 ACT composite and perfected her science sub-score to a 36. Thankfully, CWRU appears to superscore ACT.

Of the schools you mention here, she was planning on applying to Vanderbilt, but I will bring up U of Rochester BS/MD program with her. CWRU is her first choice of BS/MD programs as it’s close to home and is highly ranked as well. She will choose CWRU even if not admitted to BS/MD program, should the merit aid be competitive with other schools in the running.