Tuition Exchange - Fall 2019 Apps for Fall 2020 Frosh

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Thanks @wallyworldjb and @Gurteen! Her success is in large part from reading the insight from these pages and choosing carefully where to apply. Thank you all for sharing your experience. It has made the process easier.

I am sharing now for future applicants because I found last year’s thread to be incredibly informative. The collective knowledge here is far better than the TE web page or individual school pages in a lot of ways.

She is only waiting for two more. Now I am wondering how in the world people make a final decision. I am hoping accepted student visits do the trick.

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TE at Pitt is hard to get I’ve heard so she must be an amazing student. Congrats!!

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Thank you to everyone for the information in the thread. My son just found out that he received tuition exchange at Pitt I only checked his portal because I saw @realmmom’S post so thank you for sharing. He is still waiting to hear from several others.

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Thanks, @MAandMEmom and congratulations @mjsemom!

After the Pitt announcement, she decided to cut another school from consideration. (Partly because she didn’t want to do a supplemental honors program essay but mostly because she likes Pitt better. )

Maybe the decision process won’t be as terrible as I fear.

Good luck to everyone through the waiting process. My university’s admissions director said lots of places will announce in February. Fingers crossed and best of luck!

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My daughter received her first TE offer at Seton Hall. She has 7 other apps out there. I am thrilled we have one option!

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Congratulations on all of the TE awards! I had pored through the prior years’ posts on the topic when starting to make our plans for applying, so I hope this thread proves equally helpful (and hopeful!) for future parents looking for TE.

We are currently just waiting on one last notification, hoping it comes through in Feb. Then, it is off for revisits and accepted student events where she does get it to figure out the best fit.

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As a parent of two TE students, I want to share our experience with my D at Boston University. She was accepted at BU in 2018 but was put on a waiting list for TE (about 70 or more). To our surprise, BU actually gave us a generous grant aid, which made it possible for my D to commit. Since BU was her first choice, she committed without TE.

Now, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, BU only awards 10 TE and there were 70 or more on the waiting list. But I asked my D to continue to email the TE office at BU for updates on a bi-weekly/monthly basis from April to June/July. Luckily, BU emailed her in July (I think?) to let her know that she got the TE award ($36K). I think it was both luck and persistence on her part to let them know that she was still on the waiting list. Of course, BU then took away the grant aid, but still TE saved us about 3-4K.

As we were hoping for the TE trifecta this year with our last child, she was accepted EA to her top choice school (non-TE) with generous aid. So, she withdrew from all her TE-eligible schools, including USC where my first child is a graduating senior. So, good luck to all of you and when it’s needed, be persistent!

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My son received his first TE scholarship yesterday to St. Johns University in NY. It feels very good to finally see this benefit in action. Hopefully some additional offers roll in soon. Good luck to everyone else who is waiting.

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More good news today,…2nd TE scholarship (Full) from Catholic University.

Good luck to everyone else who is waiting. I feel like a bunch of people on this chat are going to hear soon!

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D accepted to U Tampa with large scholarship, however TE denied.
Not one of her top picks so likely will pass anyway.

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D20 offered TE to Stonehill in early Jan. Very excited, but still waiting to hear from 6 other TE apps. I appreciate all the information-sharing on this thread. It’s a long wait for all the answers to come in, and this is sustaining LOL.

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@harveyjane

My friends D19 is a freshman at SLU in mech eng (on TE). She loves it there so far although its only one semester in. She will be doing her first semester of her sophomore year at SLUMadrid which she is very excited about!

Good luck!

(My S23 is kid #2 but first time will be looking at TE/FACHEX as kid#1 S19 chose a tech school path).

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TE from Butler received today. We heard it was very competitive last year, so I wasn’t sure. Still waiting for one more.

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Congrats to everyone on all of the good news!!! @realmmom and @mjsemom - I just wanted to put in a plug for Pitt - I have a junior there and she just LOVES it. Loves that it’s urban, but not too crazy (traffic and parking aren’t awful, free busses everywhere, and it’s pretty easy to get tickets for events and things). Loves the academics. She’s in bioengineering and worked in a research lab sophomore year and is on her second full-time co-op right now (all in Pittsburgh). TE covered all of tuition freshman year, but they’ve raised tuition faster than the minimum TE has increased so we pay a tiny bit for tuition. Though that depends on what school within Pitt you are in, as tuition for each is different.

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Thanks @mageecrew. We have heard really good things about Pitt. We are from PA so I think tuition would be free. I am happy to hear that your daughter is having such a great experience.

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FYI, for anyone waiting to hear from Richmond I just found out my son was offered tuition exchange there. He applied early action.

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MJSEMOM, would you be comfortable sharing stats? My daughter is interested in Richmond (EA/ED?) for Fall 2021.

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Thanks for posting @mjsemom and congratulations! My daughter checked her portal and also received TE at Richmond. That is her last one so for the sake of posterity and future applicants (thanks to @CollegeOdyssey2001 for sharing this info last year as a single summary that I found really helpful), here are her results:

STATS: One sitting each of the ACT (35) and SAT (1580); UW GPA = 4.0; W GPA = 4.6+; 8 APs (scored 5s on the 4 exams she has taken so far); 2 College course (Calc II as a junior at my institution); National Merit Semifinalist

Attends public high school that is majority minority. Very strong writer. Usual ECs (theater and academic things).

TE received at all places she applied. Informed by the end of January. (Richmond was the last on 1/30)

Wooster
Partial TE = $40,000, leaves tuition + room + board of $26,750. Notified at admission.

DePaul
Full tuition. We don’t have numbers for fees, room + board yet.(Should be under 20K). Notified at admission.

Pitt
Should be close to full tuition for an Arts and Sciences student. We don’t have numbers for fees, room + board yet. (Should be under 20K; maybe close to 15K). Replaced initial 25K merit award.

Butler
Full tuition. We don’t have numbers for fees, room + board yet. (Should be under 20K). Replaced initial 22K merit award.

Richmond
Partial TE = $ 38,000, leaves tuition + room + board of $32,090. Notified with complete financial aid packet.

Fordham
Received National Merit Semifinalist full tuition, leaves room + board + fees = $20,509. Notified at admission.

Not as good as the github spreadsheet @SLUProf made, but perhaps helpful to some current parents of sophomores or juniors.

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Congrats @realmom ! What great and deserving results for your daughter. @kuergen he has a 5.2 weighted gpa (per his school’s class profile he has the highest GPA in his grade in a fairly large high school but his school does not rank), 34 ACT, several leadership roles, rigorous schedule with many AP classes and will have 12 varsity letters when he graduates. Good luck to your daughter. We really liked Richmond when we visited. It is a beautiful campus.

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Thanks, @realmmom! I’m glad you found the spreadsheet useful! I looked at the numbers you have for your results, and I am happy to see that the spreadsheet I had, while outdated, is still pretty close to the results you got.

And congrats on all of the results; that’s awesome!