My child’s mother is on the faculty of a school participating in the Tuition Exchange program. My child loves one of the reciprocal schools, and has a decent chance of getting in, but the school only grants tuition remission to less than 10% of eligible applicants. Anyone with experience in this tuition exchange program?
Mainly, my child cannot apply ED to the school because she cant go if she doesn’t get the funding. But really wants to go. Thoughts on how to increase chance of getting remission?
You can probably still apply ED but it might not be the one your child should though. You can always back out if the finances don’t work if you are not offered the exchange. We are a TE family as well, and the best bet is to cast the net very wide. You just don’t know how the selection process is done.
But will this student even know if he or she receives the TA award in time to accept or decline an ED acceptance?
Thank you for your reply. Yes, the TE process seems to be very mysterious (lol). The % or number of awards given at some schools seems to change year to year.
Some schools ( I hear) may allow you to apply ED knowing you are a TE family, and if you don’t get the funding, you are not obligated to the school. The schools my child is considering do not do that, but my spouse heard that some do. Check with the individual school.
In my research, it seems like the TE offers are pretty late and earliest February 1 and some as late as April. The whole uncertainty of the exchange is super stressful.
We visited one on Friday and I did get to talk with an admissions person and this school offers three. Last year they received 45 applications so about 6% chance. This college looks for gpa, test scores, HS involvement, and extra curriculars. It’s all magic and it seems like they pick based on what they need or desire (athletics, expanding program, niche something) that year. We hope that because our child is looking to a major where they will be in a brand new building maybe that will help. And maybe not. We are trying not to get our hopes up for any school and cast the net very wide, including the school where spouse works. I do think that to be competitive at most of the more desirable/popular exchanges like UPitt, you really need to be above their 75% in scores.