@myjanda - I specifically asked the liaison that, and he said it would not be a factor one way or the other for S16.
@Mamaduck- thanks!! That’s good to hear!!
@myjanda - it might vary by school. I’d certainly double-check with the liaison.
@myjanda Our home school won’t allow 2 students form the same family to receive the award at the same time.
@dolphnlvr6, I was asking if the school my daughter is going to would consider giving another child in the same family the TE but you are bringing up an even more important point that I never considered - that our home school wouldn’t allow two kids from the same family to even apply for the TE. I will have my husband check asap as that will change everything if we are now looking at having to pay full price potentially for D2! Yikes!!!
Thanks for bringing this to my - and everyone else’s - attention!!!
Our home school does allow more than one child, but many don’t.
@bella88 Do you Know how many TE Upitt gave out? Also, how did you child’s SAT and GPA scores stack up in HS. My son is an average student, so I was wondering how he stacked up against someone who got the TE into Upitt, as that’s one of my sons top picks right now.
@marguerite42 same with Syracuse, how’d your child’s HS grades look? Also, what college did he decided to choose out of the 6 left?
Thanks so much everyone, this thread was very informational. Looking forward to seeing what students got in HS to be considered for TE for these 2 schools, or any other schools your child got in to TE for. Feel free to share! Would love to Hear thanks
You can look up any of the schools in the Tuition Exchange here and it will show you the % of TE’s they awarded and how much they cover.
http://www.tuitionexchange.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/Families|School%20Search
@dolphnlvr6 yes, but as others were saying that can be hard to go off of. It’s nice to see where people came from (OOS or IS) and scores (SAT andGPA) and if they got into their schools. And 2 particular schools mentioned are ones we are looking at so it would be interesting to hear some numbers if people would share
Gotcha. It’s hard to predict, so many variables that change year to year. Schools never know how many TE scholarships they will be able to award and home schools don’t know how many they can send. My home school was able to send 11 out in 2013 but only 5 in 2014 the year my son got it.Luckily I was high on the seniority list!
If I am in consideration for TE, do colleges also consider me for other merit scholarships? I read a previous post that said colleges would withdraw merit offers if TE was offered or not even consider offering other merit to potential TE students. However, if the merit scholarship was better financially, would I have the choice to choose that over TE? I am not asking about stacking.
I am just wondering if I would have a choice between TE and merit. At a couple of colleges, I think I am competitive for their full tuition scholarship vs. the TE max of $33,000 so I am wondering if they would put me in the TE pool of candidates vs. the full tuition scholarship pool and not offer me a chance for the full tuition scholarship. I tried asking them but they were vague in their responses. Thank you for any help with this!
I’m not sure. My son was awarded a nice merit scholarship with his admittance, and then was awarded the TE, which turned out to cover more so we declined the merit scholarships.
Unfortunately everything varies by school.
The TE web site will show you what percent of applicants typically receive TE at a particular school, but without context that doesn’t really give you a lot of information. There’s no information available about how many TE scholarships a school gives out or how many applicants they get each year or what the stats were of students who were awarded TE.
Our approach was to make sure we had a couple of schools who typically award to 91-100% and where our kids were on the higher end of admitted students stats. - we viewed these as safeties along with the home college.
What the actual award will be and how other merit scholarships are handled also varies. A few schools give info on their web sites but most don’t. We had several different responses:
- one school told us we had to choose between the merit offer received at time of acceptance or TE - D had been competitive for a full-tuition scholarship, didn't get it, so TE ended up being higher than the merit award
- two schools allowed merit to be stacked with TE up to the total cost of tuition (one of these was a 91-100% awarded school, the other was an 11-40% school, so no correlation there)
- one school never gave a merit award, just TE capped at 80% of tuition (but none of their merit awards would have been higher than TE)
The college I work at doesn’t have TE, not even with other state colleges (which is a crime IMHO).
When I read about it, it definitely seemed like the college you work at and the college your child wants to go to matter a lot in regards to “what you get”.
@dolphnlvr6 @InigoMontoya @rhandco Thanks for all your replies. I will just wait and see what happens this spring. I realize I am fortunate to even have the possibility of TE and/or possible merit!
My reply is late for 2015, but for the benefit of the 2016 applicants: I contacted the TE liaison at the target school BEFORE my kids were accepted, just to make sure they had all the required documentation to indicate that my kids were TE eligible. The minute they received admission letters, I contacted TE again to ask about chances, timing for decisions etc. Afterwards, every spring for 4 years I contacted TE liaison for a heads-up, to make sure- again- they had all documentation for TE renewals. I love TE!!! It’s the best financial perk of being a university professor.
Should TEP and CIC-TE eligible students complete the scholarship apps at any college they will NOT be able to attend if they do not get selected for tuition exchange at the school? Thoughts?
Policies on TE vary by school. All but one school first sent D merit scholarship decisions before sending TE decisions. One of the schools said she had to choose between TE or the merit money- and TE was higher. The others said she could combine merit money and TE up to the total cost of tuition (she was applying to schools in the NorthEast, where tuition is routinely higher than the TE mandated amount) or only offered TE and didn’t consider her for merit. You might want to contact the schools to find out if they allow “stacking”, and if so, then it’s definitely beneficial to apply for other scholarships.
Many TE schools will require the filing of FAFSA (and CSS profile if applicable) because if the student is eligible for need-based aid that is often considered before merit aid or TE. Even though we’re nowhere near eligible for need-based aid, I’ve still needed to fill out the FAFSA and CSS profile each year to prove we’re not eligible.
We are very grateful our D16 is eligible for TE. A few of her schools have awarded it to her and we’re waiting on the others. However at least one of the colleges requires an answer on taking the TE by mid-February for the '16/'17 school year. That’ll be before all the schools share their TE decision with her. Some report they’ll wait until April. Any advice on this situation? She’d be willing to attend any of the schools.
Has anyone ever had the experience of being offered TE after they were accepted off a wait list? My daughter got some good TE offers to accepted schools, but doesn’t want to give up on one WL school. However, because she needs to not only get off the WL but also get TE, I think she might be counting on something that perhaps just doesn’t happen, and in that case would like her to move on. Anyone heard of this happening?