Merit and financial aid are two different things. Merit is scholarship and UIUC is very stingy on those.
Our financial aid portal still only shows received so perhaps not everyone’s has been process. Nevertheless usually the 5k is usually around the amount of loans kids can take (I think it’s $5,500) freshman year that some often confuse with grants but not sure based on what you’re saying if people received FA or Merit money.
My daughter received 80K merit aid over all for all 4years.
That is very generous, it’s free tuition, only have to worry about R&B.
As we are OOS I think the tuition is around 37K and overall cost is around 50K. The aid given will definitely help offset 40% of the cost.
We were pleasantly surprised with the generous merit aid from the school.
Didn’t your daughter also get into MIT and UT among others? Is she still considered those and/or just taking the best offer she gets?
It sounds like what they gave @VRN2021 daughter is basically enough merit that she is essentially paying the same as an in state which is too bad because she is clearly a hot prospect and that’s like nothing considering UIUC is expensive for in state. OOS tuition is 39k for engineering, so 20k off that is 19k which is just a couple thousand less than in state Engineering. They have to do better than that! It’s still going to cost them about $36k/year and that’s for moderate priced dorm and meal plan. They need to offer top prospects more $.
If that’s the case, I would take MIT in heartbeat.
Yes she got into MIT, UT Austin and few others. She is trying learn more about the research programs at each of the schools she is admitted to decide.
Fabulous opportunities, but understandable if she wants to do research and a particular type to find the best fit for her!
Son got a letter in the mail with the AIM High Scholarship money today $5k. We weren’t expecting anything so this was a nice surprise!
When does Financial Aid notifications come? It says mid march, but around what date? Have any of you received it already?
Ours only says received but others have gotten theirs it sounds like.
Did anyone else receive honors e-mails last night? Was curious if chancellors honors went out in addition to specific colleges.
yes, i got an email for the LAS honors program last night
Our son received the acceptance to Campus Honors Program last Thursday.
My D got the LAS honors email last night.
does anyone know how difficult is it to be accepted into the college honors programs? The website said the top 10% of the college, but my stats seem a little low for that hahaha
How do I check on my portal if I got a scholarship ?
I just got an email about being chosen for the James Scholar Honors program. Does this mean anything important? Does it mean there’s a chance at merit scholarship?
did anyone else get an e-mail saying that you’re invited to the Golder Freshman Initiative? also did anyone apply to the gies honors program and do the interview yet?