Yes, my son has one
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Decisions are out!
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DD is in with 25k scholarship
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DS admitted, no $ mentioned. Should we worry?
Said if we applied for financial aid it would come in separate coverā¦ you think merit is included in that?
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Maybe you guys will get some really good financial aid? We are hoping for FA as well, wonāt be able to afford it without.
DD got in with $12K merit. Iām impressed the letter mentioned things she said in her application (her interest in a campus organization that is not well known).
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Yes, acceptance letter to DS also mentioned specific things he wrote about in his application. Thatās a first for us.
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Well, we are clearly worried. Daughter admitted and mentioned a few essay things but no mention of money other than what has been mentioned here as maybe later. But no grants with acceptance etter is highly unusual in our experience. We got tons of merit/grants at other schools in the acceptance and BIG ones. UR is not an option for us unless we get at least 40K in grants that gets us to within 15K of a SUNY Buffalo and Bing which we consider about as good for many majors. Too bad as our family has a long UR legacy and first choice but not looking good.
I would agree a lot of the reason is diversity, quality of applicants and probably willing to pay full price. Used to be UR tried to recruit locally and even had a Meliora scholarship for students in the adjoing counties to UR in hopes of keeping the graduates local and engaged post graduation. I donāt see that anymore and havenāt seen UR really recruiting locally like they used to.
Is that per year? Either way it seems to be the best one mentioned so far.
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Yes- itās per year:)
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My d23 was also admitted, but not one penny of merit. Very surprised (and pissed). Wondering whether it has to do with legacy. Maybe they assume they donāt need to incentivize her with merit$, I just donāt get it. Every other offer sheās received several has come with merit ranging from $20 to $30k per year. U of R was shaping up to be her first choice, but the complete merit snub really leaves a bad taste in our mouth.
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Omega. Exactly our sentiment and experience with large merit at every other college she got into. UR was her first choice so obviously crushed. Geez even SUNY schools gave her significant merit on top of already affordable COA which we didnāt expect and very much appreciated.
A very big congratulations!
Perhaps @Creekland can weigh in. My impression is that Rochester is moving more towards need based aid, with far less merit awards being given.
Congratulations to all who were accepted! Itās not an easy admit either!
I sure hope you are correct and a big award coming soon. Not that we will qualify for enough even then to justify UR.
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Iām not quite sure if theyāre moving to mostly need based aid or not TBH. With my own guy having graduated some years ago and not working at our high school that much recently I havenāt kept up.
I feel for those who have missed out though - and wish everyone the best wherever they end up. My own guy wouldnāt have gone there if it hadnāt been affordable - and had an unaffordable acceptance of his own at Furman (where he should have had a bit IMO), so I understand the feeling.
My son was admitted apparently without merit (at least none was mentioned in his acceptance letter). Weāre waiting for the financial aid letter before abandoning all hope, but things do not look great.
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Iād love it if folks can follow up on this to know if merit aid is also awarded to students with need based aid later on or if they keep the two notifications separate for all.
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University of Rochester offered full tuition to NMF sometime ago and last year we got almost nothing for NMF so people who are hunting for merit should avoid U of R. I donāt know how generous they are about Financial Aid. But the school is really good for a person who wants to learn. Really nice place for for a STEM.
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