Same. Many didn’t get what they expected. Some I know that had high stats didn’t get anything at all
There was at least one post on the Paying for College 101 page the day they sent out the merit statements which had multiple comments on the thread indicating their initial acceptance letter said they were in one “at least” group but their total received was actually from the next level up.
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My daughter was bumped up a tier from initial acceptance letter. She sent test scores. Didn’t meet her personal goal score but we were given advice to send anyways. If she would have done a lil better on test she may have gotten the 85 but who knows with this year being so crazy. We are from NC and she is also considering NC State but they never give merit.
Thank you. I wasn’t familiar with that group.
we hit where we thought our daughter would be. OOS, Superlative Award. Honors College offer.
We wish they would bump us up a tier or 2 
In a way, we were glad they gave us less than what we were hoping, since it will be easy when we make the decision. Overall, we had good experience with UofSC in this college admission process.
Yea I’ve seen many say it’s not affordable and I expect lots of declines.
I can’t speak for everyone but they have a guide that shows where you should end up. For those admitted in December, we were given an “at least” letter - ours was $85K. And the superlative is $86.9K. They don’t have an $85K scholarship.
They are using amounts vs. last year’s tuition - so the one risk to all these schools except those that lock in your rate is - what happens year to year. Does it go up not at all, 3% or could it go up 20%?
But I can’t imagine anyone would get less then it shows in the book.
The problem is - your GPA might be lower and test score higher than it shows or vice versa and that’s probably a hard thing to figure out from there.
Sadly it doesn’t account for those who went in Test Optional, which many did. Based on the chart mine should have gotten a higher award based on her GPA (which we recalculated based on their recalculations chart) but she didn’t. Not sure if not submitting scores impacted that but if it did I wish they would have updated that page to show.
Yeah - the TO messes things up. But - you couldn’t truly go TO. You had to submit a paper or AP?? We submitted 5 five APs and a 30 ACT, SS to 32 which they did for the first time this year. I wonder if that changed their table…because SS will be higher than no super score. btw - it’s not noted on their website still they SS but we had like 5 people tell us they are (we called a lot to triple check).
Pitt also told us they are for the first time but then we found out it wasn’t true.
Emory says they are on the website - there’s a novel concept. Note your actual policy!!! But again, a 31-34 on a non-super score might be a 32-35, etc. when they change.
Yes mine did the graded essay part.
where is the chart?
I think another thing people have not noticed is that UofSC has also changed the criteria of some of the awards, in either the GPA, the Test Score (ACT/SAT), and maybe even the $$ award given.
|OLD STANDARDS:| NEW STANDARDS:
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Excellence Scholarship 33 ACT/ 4.66 GPA for $2,000/ Yr. NOW 34 ACT/ 4.48 GPA for $2,000
The Elite Scholarship is 34 ACT/ 4.83 GPA for $6,000/ Yr. NOW 35 ACT/ 4.57 GPA for $4,000
The Alumni Scholarship is 35 ACT/ 4.81 GPA for $8,000/Yr NOW 35 ACT/ 4.67 GPA for $8,000
On the school’s website under scholarships
My D only had a 33 ACT (although 34 superscore), 4.0 u/w and received oos waiver +$2000. Do they use a superscore?
The don’t list a SS but claim they did for the first time this year. That could also be why the chart is raised.
Mine had a 4.53 but a 32 superscore - so she excelled on the GPA but not the ACT.
There’s a lot of moving parts.
In 3 weeks we’ll all have every answer - and then can analyze.
What we all go is it - If it works great, if not that’s ok. Hopefully everyone will find a good home.
The schools is not emotional about this. They admit x % knowing y% of that admitted base will come. They are not fretting about you - just about a total #. So you should not fret about them.
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Yes, they say they do.
The numbers listed on that page are not qualifying criteria. They are the averages from the previous year’s recipients (meaning some higher/some lower and thus the fluctuations). Carolina states they are only for comparative purposes.
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You are correct. But, I think they are a good guideline to give people an idea of where they might find. I have talked to so many people this year that got nothing, and were pretty surprised. I was also told by our UofSC rep that they take the rigor and type of classes taken into consideration for the scholarship awards, but not EC’s.
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Thank you for acknowledging rigor. see alot of 4.5 plus but list majority honors Vs a 4.2 with AP Chem AP Calc ABBC etc etc. I thought schools forgot about rigor this year but maybe not. My daughter says she goes to HS with alot of kids that have higher GPA but don’t have the rigor.