<p>why on earth doesn't Northwestern and Gtown offer scholarships?</p>
<p>That is definetely kind of odd? Is that b/c they are giving away all of their money to athletes?</p>
<p>Why? Because they are giving all their money away to kids who demonsrate need. However that is defined.</p>
<p>I'm confused about how Chicago can offer 70 scholarships to 7000-8000 students yearly?</p>
<p>We offer full-tuition scholarships to 20 students each year. We offer partial-tuition scholarships to around 100 students each year. We admit 3,600. We have 9,500 in our applicant pool, all of whom are eligible for these scholarships. Where did the 7000-8000 come from?</p>
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I think it has something to do with vectors and parabolas and ......other big math words. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks for checking in, Libby. Say hello to Michael S. , our Val from two years ago from rural Central Texas. Thanks for taking a chance on an good kid from an unknown school. We are very proud of him.</p>
<p>what's a doctoral colllege?</p>
<p>Curmudge
Welcome back,knew you coudnt stay away too long.
Lets just keep U South Carolina our little secret huh?
They wound up giving S so much $ he had to turn some back (more than the cost of ed).Got two departmental schollies on top of the McNair, the Lieber (for NMF).Not to mention the free computer and the $2,000 study abroad grant.And his HS principal still wanted to know why he picked the "real" USC!</p>
<p>Thanks Cathy. I'm not really here by choice. I was drafted (recalled?) to help with this merit aid "stuff". ;) </p>
<p>There are some schools like South Carolina that , as you know from our time on the board, have exceptional programs for great students at Doctoral Uni's that for whatever reason didn't make the list. Again the list was just a starting point - not intended to be complete or even qualitative. Just 20 "Top 100" schools ("Top 100" as chosen by USNews, not me) that I knew had good merit programs.</p>
<p>I'm a real big fan of the of Arkansas Honors and all that Wal-Mart money for travel and "enhancement" and maybe the most generous merit program of all, U of Alabama Honors -Tier One Scholarships, and of course U of South Carolina Honors - especially the McNair. The truth is that any state Flagship honors program is going to be chock full of kids who could have been elsewhere but chose to be at the flagship for $, geography, opportunity, rah-rah, special programs, and I guess too many other things to list. While I'm not that happy with the limited merit awards at UTexas- Plan II and Ole Miss-Barksdale, both programs are fantastic and the Dean at SM Barksdale Honors College is still my favorite person I met on the whole admissions "trip". (O.K.. Dave Wottle, my teenage hero being Dean of Admissions at Rhodes was too cool but other than that ;) , it's Dean S-G at Barksdale.)</p>
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<p>welcomback from hibernation? LOL</p>
<p>The UC's do offer merit money, labeled Regent's and/or Chancellor's and even include OOS kids in that $ pool (Cal #20), but only to a select few, so you could add them to both of your original lists.</p>
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bb, I'm trying my dangedest to stay close to the cave. If you see me wandering give me a smack upside the head.;)</p>
<p>sars, Doctoral or Research Doctoral is one classification used by USNews to differentiate between schools. There are schools that don't fit perfectly. Some Uni's are listed as LAC's, some Doctoral Schools are very small and have a more LAC feel. The parameter specifically speaks to schools where a Phd. is the highest terminal degree awarded. (It may be an attempt to follow the Carnegie classification of colleges and Uni's . I've never researched it. )</p>
<p>I'm going to post this on both need/merit threads I have going because I think it's important. You might think so , too.</p>
<p>Two things occurred to me today when I was rehashing these two Need/Merit threads with my lovely D. </p>
<p>Unfortunately I set up these threads poorly where the reader has to read both to get all the info. Duh. </p>
<p>And probably more unsettling, we are really just showing a thumbnail of the process we went through from spring of her sophomore year till the accepted the offer from Rhodes. There were many , many twists and turns on the road. </p>
<p>I can't fix the first one and the second one would take far more time than I can give it...but you can access the travels with your search function. I posted trip reports every time. I posted interview techniques and sources of "training". I posted techniques of gleaning tidbits from the campus "invisibles". Security guards, maintenace staff, cafeteria workers, local shopkeepers (ask the school about drinking or the liquor store owner across from campus? Gee. I think I'll ask Honest Henry the Hooch-Guy.) And so on and so on, through-out the process.</p>
<p>Far more important than my efforts is the fact that our local brain trust chimed in, steered me right, showed me different ways to look at things and ...yes, admittedly boxed my ears more than once. When you find threads started by me you'll find times that I stridently opposed their advice only to read a thread months later where I was now championing the same advice I had been so forcefully decrying. We all have the capacity to learn but sometimes I was a little slow on the uptake. Sometimes it took a two by four or a ball-peen hammer upside my head. </p>
<p>One poster had the gall to suggest that my D retake her 1460 and her 32!!! Whateverthehell for? That's top 1% for females. Were they insane or just plain stupid? No. They were right because my D wanted to go to the best school we could afford with merit aid and at those levels the schools weren't sure to be the schools to which she was applying. </p>
<p>Another set of posters, basically the entire CC list of veterans and Dave Berry hisownself, told me repeatedly D needed to apply to some need only schools if there was ANY remote chance of need aid. Around these parts - we ain't poor. We ain't even middle class - we're "mighty well off". I mean Homecoming Queen is traditionally selected around here from the small list of girls with shoes and a purse to match. The directions to the richest kid in school's house start with "You turn off the paved road." When the Superintendent of schools got a new house they let school out early so we could help take the wheels off.</p>
<p>They also told me that she needed to apply to schools that would strike fear in heart of those merit schools she was applying to attend. I flat didn't get it. </p>
<p>Why would she do THAT?</p>
<p>Well, somewhere along the line it hit me. </p>
<p>It may have been when I stumbled on the idea that FA was a floating number at Bucknell, for example, or that preference was shown by FA at USC to steal away a student from Stanford.</p>
<p>It may have been when I was on college A's website where prominently displayed Student Blank was quoted as saying "I could have gone to Harvard. I just couldn't have taken all of 'me' to Harvard." Or maybe it was the fifth or tenth time I noticed in the scholar profile of Student Bob that "He turned down Columbia and Yale to attend here as a Grand Poobah Scholar. 'The opportunity presented here in the Poobah Program was just too great to pass up.' "</p>
<p>Gee. Now I got it. They might have wanted to put my kid in that photo, but they wanted that same caption.:)</p>
<p>The vets. Mini and Marite, Carolyn and SBmom, jmmom, Alumother, Soozie, Sybbie, cheers, my goodbestfriend Doc cangel who talked me off the ledge many times, my evil twin TheDad, the boy wonder Xiggi - there are so many giving knowledgeable folks willing to help (and I'm only mentioning a few as I have CRS, Can't Remember Squat disease) - when the vets talked, I learned to listen (but as you'll see if you search- never right off;)). </p>
<p>So - use your search functions. A lot. There are threads on most any topic you can think of about the process but I wouldn't wander into the Alley or Confidentialia College. Those places are truly odd. </p>
<p>Who do y'all have to thank for my burst of energy? cheers said in a post a while back that some folks had picked up their prize and left. She was right. I hadn't paid my debts. See? I'm still learning from the vets.</p>
<p>I think you just have too much time on your hands. Good thing for the rest of us.</p>
<p>The way I figure it Curm you have several years left!!!!!!!</p>
<p>That was some prize!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I am a doc studient of Political Science/Practical Philosophy at a University in Madrid, Spain.</p>
<p>I would love to join a research team at an American University, preferably with one of the great universities, such as Boston or John Hopkins.</p>
<p>Now, what steps would I have to take?
- Find a job, get a visa, establish myself there directly etc...
- OR are there scholarships for European students (Austrian nationality)
- OR should I directly contact with a professor over there in the US?</p>
<p>Perhaps I should add that I have post-grad studies in international relations and peacekeeping. Furthermore my profession is journalism and I have experience in doing research mainly in the field of human rights...</p>
<p>My sense is that I could complement my studies substantially in the United States and eventually even work there in a relevant institution.
That is my intuition but yet I ve no clue how to go about it.</p>
<p>Thank you for any helpful suggestions!
Very best greetings, hasta pronto,
from Barcelona where I´m now,
Elisabeth</p>
<p>It is all about finding the right fit and then composing the right selection of schools for that list. What works for one nay not work for someone else. With enough research and effort, it is amazing how much merit money can be found. Our list is probably not representative, but it worked for us. Full or almost full rides at the following; Duke, Emory, WashU, Tulane, U Rochester, U Miami. A mixture of reaches, matches and safeties. There was a lot of work selecting the schools on the basis of fit and afordability. After that a lot of work and effort in applying for merit awards. Believe it or not, there is an actual strategy in applying for merit awards.</p>
<p>Listen to ST2. He knows his stuff. ;)</p>