Did you receive information about a merit based scholarship from them?
I just called student financial aid: merit scholarships have been released.
How do you access the financial aid portal?
It’s posted as another letter in the portal
How do you access it? I’m not seeing it
Would this be a letter separate from the financial aid award letter?
Should be 4 pages of PDF doc with the letter being the first page. Second page has the merit info, if it says N/A, you didn’t get anything.
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You should have received an email last night with the status update notification. If you go on the portal and look at the most recent update you should see your aid per year there. THERE ARE 4 PAGES OF DOCS SO LOOK THROUGH ALL OF THEM. I say that because it took me rechecking about 40 times before I realized there were indeed 4 pages and not just some weird looking one page letter that wasn’t very specific. The second page is for sure the most helpful.
If you did not apply for need-based, can you still receive merit based aid? If so, how do you check?
My daughter received no merit aid. We were offered need-based aid to bring the cost down to EFC, which is way too high for us. Daughter received significant merit aid at our state university in their honors program. She isn’t excited about the state school and loves WF, but we don’t know if it’s worth taking out large loans to afford.
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I am in the same position. I got max OOS merit at Clemson (not a Clemson scholar however), UMass Amherst, UMaine, and UVM. However, I was only truly excited about WFU. University of Rochester, despite many rumors about how stingy they are with merit, gave me more money than WFU. Extremely disappointed. It’s not even worth considering at this point.
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Should be on the second page of the status update from last night. There is a section for non-need based aid, if it says N/A you did not receive any.
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I never got a status update last night… any idea what’s wrong?
Even when you logged into your portal?
Besides the price, our other concern is that our daughter’s stats are near the middle of admitted students at WF. They are over the 75% at the state school. She wants to go to medical school and I keep hearing that it doesn’t matter where a student goes to undergrad as long as they have a high GPA. We read about WF being nicknamed “work forest” and being known for grade deflation. As parents, we worry her GPA won’t be as high at WF as at our state school, therefore lowering her chances of getting into med school. It’s going to be a tough month trying to decide what to choose.
If wake is going to make you take out over $10000 in loans per year, I’d send her to the state school.
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Yes, my only status update is the original acceptance letter.
I also never got a status update or email. I didn’t apply for aid so I’m not sure whether this just means i didn’t get any merit either… but even in that case I’d still expect to get a document that tells me my estimated cost of attendance… weird.
Wake also has a matriculation rate to Med School that’s about double the national average.
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Legally speaking you should’ve or will very soon have gotten a document… if you don’t have one by next week maybe call.