<p>update</p>
<p>Son
ACT 28
GPA 3.65
Rank 148/533</p>
<p>Iowa State 5500/yr
LSU 5000/yr
Mississippi 6000/yr
GVSU 5800/yr
Kentucky 3000/yr
Bama 3500/yr
SIUC 0
Arkansas 0</p>
<p>Son
ACT 32
GPA 4.158
Rank 9/247</p>
<p>U of San Diego 20,000/yr
Santa Clara 15,000/yr
U of Portland 17,000/yr
Willamette 17,000/yr</p>
<p>Thanks to those who have posted! This is very useful information. Does anyone else have recent information to contribute?</p>
<p>Me (female HS senior)
2210 SAT (only took it once)
32 ACT (only took it once)
4.0 unweighted GPA
Rank 1/565
National Merit Commended (miss the cutoff for SF by 1 point…BOO! 
lol )
Semi-finalist (in prograss) for the Boettcher Foundation Scholarship, which is a FULL RIDE to any university/college in Colorado. </p>
<p>So far, I’ve received merit aid from two private universities here in Colorado:</p>
<p>University of Denver - Chancellor’s Scholarship $19,000 year
Regis University - Provost Scholarship, $13,000 year
The state schools I’ve applied to don’t send out merit aid offers until you’ve done the FAFSA and submitted the separate scholarship apps online, which I’m in the process of doing.</p>
<p>So i was just curious because I’ve yet to receive hardly any money from my university whats wrong with me?</p>
<p>Me: Male
Act: 30
GPA: 3.8’ish
I do some volunteering and I’m in N.H.S but I’m no mother Theressa
There’s only one school I’m truly interested in and that school is Kansas State University, the reason I’m so interested in K.S.U is for their exclusive Architecture program that has an acceptance rate of somewhere around a 20% acceptance rate. Anyway so far all i have received is a 1,000 dollar scholarship which i am grateful for but i was hoping for more to help take some of the pressure off of my parents who have graciously offered to pay for my college. Is there something I could be doing or should have been doing to receive more?</p>
<p>Thanks In Advance,</p>
<p>Spencer S.</p>
<p>Re American U–I can’t speak to this year, but two years ago when my D was admitted, many non-NMF students with stats like those cited by disnurse, including my D, got $20K Dean’s Scholarships. AU is in good shape financially, so I can only guess that as applications have increased, the school has been able to raise the bar for its merit awards.</p>
<p>D has heard from 2 of the 9 colleges she applied to. Hoping for more!</p>
<p>SAT : 2160…
SAT 2: Lit.- 800; US Hist.- 650 ((didn’t submit to the first 2 schools)
ACT: 33 (didn’t submit to the first 2 schools)
GPA: 3.9 weighted; hs only weights grades; have no idea what it would be unweighted
NMF: commended student
URM : no
AP: scholar</p>
<p>So far:
Northeastern- $20,000 / year (Dean’s scholarship)
Simmons- $15,000 / year (Dean’s scholarship)</p>
<p>But again, as someone posted earlier, there is more to these merit decisions than just the numbers–ECs, essays, etc all count in how these schools award merit aid.</p>
<p>KSUArchitect</p>
<p>You may not be doing anything wrong. Do you know if KSU awards much merit money? Do you know if the awards are by dept or from the school? Some schools don’t award much money.</p>
<p>ECs and essays do count for competitive scholarahips, but not for assured scholarships. If KSU doesn’t have assured scholarships, then that may be the issue.</p>
<p>It sounds like you only applied to one school. the people who are listing their awards above have applied to multiple schools…some that give merit and some that don’t give any or don’t give much.</p>
<p>Me: (HS Senior, girl)</p>
<p>SAT: 2270
GPA: 4.66 Weighted
SATII: German 800, Math II 720, Lit 770
URM: no
NMSF, haven’t gotten a rejection letter so hopefully NMF?
AP: Scholar (Spanish Language 5, German 5, USH 5)</p>
<p>Tulane: 22k
Alabama: the same scholarship that mom2collegekids described much better than I ever could…
St Andrews: none (international student)
The other 9 schools - haven’t heard back yet 8)</p>
<p>Son</p>
<p>ACT: 33
GPA: 4.375
No class rank
Intended major: Theater and Film Studies</p>
<p>Willamette $15,000 /yr</p>
<p>My son is thrilled with the acceptance and we are very happy they offered him money. It is interesting to note that poster #42’s son had lower stats but was offered $17000 by Willamette. I think it goes to show that grades are not everything.</p>
<p>American has put more emphasis into merit scholarships than most universities. </p>
<p>FYI - The U. does have a couple hundred million in debts, including some bad investments in high risk swaps. Their financial statements are available on their website, if you do a google search.</p>
<p>Well I got the Board of Trustees Scholarship and the Science Scholarship from Regis Univ.
($15,000/yr and full tuition respectively.)</p>
<p>Univ. of Denver also gave me a University Scholarship which is $13,000/yr.</p>