<p>What happened to Indiana? SoCal, you know what, I think you will do great wherever you decide to go because you really know how to pick out the positives from every college!</p>
<p>“It’s not only the fact that IU’s business program is great, I just love everything about IU. The campus looks absolutely amazing, and I really want to experience a new part of the country during my college years – and for some reason I think the Midwest would be a great fit for me. The Big 10 atmosphere is exactly what I want. I love football more than anything, and I would attend every game cheering on the Hoosiers. Basketball and soccer are also very important to me. School spirit is huge for me, and I feel it’s a necessity in my future college. IU was also rated the #6 college sports town, and I would love to be in a city like that. And a college town is really appealing to me. I’m really into the whole college experience thing, and I think it would be nice to have every student and everything synonymous with the college. I’m also very interested in sports management (my potential minor) as well, and IU has a great program. And my dream is to work for ESPN, and Bristol, CT is pretty close to Indiana. I’m also interested in being on the school paper. I’m currently the entertainment editor for my high school, and supposedly Indiana has a great newspaper. Indiana was also on Princeton Review’s list for happiest students, and campusdirt.com raves about IU’s student body. I’m also interested in experiencing the cold and the snow…I want to pick up snowboarding and skiing. And I love how IU is a huge school, but with a community feeling. I’m not a fan of commuter schools. Every time someone asks why would you want to go to Indiana…I just list a billion reasons, bc I know it’s where I’m supposed to go.”</p>
<p>Indiana is still my #1, and want to go there more than anything. However, there is a chance that IU will cost way too much, so I just want to make sure I love my most affordable options as well. But yeah I’m almost positive I’m going to IU, unless my financial aid package really sucks.</p>
<p>What Portland is likely to do is use your scholarship as the substitute for the need based grant. Either you get the grant, or the scholarship. </p>
<p>So your financial aid package is likely to be something like this:</p>
<p>Scholarship - 10,000
Grant - 4,000
Loans - 4,000
Work/Study - 3,000
Total - 21,000</p>
<p>They aren’t going to give you 14,000 in grants + 10,000 in scholarships, schools usually give you one or the other.</p>
<p>And Bristol, CT is absolutely no where near Indiana.</p>
<p>My scholarship is a merit scholarship, so technically it isn’t in the category of need-based scholarship or grant…so yeah, I’m going with what I think. </p>
<p>And to me, IU is pretty close to Bristol. A 14hr drive doesn’t seem like a huge distance to me. Especially since all of my other schools are on the West Coast…so since I’m interested in ESPN, that distance is very small compared to my other options.</p>
<p>SoCal, when colleges do their financial aid packages, they include merit scholarships in them and classify them as need-based scholarships/grants. When you get letters in the mail from colleges notifying you of financial aid, they will list loans, work-study in addition to your merit scholarships, and whatever need-based grants they choose to award you. There is no such thing as a need-based scholarship, as by definition a need-based award given to you based on financial need is a grant. Scholarships are meant to award academic merit. When a school lists that the average scholarship/grant is 14,000, that means that the combination of merit scholarships and need-based grants that the average student gets is 14,000.</p>