Why doesn't the "Full-Tuition" presidential scholarship cover full tuition at the Tyler School of Ar

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The presidential scholarship award my daughter received in November came in a letter that said that she had been accepted to the Tyler School of Art and offered a “Full-Tuition” scholarship. Now that we are ready to enroll, it seems that she will have to pay $7000 worth of tuition as her scholarship only covers $25000 of the $32000. Why would they use the words “full-tuition” and then not have the scholarship cover tuition? I understand that a full tuition scholarship doesn’t cover room and board, but why doesn’t it cover full tuition?

I will be in contacting the school, but I want to know if anyone else is having this problem, or has any explanations or suggestions for me.

Thanks

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The scholarship only covers tuition, so that 32,000 may include room and board and other fees which aren’t covered by the scholarship.

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If you are in state $32,000 is the average price including tuition +room and board. The scholarship will only cover the tuition part. If you are oos maybe tuition is higher than the scholarship, idk oos price.

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Thank you for your responses. The OOS tuition at the Tyler School of Art is almost $32000 while OOS tuition at Temple university college is $25000. Her acceptance letter said she got into Tyler and had a full tuition scholarship. However the full-tuition scholarship is for $25000. Has any one else run into this situation?

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We realized the full tuition scholarship does not cover fees. For engineering, that is $790 a year. Use the link below to calculate your tuition and fees. If the amount on your award letter is not the same as just the tuition portion, you will need to call financial aid to figure out why. Maybe they accidentally only awarded you the Provost Scholarship?

https://bursar.temple.edu/tuition-and-fees/tuition-rates

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@palm715 I see engineering tuition is also higher than 25k (27 or almost 28?).

Is amount fixed at 25 for you also or are you a resident?

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D is OOS and the Presidential Scholarship as outlined in the official aid offer covered the engineering tuition but not the fees.

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Full-time Undergraduate 16,642 $ **26,892 **$
Full-time Undergraduate including University services fee 17,432 27,682

So sounds like engineering covers at least 26,892?

@firsttimelong_time based on the link @palm715 provided, there are 3 separate levels of tuition in Tyler school of art. The one you mentioned seems to be for fine arts while architecture is around 28k and there are other majors which are less than 25k.

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Thank you all for your responses, the information was helpful for my upcoming conversation with financial aid.

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how did this work out? i wondered how Temple handled this with various Temple colleges having their own tuition rates.

i am not happy to hear this and this is first i have heard of full tuition not covering a student’s full tuition. Temple has been tweaking their scholarships around and this may be one of the tweaks. However, this should have been brought to your attention once your daughter was accepted to Tyler. i did learn full tuition only covers 18 hours a semester after my son enrolled but that is a different issue (he is not a Tyler student and is instate).

again, let us know how this works out. it would be good info for future applicants to be aware of this problem up front.