ShorePony wrote:Our daughter also received her admission letter as a Distinguished Scholar. Very nice incentive that we weren't anticipating. Apparently, Cox admission decision comes in this week. Waiting on numerous other schools but always exciting when the first admission letter arrives.
How much tuition does the Distinguished Scholarship cover?
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Went to direct admit to Cox this year vs. just 100 BBA Scholars and making the others transfer in after a sufficiently high GPA. Over the last 15-20 years, that qualifying GPA has risen from 2.7 to 3.5 (?) last year. A concern is the number of applicants that are going Cox or bust. How will that impact the yield and other majors that had strong students stick with their major instead of going to Cox?
tristatecoog wrote:Went to direct admit to Cox this year vs. just 100 BBA Scholars and making the others transfer in after a sufficiently high GPA. Over the last 15-20 years, that qualifying GPA has risen from 2.7 to 3.5 (?) last year. A concern is the number of applicants that are going Cox or bust. How will that impact the yield and other majors that had strong students stick with their major instead of going to Cox?
I assume they must be weighing against students who chose other school’s over SMU when they worried about not being guaranteed admission into Cox from the start?
AfricanMustang, based on College Confidential posts:
2nd Century: $20K per year (borderline Cox direct admit) ~31 ACT Dist Scholar: $25K per year (Cox direct) 32-34 ACT with 3.4-3.8 UW GPA Provost: $30K per year (Cox $) 34-36 ACT with near 4.0 GPA....many get presidential scholar invites
My advice for your nephew. Choose a few top schools and show significant demonstrated interest in each. If parents are willing to go with the school's EFC (estimated financial contribution), apply early decision to the top school.
If nephew has Distinguished Scholar stats and above, there's potential for more money from Cox, Lyle and Meadows. There are also Dedman Scholars (20/yr?) that get great perks.
A Frisco student has large $$ offers at SMU, TCU and Baylor. He's undecided because SMU has a reputation as a rich kid party school. Will he find "his people"? I told his dad that TCU is more of a party school and is considerably lower ranked (comp sci). There is a wide range of people at Lyle so they're going to admitted students day to check out the fit. People party at Rice too.
From early Feb: A former colleague's son (Latino) who has a $25K per year to SMU plus $5-10K from Lyle. His dad (HBS grad from Mexico) said the son was concerned that he might not fit in at SMU because he's not into Greek and rather introverted. High stat guy and leader at an excellent north Dallas school. His other choices are TCU, A&M and Baylor so I told the dad that TCU is at least as Greek and not nearly as well regarded academically. Baylor isn't well regarded for computer science. A&M is big but a good value. It may be up to me to work this guy.
Update: Son visited SMU during Monday's admitted students event. "He really liked it. He is seriously leaning towards SMU. Great school, program, students and professors." Yeah!
Maybe it didn't hurt to be coming off a home win over #20 Houston on Saturday night. As of a couple weeks ago, seven kids from my daughter's school have committed to SMU. Nine to TCU. Hogs and OU with over 20 and UT #1 with 31.
Friend's son committed to SMU over A&M for Engineering. Go Ponies!
He said that TCU and Baylor were putting on a full court press with calls, letters, etc. because they are trying to build up their engineering and STEM programs. However, at this time, they are too fledgling to give serious consideration even with lots of $$.
tristatecoog wrote:Friend's son committed to SMU over A&M for Engineering. Go Ponies!
He said that TCU and Baylor were putting on a full court press with calls, letters, etc. because they are trying to build up their engineering and STEM programs. However, at this time, they are too fledgling to give serious consideration even with lots of $$.
Nice.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
ΓÇò C.G. Jung
NavyCrimson wrote:Selecting SMU engineering over A$M's is quite a compliment for SMU's program. I always thought the Aggies had one of the best schools in the country.
So does SMU.
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
