Student accepted into 27 schools, offered millions in scholarships

[rachel83az]

https://www.breezyscroll.com/world/gifte...olarships/

Wasn't there another story recently about a student accepted into 50 schools or something like that? I seem to remember that there were maybe $2M in scholarships for that particular student, but I can't find the thread.

[LevelUP]

https://www.breezyscroll.com/world/gifte...olarships/

Wasn't there another story recently about a student accepted into 50 schools or something like that? I seem to remember that there were maybe $2M in scholarships for that particular student, but I can't find the thread.

That was this thread
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...0-colleges

[rachel83az]

You have better search-fu than I do, it appears! I searched for quite a long time and found nothing.

[LevelUP]

You have better search-fu than I do, it appears! I searched for quite a long time and found nothing.

lol. I just remember bjcheung77 wrote that thread and look at the history of threads bjcheung77 started.

[dfrecore]

That $4M in scholarships is completely misleading. Each school is offering something to go there, which they're adding in. I'm sure he has SOME outside scholarships which will allow him to go anywhere, but lumping those all in together is just silly.

[rachel83az]

It still averages out to over $100k per school, which means he's most likely got at least a few full-ride scholarships.

[dfrecore]

It still averages out to over $100k per school, which means he's most likely got at least a few full-ride scholarships.

That's a much better thing to say than the total amount.  Just calling them all "scholarships" makes it sound as if he has $4M to go to any school he wants, when that is certainly not the case.  "Out of 27 schools, 23 offered him partial scholarships and 4 offered him full-ride scholarships" (making those numbers up) would give a more complete picture of what he was looking at.

[LevelUP]

We have had some people on this forum that got straight-A's in high school, have very high SAT scores, and couldn't get any free ride out-of-state scholarships because they come from a middle-class families.

Because out-of-state school is so expensive, even with the scholarship, it doesn't save them any money versus going in-state. 

That is why they call it the middle-class squeeze.

It's a bit misleading to think that if a student gets straight A's and gets accepted into an Ivey league school, they can afford to pay the tuition if they don't come from a poor or rich family.

[freeloader]

More power to the person, I suppose. They got their 15 minutes of fame and it wasn't for a TikTok dance or something similar.

These sorts of stories always make me think about the high school my wife attended. It was a relatively small (100 or so in each graduating class) STEM magnet school that ALWAYS led the state in scholarship dollars awarded to its students. They were very proud of this and included this fact in many ads, press releases, etc. I went to her graduation and it felt like every person who spoke mentioned it multiple times. This despite the fact that there were schools that graduated 500 kids in each class in the state. Her high school required every student to apply to 5 or 6 colleges (don't recall which), including one in-state. For reference, 3 or 4 kids from her class went to MIT, 2 went to CalTech, she had friends who went to Yale, Duke, and Stanford, and the majority went to out-of-state, elite colleges and universities. The "dumb" kids went to places like Georgia Tech (out of state) and the state's flagship university on a nice scholarship. The high school said they wanted every student to consider an in-state school, but they also were honest about the fact that virtually everybody got a full-ride to their chosen in-state school, which translated into more scholarship dollars "earned", even if very few students attended those schools and few of those dollars actually were used.

[sanantone]

We have had some people on this forum that got straight-A's in high school, have very high SAT scores, and couldn't get any free ride out-of-state scholarships because they come from a middle-class families.

Because out-of-state school is so expensive, even with the scholarship, it doesn't save them any money versus going in-state. 

That is why they call it the middle-class squeeze.

It's a bit misleading to think that if a student gets straight A's and gets accepted into an Ivey league school, they can afford to pay the tuition if they don't come from a poor or rich family.

Several of the Ivy Plus schools cover tuition for families that earn up to $125k, which is upper middle class. Some of the public universities in Texas cover families up to $60k, which is middle class and close to the median household income in Texas.

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This kid got into some highly selective schools, though. Sometimes, these stories involve applicants who were accepted by dozens of schools with acceptance rates above 50%. Of course if you apply to 100 less selective schools, you're going to get into a bunch of them.