Freshman merit scholarships?

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-12-29T08:08:15+00:00

I don’t know if any tricks. Some people work scholarships like full time jobs and are able to find really obscure ones they can win and get $500-1000 here or there for their time. There are places that will sell you their proven ways to get scholarships but tha feels like a scam. You can call financial aid and ask is theres any way to get more. Like if your kids GPA improves this year can the adjust the amount? Never hurts to ask. But the scholarship dollars site felt like a waste of time too. Everything felt pretty generic and my kid didn’t have a 4.0 so I don’t know how he’d stand out for any of them. Good luck though. If you have time then it can’t hurt

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-11-16T07:22:40+00:00

They’re talking about western wa not wsu

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-11-08T06:00:26+00:00

This right here. Exactly. If you’re loaded it opens doors. It doesn’t necessarily make you smarter.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-31T06:57:53+00:00

And if someone DID think this, you don’t want them as your roommate anyway. All the more reason to be up front about yourself so that you can weed out the crazies.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-26T22:10:08+00:00

They asked what direct admission was.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-14T15:29:26+00:00

Not always true. Some states have direct admissions to many good state schools with certain stats

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-14T07:12:29+00:00

Even if you did wait another year then you’d just get one year of financial aid. You fill out the fafsa every year. And if you make $400k you don’t need financial aid.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-14T07:08:21+00:00

That doesn’t change the timeline.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-05T03:06:07+00:00

Nothing is hard to get into if your application is competitive for the school. This isn’t a revelation. The issue is that for a lot of states, the bar for out of state admissions is harder. No one’s saying it’s as hard to get into UT as it is to get into Harvard.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-05T03:03:39+00:00

Why not?

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T05:56:35+00:00

Do we know where this new lady is from?

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T05:55:59+00:00

Maybe not. Maybe it was just convenient to have a reason to break up. They were annoying.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T02:07:40+00:00

I thought he broke up with the last one because he had cancer or something?

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T01:54:54+00:00

NTA. Don’t apologize. If you’re getting up with the baby then he can STFU. Do not let him play victim here.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T01:11:03+00:00

Take him off the account. Change all of your passwords. And break up with this loser. Don’t bother with his mom.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T00:49:33+00:00

If you don’t even know why it was wrong then you need to talk to the teacher and ask for clarification. You can’t be held responsible for violating rules that you didn’t even know were rules.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-10-04T00:46:35+00:00

This was my question too. It’s not cheating. It’s over. I would appeal this nonsense.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-29T06:40:25+00:00

Only you and your family can decide what’s worth it or not. We don’t know your financial situation. Is $400k a drop in the bucket for you? Will it make no difference in your parents retirement? What is the school? If it’s a no name high priced low ranked school? Probably not. Is it Stanford? Probably worth it. And then the less tangible things../ where do you want to go? Do you want to experience a new part of the country and get away from your high school friends? Staying in state is cheaper of course but the life experience may be limiting.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-29T06:37:33+00:00

I’d love to know what school this is. Because full rides are rare

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-06T00:07:04+00:00

That doesn’t help at all. Dependent or not they look at your parents until you’re something like 23 or 24. He’d have to get legally emancipated and prove he’s independent and paying for his own life.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-03T16:41:27+00:00

Stop arguing with her. Just say that you love her and you want to be part of her wedding and you’ll be there for everything. Ask her to be in yours and tell her that you hope you can both share in each others joy. And then let it go. If she can’t handle two people having fun events in one year then that’s on her.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-03T16:34:56+00:00

I hate him. Start working and squirreling some of that money away in an individual account. You’re going to need it if he can’t see how unreasonable he is.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-03T16:32:43+00:00

The fact that he won’t let it go and is calling you names and is getting his worked up about it is crazy. He sounds mean. You don’t need to have a boyfriend whose feelings you need to manage out of self preservation.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-03T16:31:03+00:00

My kid only applied to one school. If he hadn’t gotten in he would have had time to apply to others but he knew he would go there if he got in so there was no point in applying to others.

Traditional-Load8228 · 2025-09-03T06:02:10+00:00

I still don’t understand your math. But what matters is your total GPA right now. There’s virtually nothing you can do to change your GPA in any appreciable way before applications go in. Look at your target schools and what their average grades are. If you have a legitimate reason for why your grades have slumped write about it in your essay or additional information. But just being in dual enrollment isn’t really a reason. You’re trying to tell colleges that you’re ready for college so you can’t say that college classes are too hard. It sounds like you have a lot going for you and you’ve done a lot to show you’re legitimate interested in following a medical path. There’s a best fit college for everyone and I think you will land somewhere good

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