What HSPT score for Merit money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD at AHC was selected for Honors and had HSPT score in the high 80s

Did they get merit $ with that score or just honors? Honors are great, don't get me wrong, but I'm curious what AHC's line for merit $ is.

[Anonymous]

RE AHC - I believe all scholars get merit

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a Presidential scholarship that's just merit and is $5k/year. Mine had 99th but I've learned from this board not everyone with 99th gets it.

I do wish they’d say how many Presidential scholarships they offer in each class. # or %

In my DS’s class it was about 20.

How do you know this? I consider myself pretty plugged in and couldn’t possibly guess, let alone figure out where to find this. Did they announce it somewhere?

[Anonymous]

Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That’s why merit awards and financial aid are different. 🤔 If my kid got all A’s and a high HSPT, it shouldn't matter what my income is because he still earned it on his own merits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That is what merit money is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a Presidential scholarship that's just merit and is $5k/year. Mine had 99th but I've learned from this board not everyone with 99th gets it.

I do wish they’d say how many Presidential scholarships they offer in each class. # or %

In my DS’s class it was about 20.

How do you know this? I consider myself pretty plugged in and couldn’t possibly guess, let alone figure out where to find this. Did they announce it somewhere?

My DS graduated, but when he was there, there was an annual publication that listed various endowed funds and included the names of the Presidential Scholars in each of the current classes for that year. I doubt it’s on the website if they still publish it since it lists individual names but each class had between 15-25 recipients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga has a Presidential scholarship that's just merit and is $5k/year. Mine had 99th but I've learned from this board not everyone with 99th gets it.

Why is this the case? How do they decide who does and doesn’t get the merit scholarship?

Gonzaga admissions guy said all HSPT sub scores above 90 percent and all As in 7th grade and 8th grade so far.

[Anonymous]

98th percentile - got merit from Georgetown Visitation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That’s why merit awards and financial aid are different. 🤔 If my kid got all A’s and a high HSPT, it shouldn't matter what my income is because he still earned it on his own merits.

Doesn't matter. And this is why there is not that many schools handing out notably large "merit scholarships". Fancy schools need the people who can easily pay, to pay. Giving rich kids major academic scholarships is throwing needed money away.

And your kid is not particularly special getting all As and high HSPT. Mine had all that. Per one of the ADs that I knew socially, he had the highest score among applicants. We got essentially the same generic merit offers everywhere, whatever the top tier at the school was. Incl Gonzaga's Presidential award. These were all nice, but modest 5K-6kish type awards if I recall correctly. And that is because many of the kids that get these come from well off families who really don't need them. Kids that need more will get FA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That’s why merit awards and financial aid are different. 🤔 If my kid got all A’s and a high HSPT, it shouldn't matter what my income is because he still earned it on his own merits.

Doesn't matter. And this is why there is not that many schools handing out notably large "merit scholarships". Fancy schools need the people who can easily pay, to pay. Giving rich kids major academic scholarships is throwing needed money away.

And your kid is not particularly special getting all As and high HSPT. Mine had all that. Per one of the ADs that I knew socially, he had the highest score among applicants. We got essentially the same generic merit offers everywhere, whatever the top tier at the school was. Incl Gonzaga's Presidential award. These were all nice, but modest 5K-6kish type awards if I recall correctly. And that is because many of the kids that get these come from well off families who really don't need them. Kids that need more will get FA.

I respectfully disagree. My child received merit scholarship offers from three schools, and for the one we attend, it has been a real help to our family. We fall in the sandwich between not qualifying for meaningful financial aid but not having income/assets so high that $5K or $10K, depending on the school, isn't a meaningful factor in our choice and help to our daily lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That’s why merit awards and financial aid are different. 🤔 If my kid got all A’s and a high HSPT, it shouldn't matter what my income is because he still earned it on his own merits.

Doesn't matter. And this is why there is not that many schools handing out notably large "merit scholarships". Fancy schools need the people who can easily pay, to pay. Giving rich kids major academic scholarships is throwing needed money away.

And your kid is not particularly special getting all As and high HSPT. Mine had all that. Per one of the ADs that I knew socially, he had the highest score among applicants. We got essentially the same generic merit offers everywhere, whatever the top tier at the school was. Incl Gonzaga's Presidential award. These were all nice, but modest 5K-6kish type awards if I recall correctly. And that is because many of the kids that get these come from well off families who really don't need them. Kids that need more will get FA.

I respectfully disagree. My child received merit scholarship offers from three schools, and for the one we attend, it has been a real help to our family. We fall in the sandwich between not qualifying for meaningful financial aid but not having income/assets so high that $5K or $10K, depending on the school, isn't a meaningful factor in our choice and help to our daily lives.

I haven't seen anyone say that merit money needed to be a certain amount to be a value add.
To the point you acknowledge, if families need FA, that is separately available.
If you don't need the $, it's still a great point of pride for the kids.
If you are in the middle, it's fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its tough in this area to justify handing out merit money with no consideration of income. There is literally no reason to give a 50% scholarship for his 99% HSPT to a kid whose parents make 800K. And there are a LOT of kids like that around here.

That’s why merit awards and financial aid are different. 🤔 If my kid got all A’s and a high HSPT, it shouldn't matter what my income is because he still earned it on his own merits.

Doesn't matter. And this is why there is not that many schools handing out notably large "merit scholarships". Fancy schools need the people who can easily pay, to pay. Giving rich kids major academic scholarships is throwing needed money away.

And your kid is not particularly special getting all As and high HSPT. Mine had all that. Per one of the ADs that I knew socially, he had the highest score among applicants. We got essentially the same generic merit offers everywhere, whatever the top tier at the school was. Incl Gonzaga's Presidential award. These were all nice, but modest 5K-6kish type awards if I recall correctly. And that is because many of the kids that get these come from well off families who really don't need them. Kids that need more will get FA.

I respectfully disagree. My child received merit scholarship offers from three schools, and for the one we attend, it has been a real help to our family. We fall in the sandwich between not qualifying for meaningful financial aid but not having income/assets so high that $5K or $10K, depending on the school, isn't a meaningful factor in our choice and help to our daily lives.

I haven't seen anyone say that merit money needed to be a certain amount to be a value add.
To the point you acknowledge, if families need FA, that is separately available.
If you don't need the $, it's still a great point of pride for the kids.
If you are in the middle, it's fantastic.

If you read this whole thread, you will see people who say merit is a waste at private schools when given to students who don't qualify for financial aid.

[Anonymous]

https://www.bishopoconnell.org/admissions/scholarships
OConnell and Knights recognition are the 2 HSPT ones.

DJO publishes theirs.

[Anonymous]

DC rec’d scholarship at SJC- HSPT was 99%. We are a high middle income and $20,000/ yr with 3 kids in school was nice to have.