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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid lost his merit aid but wasn’t a great student. If your kid is a good student and mostly got As in high school hopefully he should be fine. Talk to him about it.[/quote]

My kid got nearly all As in high school.

She is now in a big ten engineering program where she is above average according to the admission stats.  Her merit aid continuation requirement is fairly low (good standing).

She is currently a B+ student (thank you, humanities elective!) with mostly Bs in her technical classes.  Statistically she is well into the top half of the class but not in the top quarter -- she and I looked carefully at the distribution statistics for each class.

I'm telling you this detail because although I would like my kid to have done better, she is proud of her effort and her grades.  I would not be confident that a freshman engineering student would do much better after watching my child this past fall. Maybe your kid will, but you aren't worried about that here.

She will get into her major, and she will keep her merit aid.  We turned down other schools where these kind of grades might not have resulted in that outcome.[/quote]

May I ask which Big 10 Engineering gives merit aid, please?  And did that bring your out of state tuition to your state flagship?  Thank you.[/quote]

It brought tuition pretty close, but transportation is more expensive.  [/quote]

I should add, the state flagship would probably not have accepted her to not the engineering school. She didn’t apply because we weren’t impressed anyway — fine school, but not for my kid. The question I would ask any high school kid to answer if looking at a tough major is “will you be happy at that school if your major doesn’t work out?”  [/quote]

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