I'm curious if anyone has experience with this. My sister says UH wants students to make a commitment for scholarships by April 1st. University of North Texas says they won't announce scholarship offers until April 1st. How can you wait to here from UNT, but not lose your chance at a nice UH offer? Something seems wrong.
This was a similar situation that happened to my little sister... She got a full scholarship from Houston Baptist with housing...but really wanted to wait for Texas to respond...HBU basically said, you either accept or we give it to someone else... 2 weeks after she accepted HBU's offer, she was given a full ride to UT... This is a really tricky situation, but you never know how things may or may not work out. My advice... go where you get the most money.
That's the whole point. Schools want you to commit before you have more options because then they are stuck waiting on you and can't offer those spots to anyone else.
Right, obviously that's why there is a deadline, but only explains UH. that doesnt explain it from UNT's side. Why would they wait to offer scholarships when other schools already proferred them
She got a 15,000 scholarship from the HSLSR and UT covered the rest of her tuition and board...Now this was almost 7 years back...Not so sure how things are in terms of college education/cost...but Im sure it stinks.
right, can you? in this case it would be pulling out of UHs Honor's Program if UNT delivers a scholarship later UNT is the preferred school in this case, but announces scholarships after UHs deadline to accept
I would imagine that those who accept have to send in some kind of non-refundable deposit. So if you get a better offer elsewhere, you can withdraw but you'll lose that deposit.
Have to evaluate how likely UNT is to give the scholarship... If you think that UNT will more than likely give a reasonable amount of scholarship money, you should wait. If not, taking the UH Honors program offer is prudent...I dont think there is any harm in accepting an offer and then later declining it as better offers come along.
That's for a spot in the school, no? And not the scholarship, itself? That would be a crummy scholarship, if you had to put down a deposit on it. Back in '08 when I was a senior deciding on which colleges, I don't think any college set hard and fast deadlines on scholarships. But I did get a full ride to A&M, mostly on need-based scholarships.
HP, I would tell your sister to accept UH's offer and then wait for UNT's offer (if any), to come in before deciding. Pulling out of a spot after a commitment might be a dick move, but in the end, you have to worry about your own.
you can pull out of a scholarship fairly late, you can say yes i will take your scholarship in March, then in May, before classes begin tell them never mind, they will have to find someone else to give the money to, but that's not your problem, accept all the scholarships you are offered, but notify them once you know you are not going to end up accepting it
