Leveraging offer before TMDSAS match

[FutureDrOcean]

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I have a 25% tuition scholarship from UT-Austin and so far nothing from UTSW. My TMDSAS first-choice is UTSW. Come Jan 20, I submit preferences for the match and that's my last chance to choose, as I come out of the match with only one offer. Early January, would it be effective and appropriate to ask UTSW, politely, if they could make this decision easier financial-wise?


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[Cawolf]

Did you pre-match to both?

Then yes, it would be appropriate.

 

[sliceofbread136]

I didn't get scholarship info until sometime like march if I remember correctly and it ended up being ~10k per year. So they can be pretty late about it

 

[FutureDrOcean]

Did you pre-match to both?

Then yes, it would be appropriate.

Yes prematched both.

I didn't get scholarship info until sometime like march if I remember correctly and it ended up being ~10k per year. So they can be pretty late about it

This is what I'm worried about. Very hypothetical, but what if UTSW in March would give me 50%, but now that I ask for 25% they only give me 25% total knowing that's all they need to do to be competitive.


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[Cawolf]

Very hypothetical, but what if UTSW in March would give me 50%, but now that I ask for 25% they only give me 25% total knowing that's all they need to do to be competitive.

Tuition is so low in Texas anyways. Would a total of $10,000 really sway your decision?

I would say don't ask for anything specific, just let them know you have a scholarship and would really like to choose them. You don't have "leverage" past your current offers (IMO).

 

[sliceofbread136]

Yes prematched both.



This is what I'm worried about. Very hypothetical, but what if UTSW in March would give me 50%, but now that I ask for 25% they only give me 25% total knowing that's all they need to do to be competitive.


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Don't think so, I got the max scholarship they give after I had already accepted their offer of admission. I think they just have a bundle of money they have to give away

 

[FutureDrOcean]

Who should this be addressed to? Admissions? Admissions Dean? Member of Adm Committee who contacted me personally to congratulate, said he was one who reviewed my file?