merit scholarships!

[brouhaha1]

I have heard (not sure if its true) - does one's chance of a merit scholarship increase with applications to more schools? Does a school get to see how many schools or what schools an applicant may have applied to? Perhaps in a chance to lure the applicant to their school (and keep him from going elsewhere), they will will offer (more) money?

THanks so much everyone - BTW this forum rocks... if only I knew of it years ago!!!

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[ChymeChancellor]

I have heard (not sure if its true) - does one's chance of a merit scholarship increase with applications to more schools? Does a school get to see how many schools or what schools an applicant may have applied to? Perhaps in a chance to lure the applicant to their school (and keep him from going elsewhere), they will will offer (more) money?

THanks so much everyone - BTW this forum rocks... if only I knew of it years ago!!!

This is not true. Schools can only see where you have been accepted after a certain date... I think May 15. Either way, merit scholarships are few and far between so don't plan on relying on getting one.

 

[brouhaha1]

This is not true. Schools can only see where you have been accepted after a certain date... I think May 15. Either way, merit scholarships are few and far between so don't plan on relying on getting one.

thanks - bump!

 

[Dr Durden]

The people who win these are going to be accepted virtually everywhere. Adcoms know this and I can't see them waiting around to confirm this fact before they ante up.

Check out this thread from a few days ago on big time scholarships:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=300846.