Scholarship not showing on my offer letter

[NickL]

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Hi guys,

I recently received an acceptance offer from Midwestern University Podiatry School. When I received the call from the faculty member, he said my offer came with some amount of Scholarship package. However, when I look at my offer letter, it does not mention anything about the Scholarship amount I would receive.

Does that happen to anyone who got accepted to Midwestern, or should I just call them to ask?

Thank you!

 

[Feli]

Absolutely call the school.
You need your scholarship amount AND its renewability requirements in writing. Money always matters.
This is likely just a miscommunication or oversight, but this is no different from a job sign bonus or your wage.

With rapid tuition inflation, that's the general logic for podiatry school - or most highly expensive grad programs: get the best value you can on tuition plus COL minus any scholarships (which are reasonably renewable with 3.0gpa or top third rank, etc).

You have to try to compare among podiatry schools to get the best ROI that you possibly can... that starts with lowest grad debt for the DPM degree. Most podi schools will offer more and bigger scholarships later in the cycle as they have been underfilled in the past few cycles. The newest pod schools add a lot more seats and more podiatrists. It is honestly not wrong to get acceptance to another pod school you'd be ok with (you can surely get into most if you got into AZPodiatry) and then ask original pod school if they want to match the cost of another (tuition minus scholarship). What might not seem to matter much now (sign a page and get money) will be very important later on (total loans, interest rate, etc to pay back). GL

 

[NickL]

Absolutely call the school.
You need your scholarship amount AND its renewability requirements in writing. Money always matters.
This is likely just a miscommunication or oversight, but this is no different from a job sign bonus or your wage.

With rapid tuition inflation, that's the general logic for podiatry school - or most highly expensive grad programs: get the best value you can on tuition plus COL minus any scholarships (which are reasonably renewable with 3.0gpa or top third rank, etc).

You have to try to compare among podiatry schools to get the best ROI that you possibly can... that starts with lowest grad debt for the DPM degree. Most podi schools will offer more and bigger scholarships later in the cycle as they have been underfilled in the past few cycles. The newest pod schools add a lot more seats and more podiatrists. It is honestly not wrong to get acceptance to another pod school you'd be ok with (you can surely get into most if you got into AZPodiatry) and then ask original pod school if they want to match the cost of another (tuition minus scholarship). What might not seem to matter much now (sign a page and get money) will be very important later on (total loans, interest rate, etc to pay back). GL

Thank you so much for all the answers !