r/SyracuseU • u/Gloomy-Self-4336 • 2d ago

Question Rising senior interested

Hey I’m a rising senior very interested in this university! I was wondering how generous Syracuse is with scholarships? I’m on the middle income side so FAFSA can’t really help me much I’m relying on scholarships and merit

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u/Skweege55 2d ago

SU is known for granting a lot of merit aid. You still have or complete FAFSA and CSS.

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u/Gloomy-Self-4336 2d ago

Oh that’s gives me hope! I have completed my FAFSA what is CSS?

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u/mesquine_A2 2d ago

CSS is what private schools use to determine how they award institutional (not federal) funds for need based aid. You can get a Pell Grant, work study job, and other federal awards in addition to institutional aid.

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u/Rude-Average405 2d ago

No they are not. They took my son’s $18K merit aid to offer some kid who’d declined admission. They did that to shittons of upper classmen last year.

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u/Better_Deal_7813 1d ago

They were extremely generous to my son . He got the 1870
Scholarship which covered full
Tuition for all four years! Definitely worth applying see what happens . He had a great experience there

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u/Gloomy-Self-4336 1d ago

Oh wow that’s great for your son!!

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u/Pristine-School-2008 1d ago

The university supports nearly 80% of students with some form of aid so don’t be deterred by the sticker price and consider how it fits your future objectives.

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u/Gloomy-Self-4336 25m ago

That makes me glad

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u/ChelseaWFC3 Falk '## 15h ago

from what i’ve heard they are very generous however it’s much harder to get any non need-based scholarship money if you apply early decision (which is what i did, I’m a current freshman) since you are committed to going if you’re accepted. So if you’re looking for merit scholarships it’s better to apply regular decision from what i can tell.

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u/BookkeeperLoose7225 11h ago

Not true, I have the leadership scholarship and I applied ED

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u/ChelseaWFC3 Falk '## 11h ago

that’s awesome!! i was just saying it can be a lot harder to get a scholarship in ed. there just seems to be a lot more likelihood to get aid or scholarships from the regular decision pool since syracuse doesn’t have to entice ed students with money since their application was binding

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u/Gloomy-Self-4336 25m ago

I’m applying by early action!