For all I know, Duke scholarships has reached out to their current full-ride offers and asked if they plan on coming so they can go ahead and award them elsewhere
Yeah, that's how I'm leaning. The odds of getting an extension back from BOTH of them this late is low and looks bad. If they said the 24th, that makes me think they're working something up
Also I'm kinda like...they could have just sent me my new offer on the 24th. I have no idea why they sent me this email yesterday to tease the full-ride if they didn't expect something to change
I don't think there's harm in asking for an extension at UVA by telling them you are up for a full-ride scholarship at Duke but possibly won't know until after UVA's deposit deadline.
It's all so non-transparent, ugh. And I want to believe they have my best interest at heart but why would they, as far as I know they don't HAVE to give out a certain number of Mordecai's
@Fireblade09: Yes, Duke likely has to give out whatever number of Mordecais. Any portion of the endowment that funds Mordecais will be restricted (can't be spent on other stuff) and to some extent donor funds are use-it-or-lose-it - if you don't spend the money, it's hard to go and ask a donor to renew their gift
i think i only have around $20k of ug debt so paying sticker on top of that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world but it would have to be at an upper t14 for me tbh