Links to Popular Threads on Scholarships and Lower-Cost Colleges

Status as an automatic scholarship is not entirely clear; most of the web pages show nothing that indicates that it is competitive, but there is a 500 word essay on three questions (two of which seem more like a survey) in the scholarship application.

Alabama A&M University
Application Deadline: 2/1 (apply separately at https://galileo.aamu.edu/scholarship/ )
Award: Cost of tuition, room, board, fees for up to 8 semesters, plus $1,000/semester books (AAMU Presidential Scholarship)
Requirements: 3.75 HS GPA, 28 ACT or 1310 SAT, graduating HS senior (not gap year); contact school for renewal criteria
Award: Cost of tuition for up to 8 semesters (AAMU Merit Scholarship)
Requirements: 3.25 HS GPA, 23 ACT or 1130 SAT, graduating HS senior (not gap year); contact school for renewal criteria
Award: Cost of tuition for up to 4 semesters (AAMU Transfer Merit Scholarship)
Requirements: 3.25 college GPA as a transfer student
http://www.aamu.edu/Admissions/fincialaid/Documents/academicscholarshipbrochure1819x.pdf (linked from http://www.aamu.edu/admissions/fincialaid/pages/default.aspx )