<p>He hasn’t visited Dominican yet. Going in January after he gets his acceptance/merit package.</p>
<p>mom2ck… My DS is also looking at Sewanee. He is very outdoorsy and really likes their EMT program there. Don’t know if we will be able to visit because we live in SD, CA. Sewanee is high on MY list for him because it seems like an academically strong school, has EA, has a pretty big endowment and seems generous with merit aid. What do you think my DS’s chances are for merit with a 2100-2200 SAT 3.6 GPA from a top private prep school, and A LOT of EC’s with leadership… Eagle Scout etc… I was hoping he would get a good amount of merit there.</p>
<p>DS’s chances are for merit with a 2100-2200 SAT 3.6 GPA from a top private prep school,</p>
<p>He should get a good merit offer from Sewanee if those are his test scores (what are his actual scores?)…however, I don’t know if his GPA will be too low for merit. Some schools insist on a 3.75+ for merit. </p>
<p>I would call and ask if they have any high GPA req’ts. Also, how much merit do you need for him to get? </p>
<p>Out-of-state tuition and fees: $35,862
Room and board: $10,250
Books and supplies: $800
Estimated personal expenses: $900
Transportation expense: $200 (grossly underestimated. Travel for most OOS kids would be MUCH higher.)</p>
<p>COA…about $49k per year…</p>
<p>So, if you need big merit for this school to be affordable, I’m not sure that this will work. My sons had SATs that were close to 2300 and GPAs that were 4.6+ (one was Val and one was Sal) and their merit scholarships were somewhere in the $20k range (can’t remember exactly). So, still would need to cover the other $25k - 30k of costs. </p>
<p>The average merit scholarship is about $14k per year.<br>
The average loan is $7k. </p>
<p>If your son is a junior, I would tell him to try to finish as strongly as possible this year.</p>
<p>If he’s a senior, then his GPA will likely be what it is. If he is a senior, where has he applied so far? many schools that give big merit had Dec 1st deadlines for scholarship consideration. </p>
<p>Be aware…Sewanee is not really near anything. That can be frustrating to students who want some off campus hangouts to go to. If I remember correctly, it also only had one dining hall…which gets old to students especially without some off campus options.</p>
<p>mom2ck… Thanks for all the info!!! Sometimes I think this college thing is so overwhelming that I wonder if it is all worth it??? I watched a NBC program last night on the price of college debt and it was VERY depressing. I know one thing, a college education is not worth massive amounts of debt for any reason.</p>
<p>Here is our situation. My DS is a Junior. He has had a GREAT first semester with almost all A’s… only one AP though… school heavily discourages kids from taking more than 2 Junior year… so his GPA looks like it is rising. He took his first SAT in Nov. and got a 2190, so I’m thinking he will probably be able to bring it up to 2200+ if he takes it 1 or 2 more times… his CR was a lot lower than his practice tests and his PSAT so I’m thinking if he gets this score up he will be at above 1400 v+M. Just missed NMSF… in CA it is 220…very high unfortunately. His private prep has 50% or more getting into top 20-30 and 20-30% into Ivy’s. It does not rank and average GPA W is 3.5. As far as aid goes, we are at about a 3000 EFC… no house, low income… my DS is on scholarship at his school.</p>
<p>He really likes Sewanee and wants a rural environment. He is huge outdoor enthusiast. Wants to major in Philosophy and Religion and then go on to med. school. He is also looking seriously at some of the service academies. I think he has a good chance at a few of them based on his test scores and leadership. He is also a Varsity swimmer, but probably isn’t going to swim in college.</p>
<p>So far he is liking Whitman, Lewis & Clark, Reed, Colorado College, Colby, Sewanee, St. Lawrence, Oberlin, Vassar, and Wes, Bowdoin, Carleton as big reaches… One of the problems is that even though we live in CA and have great public’s, he has no desire to go to them because they are Sooooo big. He wants a small school with discussion based classes… he really knows the environment in which he can learn best… he has a slight LD. That being said, our whole family has attended Cal-Poly and loved it so I might make him apply as a financial safety. On our schools naviance he is surely a shoe-in. He is also very level-headed… as he is an Eagle Scout :-))… and will not take on heavy debt to go to undergrad…
HEEEEEELP!!!</p>
<p>Was talking to a new friend from Washington and sharing our son’s list of schools. She said that Linfield is extremely liberal compared to all the other schools. Our son is pretty conservative and doesn’t want that environment. Would like a good mix of both sides politically or more towards conservative. How do you find that out about a school?</p>