<p>Kids with stats like that are usually concerned with getting in, not with Merit $$.</p>
<p>Merit scholarships are essentially a means of price discrimination, part of a college’s overall sales strategy, and often not really at all based on indices of achievement or potential. I agree that the OP isn’t going to see offers of merit scholarship from all of the colleges she has mentioned, but it’s hardly out of the question that some may very well make offers. Chestnut Hill College, for example: someone else said that it offered merit money, and the OP’s stats are fine for there, certainly not below average.</p>
<p>You have a very wide of schools listed–urban; rural; large; small; Catholic; mixed. Do you have a preference?
Have you looked at the individual CC forums for many of these schools (including earlier posts)? Read a guidebook?
You will also get more responses by posting separate questions with the name of each in the title.</p>
<p>Here in the northeastern suburbs of New York, Drexel and Dayton would be the top choices from your list. As Keilexandra pointed out, Drexel isn’t really a liberal arts school. BTW, for your chosen majors I think both Providence College and Stonehill College would be better choices (in Rhode Island) that Roger Williams.</p>
<p>Nw Hope, do you think either would take him with his below 3.0? Both are fine schools, but, like Drexel, strike me as likely out of reach</p>
<p>Will Roger Williams accept a 2.8?</p>
<p>What is the minimum GPA that Providence or Stonehill will accept?</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the common data set for Stonehill College. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.stonehill.edu/Documents/Planning%20and%20Institutional%20Research/CDS/CDS_0910_Section%20C.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stonehill.edu/Documents/Planning%20and%20Institutional%20Research/CDS/CDS_0910_Section%20C.pdf</a></p>
<p>Here’s the link to the common data set for Roger Williams.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rwu.edu/depository/institutional_research/CDS_2008_2009_RWU.pdf[/url]”>http://www.rwu.edu/depository/institutional_research/CDS_2008_2009_RWU.pdf</a></p>
<p>And here is the link to the 2007-2008 common data set for Providence College-</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.providence.edu/NR/rdonlyres/A98F94A8-ED44-4BF5-B82E-CB222DE7D483/12783/PC_Common_Data_Set_2007_2008.pdf[/url]”>http://www.providence.edu/NR/rdonlyres/A98F94A8-ED44-4BF5-B82E-CB222DE7D483/12783/PC_Common_Data_Set_2007_2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>nysmile - thanks for the information. Is there a website for this detailed information?</p>
<p>Everyone I know (or who my daughter knows) who is at SUNY Albany is loving it. My daughter is applying. We met the director or admissions when we were there over Columbus Day. 26 ACT is good; from my reserach, your GPA may be low for Albany. I don’t know about financial aid but if you are from LI, then the SUNY schools are a really good deal (that’s why we are looking).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I went to Dayton. I can try to answer questions if you have any.</p>
<p>A student’s happiness at DePaul depends on how independent he or she is. The campus is integrated with the city, and on-campus housing is limited, so that nearly all upper-classmen and even some freshman end up living off-campus. It’s great for someone who can handle freedom; for someone who needs a more insulated campus environment to feel secure and supported, DePaul is probably a poor choice.</p>
<p>Mantori is exactly right about DePaul and the housing situation - it’s not a typical college campus dorm situation, and the city IS the campus (more or lesss). However, my D has found that the professors are very supportive and very engaged, and she has yet to have a class larger than 25-30 students. Several of her professors have hosted dinners or get-togethers for their students outside of class.</p>
<p>So - not a hand-holding type of school, residence-wise, but pretty student-focused in the classroom.</p>
<p>Another thing with DePaul is the “percentage of students living on campus” is a little hard to interpret or compare with the similar statisistic from other urban colleges. At GW, apartments buildings directly across the street or right around the corner edge of an academic buildings are owned by GW and considered on campus housing. At Depaul, apartments buildings directly across the street or right around the corner edge of an academic buildings are owned by others and considered off campus housing - but there are a lot of undergrad students who live “right there”
(Source: learned this on a DePaul tour, where we saw buildings that appeared to be on campus that were considered to be off campus housing, even though some seemed to be, like, in between buildings that are considered to be on campus.)</p>
<p>Many Chicagoans apply to both DePaul and Loyola. Loyola is farther from the city center, but feels a bit more like a residential college IMHO.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, I think DePaul is fantastic. Just not if you need on-campus housing.</p>
<p>Also of note in DePaul - there are actually private residences on the campus (for those of you familiar with the campus, if you go into where the music hall is and turn to the left, there are actually several streets of wholly-private residences quite literally in the campus). I have friends who live there and my mother used to live directly across the street from the music hall. </p>
<p>DePaul is viewed well in Chicago - it’s no NU or U of Chicago, of course, but quite solid in many areas.</p>
<p>Some more info on Dayton would be nice. Do you know anything about the engineering dept. or marching band? Those are the 2 interests of my child. Alos, is the ghetto really as crazy as I read about on other links? My son likes to have a good time, but I’m hoping he would find things to do besides drink. That is why I’m hoping the band keeps his busy.</p>
<p>Chestnut Hill is aggressively offering $12 merit or more scholarships</p>
<p>hokiefan-</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I have no first-hand experience with the engineering program or the marching band. I knew some engineering majors, and, well, you don’t have to worry about the band keeping your son busy, he’ll stay very busy in engineering courses. It’s a good program.</p>
<p>In my opinion, the Ghetto (South Student Neighborhood, as it’s officially called) is not nearly as crazy as I’ve heard some people make it out to be. I graduated a few years ago, but even when I started at UD the administration had already cracked down significantly. Of course, I was only there for four years, so I don’t know if it was ever really as crazy as some people claim.</p>
<p>That said, it is a college campus with thousands of students living in houses. There are plenty of parties, like most other campuses. However, parties are very much avoidable; there are always free events on campus, the library is open late, the basketball games (and other sports) are popular events, and when I was there the school funded parties for students that weren’t interested in alcohol or drugs or whatever. I don’t know if they still do that, but the point I’m making is that I’ve always felt the “party scene” at UD was a little overblown, usually by outsiders. Partying is an option for students, but not a requirement to be social. It is a fun school, though.</p>
<p>If you have any more questions, I’d be happy to answer them.</p>
<p>If you want info on Philadelphia University, let me know. My daughter is a freshman in interior design/architecture. We picked that over Drexel for location, cost, rowing and ease of transition from interior design to architecture (same curriculum for first two years). Good luck.</p>