SAT: Math: 610 Reading: 640 Writing 640 OVR: 1890 (not great :/)
Gpa: UW: 3.85 W: 4.65
Rank: 25th percentile (but it’s the 62nd best public school in the US if that helps)
I live in Florida but I don’t want to go to go to college here and the only way I do that is if I get something under 25k a year OOS, which, is very hard to get nowadays.
Any help/tips/possible scholly’s/schools would be great. I’m looking more at the mid-atlantic (UNC, Clemson, etc.) and the Big Ten schools in the northern midwest for programs with good undergraduate business schools.
““I’m looking more at the mid-atlantic (UNC, Clemson, etc.) and the Big Ten schools in the northern midwest for programs with good undergraduate business schools.””
Your stats aren’t high enough to get costs down to that level at Clemson, or Big 10 schools. Your stats are too low to get into UNC as an OOS.
Clemson has a very high OOS cost, and no way would the net-cost be $25k. It’s OOS cost is $45k. No way would you get more than maybe $5k of merit (likely not even that much).
The top 25% of students at Clemson have an ACT 32+. Those are the kids that will get meaningful merit.
Have your parents said that they will pay $25k per year? If not, where does that number come from??
Merit is based on the M+CR…you have a 1250 (or ACT 28). That won’t get much merit at the schools that will likely interest you.
You need to retest to get at least a 1330 M+CR or ACT 30…preferably higher.
@mom2collegekids my parents said up to 25k, that’s why I am looking for any possible merit help. Thanks for your help, I’m going to have to work harder on my scores if I want to attend any of these places!
Ferris State? Lake Superior State?
Ferris looks like OOS tuition is ~16000, but there’s an automatic 5000 for out of state, plus 4500 for an 1170 SAT and 3.5. 16000 - 9500 = 4500 in tuition. I can’t imagine you’d spend 20k in living and travel expenses unless you chartered a jet.
Lake Superior is supposedly going to offer in-state tuition to US and Canadian residents starting in the Fall of 2016, probably somewhere in the 10-11 range. They have similar scholarships as Ferris State.
Neither is a big name, but I don’t think you’ll be sitting in a class with 400 other students as a freshman either.
Might be useful to weigh your value of a big name in Florida against a lesser known school further away.
If business is your thing, maybe do some research on a 5 year MBA. If the cost is 5-10k less than 25, might they support a 5th year?
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This student won’t be happy getting merit at some commuter/suitcase school just to go OOS.
He needs to raise his scores and then look at schools where merit will reduce cost to $25k.
I found some potential opportunities for merit aid in WVU, it’s rankings aren’t great but I qualify for their Honor’s College. Does anyone have any personal experience with it?
@adamnird if you can raise your SAT Math & CR to 1260 you would qualify for large merit aid (Buckeye & Trustee) scholarship ($14,000) at Ohio State, bringing tuition and room and board to about $27,000, which may be doable for you. The Fisher College of business is an excellent school and highly ranked. Checkout USNWR and Bloomberg news rankings of undergrad business programs.