A poster in another thread mentioned her NMSF daughter has already been awarded full tuition, room and board and $6000 toward study abroad at ASU for fall of 2020.
Wow! This is pretty great news and would put ASU potentially on the level of UA, UTD and the Florida schools. Has anyone else heard of this level of NMSF scholarship at ASU? I know their webpage says the amount of award “varies” but according to all information I’ve read – it “varies” because the tuition at each of their schools varies.
I’m not sure if this is an NMSF award, alone, or a combination of scholarships, stacked. Anyone with any other info to share and pay it forward for our fellow NMSF parents?
Must be stacked with something else, possibly external scholarship? If you run the scholarship estimator on their website, NM looks to be full tuition plus about half room/board:
Actually, when I ran the estimator, it only said nonresident freshman tuition scholarship. Nothing extra for room and board. So it must be stacked with something else from the university (not outside, because the poster said it was from the university).
@amsunshine To the best of my knowledge, Arizona residents get part of the room and board but non-residents do not (but the tutition of the non-residents is higher so it is still a good deal). What other thread are you referring to?
For non-Arizona residents, the Arizona State estimator at https://scholarships.asu.edu/estimator indicates that the really good scholarships are for “National Scholars” (NMF and NHRP). The highest stats-based scholarships without being a “National Scholar” bring the non-Arizona price down to about $31k per year ($20k per year at the Havasu campus).
Also note that at University of Arizona, National Scholars can stack 5K on top of the maximum stats-based non-Arizona scholarship of 35K, bringing the net price further down.
“Non-Arizona National Scholars: the value of the original Arizona Tuition Award + $5,000 National Scholar Award. See “Arizona Tuition Award” for UA merit review and offer details.”
@amsunshine. You might want to compare Arizona State with U of Arizona. ASU has a merit calculator on its website, or at least it used to. I know of high stats OOS students who have gotten generous merit at both, and not all of them were NMSF. ASU’s Barrett Honors College is well established. U of Arizona’s is developing and features recently built Honors housing among other perks.
Other SW schools you might consider are UT-D (already on your radar), Texas Tech, and UNM (automatic full ride for NMF)
U of A Honors College was founded in 1962 and is well established. ASU Honors College was founded in 1988 and built dedicated honors housing in 2009 while U of A dedicated honors housing opened this year. Both have great reputations and are great options.
As far as NM money, U of A gives a little more than ASU, but they are both very generous.