Does anyone know any automatic full ride scholarships for a 1430 sat. Thanks!
It depends on your unweighted GPA and how you define full ride (tuition free, tuition and room and board, all that plus book and travel stipend).
Unweighted 3.6, weighted 4.7 and I define it as 100% tuition and room& board paid.
It’s been a while since this was updated. You’ll have to check the web pages.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20772031/#Comment_20772031
The link above is OLD.
Look at this one and start with post 76. That update was posted January 2018…so you still need to check each and every college website for current awards.
@ucbalumnus any suggestions for this student now?
ETA…automatic full free ride scholarships are not very common…so you might want to come up with a plan B. Are you saying your family cannot contribute at all ever to your college costs?
Automatic full rides are extremely rare.
Most of the automatic full ride scholarships in older lists have been discontinued, reduced to smaller scholarships, and/or made competitive since then. Students with National Merit status may have some additional ones available, but those also have become less common.
Here are a few possible remaining ones that do not depend on National Merit status, but you should check with the school, since the wording on the web pages could be interpreted as either automatic or non-automatic. (Whether they use unweighted or weighted (and how weighted) HS GPA is another question to ask.)
http://www.pvamu.edu/faid/types-of-aid/scholarships/university-scholarships/
http://www.aamu.edu/admissions-aid/financial-aid/scholarships/index.html
https://www.tuskegee.edu/programs-courses/scholarships/freshman-scholarships
From your other thread it sounds like the Univ. of AL will have a net cost of $10-15k, which is what you said is within your parents’ budget. It will be easier to find merit awards that bring the cost down to ~$24k ($15k from your parents, $5500 from the federal student loan, & $3k summer work earnings) than it will be to find a full ride.
Some colleges compensate their resident assistants by giving them free room and board. If you think you might have a good chance getting this position, it could help turn a free tuition offer into a full ride after your first year.
However, dorm resident assistant jobs can be quite competitive.
@BunnyBlue no one…repeat no one should count on getting an RA job that compensates with free room, or free room and board. Those jobs are highly competitive, really having a “good chance” is totally up to those who do the interviews.
Yes, SO many kids want to be RAs. Don’t think you’ll get picked, because chances are, you won’t.