<p>:-) Your stats looked within range, and (although JMU does not have a ton of scholarship money) it cannot hurt to apply and to apply for the scholarship programs for which you meet eligibility requirements.</p>
<p>About 2 hours from DC, but lots of students from NOVA, so transportation home is generally easy to coordinate. Not an urban campus… but a lot of strong programs, cute college town, and tons of school spirit. </p>
<p>I teach at JMU (transplant from the north east) and love the energy of the student body. :-)</p>
<p>Oh, that’s awesome. I wasn’t really thinking about applying there because i thought George mason and JMU are in the same ball park and i thought that i would rather apply to mason.Now i am thinking about applying there
Here is a bit more information about me since the scholarship is given to kids who demonstrate community service or interest in an activity:</p>
<p>I played football freshman and sophomore year but couldn’t play this year because i went to india. And, in my senior year, i will be the assistant coach a youth football team.I am extremely addicted to football. I play madden( a football videogame) and am thinking about making youtube videos with madden football gameplay. </p>
<p>I was wondering if i could count the coaching as volunteer service and if this aspect makes my application stronger.</p>
<p>coaching would certainly be something to mention.</p>
<p>I think maximizing you in-state school academic and scholarship apps. would be a good plan. There are so many great state schools in VA. Also look at Christopher Newport. I have heard they have some good scholarships.</p>
<p>With competitive scholarships you never know, but it cannot hurt.</p>
<p>I don’t know if GMU has full rides (complete tuition, room & board, fees, books) based strictly on merit. They offer around 25 full tuition scholarships (from the Honors College) and I believe they use those to pull in OOS students as well as the tippy-top in-state tuition. DS received $5,000 a year for 4 years from GMU. He received full tuition offers from 5 other schools. He would have been happy to go to GMU but it was cheaper to go to an OOS school instead.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. One of my friends told me that someone got a full ride there but i guess they dont do that. But, full tuition is still great because i live close to mason.</p>
<p>Do you guys know if the william and mary scholar program is applicable to me or is it just for African Americans and Hispanics?</p>
<p>You have to be careful when people say that they got “full rides” at various places. People throw that phrase around to be impressive, but often the “devil is in the details”.</p>
<p>First of all, many people wrongly call a full tuition scholarship a “full ride”. No it’s not. I can see that if a student commutes from home, he may feel that he got a full ride, but in truth, he got a “full tuition” scholarship. </p>
<p>A full ride (or free ride) includes tuition, room, board, books and sometimes some other goodies.</p>
<p>Also, sometimes the student is given a mixture of aid that adds up to a “full ride”. That aid may include a partial scholarship, fed grants, state grants, school grant, work study, and maybe even a student loan. </p>
<p>Sometimes the entire award is “need based”, yet the student will say that he got a full ride scholarship, when in truth, the aid was all need-based, not based on academics.</p>
<p>If you can commute to GMU, you can commute to NOVA. Pay a visit to the campus closest to your home, and find out about honors programs, scholarships, and transfer agreements with the public universities in VA. NOVA is one of the truly best community colleges in the nation, and many students from the region start their educations there.</p>
<p>Nova is a good school but people give it a bad knock because it is a community college. Nova was one of my options but my parents don’t want me to go there.</p>
<p>The people who look down on NOVA just don’t know enough. NOVA, along with MC here in Montgomery County and Miami-Dade in Florida, truly is exceptional. You are lucky to have an affordable option like NOVA so close at hand. Check out the situation there, apply early and get in line for any goodies like priority registration, honors program, scholarships, etc. and then decide Yes/No after you have been admitted and know your aid packages at the other places. Two years at NOVA on the cheap, can make the last two years at GMU much more affordable if you find that you need to go that route.</p>
<p>Yes, be careful of people throwing around the “full ride” claim. Full ride is usually all the costs associated with college (fees, tuition, books, room & board). Many students/parents claim a “full ride” but their “full ride” is based on financial need. We did not qualify for any financial need so we looked for schools that offered scholarships based on merit only.</p>
<p>i dont think i qualify for financial need either. I think University of Alabama has a good full ride scholarship for people with an sat over 1400 and gpa over 3.7. I am just worried that it is really far away from virginia and i dont really know if it is a good college. i know it has a great football team but i dont know much about its academics.</p>
<p>* I think University of Alabama has a good full ride scholarship for people with an sat over 1400 and gpa over 3.7. I am just worried that it is really far away from virginia and i dont really know if it is a good college*</p>
<p>Again, you’re confusing “full tuition” scholarships with “full rides”. With a 1400 M+CR and a 3.5 GPA, Alabama will give you free tuition.</p>
<p>As for how “good” Bama is: Well it’s ranked much higher than George Mason University.</p>