<p>The school just replied that they need to update their scholarship page to say 2014-15 with no other changes.</p>
<p>Acceptances should occur a couple weeks after scores and transcripts are sent.</p>
<p><a href="http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/">http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/</a></p>
<p>Thanks, mom2collegekids! If they qualify for honors college, are there other scholarships in addition to full tuition?
How hard would it be to qualify for university fellows program? Our net price right now with the presidential scholarship comes to $18,000. We would have to get closer to $10,000 especially since she would have to fly to come home.</p>
<p>"*For scholarships awarded only by Undergraduate Admissions — If tuition is being paid by an outside source, with the exception of the Academic Common Market, the scholarship dollars may be used for other educational expenses (room, board, books, etc)."</p>
<p>IDK what the academic common market is but it sounds like outside scholarships and need-based aid like Pell would stack?</p>
<p>@mommdc, our D is at Alabama on the Presidential scholarship and the net price they claim is well padded, and you can get it down by choosing less expensive housing, buying used books, etc. My D lives off campus now and her costs were about $16,000 including travel last year. (we live in CA), and that is with a single room in a fancy apartment.
Outside scholarships stack.</p>
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<p>Net price should not be $18k if you are economical…less expensive dorm choice, smaller meal plan after first year, buying books online or renting books. The coa is padded to allow people to borrow for the pricier choices.</p>
<p>The HC has some scholarships, but not usually for incoming frosh.</p>
<p>UFE is very competitve, but you can try.</p>
<p>what is your child’s major? CBH also has merit.</p>
<p>eng’g and comp sci also have merit awards.</p>
<p>Your child can also borrow 5500 in loans if needed.</p>
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<p>Our EFC based on estimated income this year will be $5000 and I feel that is the most we can come up with out of pocket.</p>
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<p>You may qualify for some Pell, especially if you can decrease your EFC a bit. </p>
<p>also, encourage your D to work/save every summer…YOU need to hold her savings for her so not to hurt her EFC. she should become a pharm tech to get money and to help her resume.</p>
<p>Academic Common Market is a regional tuition discount arrangement between several states’ public universities:
<a href=“Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board”>Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board;
<p>Thanks for posting. I’m thinking our D should apply just to have another safety. </p>
<p>It’s ok if we don’t visit, right? Acceptance is purely stats driven? D is totally open to Alabama, but it is just so far, I’m hoping one of the schools closer to home works out. 
However, it’d be nice to have a free option on the list that isn’t super urban Temple. (We’d definitely visit 'Bama before she enrolled if it looked like we were heading that way). </p>
<p>I would certainly hope that the automatic merit scholarships at Alabama and other schools that offer them come with automatic admission as well.</p>
<p>However, if a visit is important in determining if the student likes the school enough, the visit should be done before designating the school as a safety. A school is not a safety if it is somehow unsuitable for the student.</p>
<p>It is ok if you dont visit.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone who replied. I was just running the npc on the ua website to get an idea on the net price. That’s where I got the $18,000 number from. I understand that this could come down with different housing and meal options. That’s good to know.
My daughter wants to go into pharmacy, but could major in chemistry or biochemistry first and maybe she will even make a career out of that instead.
We’re pretty close to not getting any Pell. UA calculated the EFC at $6,000.
The best thing would be to just apply and see what happens I guess. </p>
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<p>Chemistry, biochemistry, or biology do not have particularly good bachelor’s degree level job and career prospects.</p>
<p>as a prepharm with other options, your D may want to major in chemE or CompSci with a pre-pharm track. That way she would have a Plan B…and get an addl 2500 per year.</p>
<p>bio, chem, and biochem majors really dont have great job prospects in this country w/o grad degrees. there is a glut.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know about engineering, she likes math, but not so much physics. Do chem eng need physics?
That’s depressing, so unless you go into debt in grad school you can’t make good money with chemistry?
I was thinking if she had a BS in chem and got a good deal with free tuition or even free ride and didn’t have to take out much in loans for UG then she would have a degree to fall back on if she changed her mind about pharmacy.</p>
<p>Yes, chemical engineering and chemistry majors need to take physics in college. So do biology majors, although biology majors can take a lighter-math version.</p>
<p>Chemistry PhD programs worth attending should be funded, so there should not be significant additional debt. But the chemistry PhD job market may not be that great either.</p>
<p>@mommdc - my daughter is a pre pharm major at University of South Carolina. She applied to Alabama and got the Presidential scholarship. She would have been a ChemE major at Alabama for the same reason others are noting. But then she would have had to go Pharmacy school for 4 more years. Some schools (including South Carolina) have 6 year PharmD programs. That is why she chose South Carolina. In the end it was going to be the same cost but she was going to be out of school making very good money 2 years earlier. Just food for thought. </p>
<p>One has to carefully determine - maybe determine some kind of percentage statistic regarding going on to a degree like pharmacy and how will the costs for 6 year PharmD program versus finishing an UG program first somewhere else or getting enough schooling somewhere else to get admitted to PharmD program. Also what if one has to take a gap year to get into pharmacy program or help fund pharmacy program - can work as Chem E></p>
<p>Sometimes careful for student strengths/weaknesses - too many consecutive semesters and burnout, trying to finish program too aggressively, etc.</p>
<p>Ahsmuoh, yes you’re right. We are hoping our instate option, Pitt will work out, but for that to be affordable we would need a big scholarship and it’s a long shot. So we need to explore other options.</p>
<p>@mommdc - If Pitt’s instate, have you checked out Temple? No way to sugar coat it, it’s an urban campus in a bad neighborhood. However, the price would probably be right for you. <a href=“http://admissions.temple.edu/sites/admissions/files/uploads/188_1213_scholarship_info_sheet_sl_2014FINAL.pdf”>http://admissions.temple.edu/sites/admissions/files/uploads/188_1213_scholarship_info_sheet_sl_2014FINAL.pdf</a></p>
<p>Merit money at Pitt is getting harder to catch. We know several high stats kids who got little or nothing. Penn State was actually cheaper for one of them! You never would’ve heard that a couple of years ago. </p>
<p>Yes, thanks I have looked at Temple. And the neighborhood does concern me.</p>
<p>I should have added that the app takes like five minutes…no essays, no LORs.</p>