<p>What is the easiest significant merit scholarship to get in the North New Jersey/NYC area? I really don't care what college I am going, as long as it isn't Community College. I've heard that NJ public colleges have been significantly cutting their merit aid due to the state budget and I cant get a lot of CUNY aid (except Honors College) because I am not an NYC resident. I want to see if anyone on CC is in a similar position. I am a junior so I am still just planning ahead, but any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>You can pretty much research it yourself. Go to google and type in the name of the college and scholarships and it usually brings you right to the scholarship page.</p>
<p>You’re in great luck in you live in NJ. You can qualify for the NJ Stars program if you go to community college and get a certain GPA, they will cover most of your tuition at several NJ state universities. Also NJ has laws whereby ANY NJ college must accept transfer credit from community college if gardes are I think a C or above. This should be pretty easy to research on Google. Rider University also gives scholarship monies based on grades, and continues to award them during college based on your GPA. If as you said you do not care what school you go to, this should help. Since you are only a junior, remember to check off the boxes when you take the SATs and you will get more info than you can handle, often specifically offering you a certain amount of dollars from particular schools. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks, D1dilemmas. I have heard about NJ Stars before and the nice thing about it is that it is guaranteed based on my class rank. However, I see Community College as a fall back option and would think that there are some merit scholarships at 4 year colleges. </p>
<p>I know that most colleges (public at least) list some text on their (usually presidential) scholarship program on their. However, the colleges in NJ are extremely vague on the amount (they usually say like $4,000-$10,000) and the criteria they use to select them. I am looking if anyone on CC has actually got one to know the specifics based on my stats.</p>
<p>I think the NJ Stars program got cut last year, however one importants aspect remains. All colleges in NJ (except Princeton) have agreed to accept CC transfer credits.</p>
<p>You’re welcome, abcabc. Wish we could take advantage of this program! Have you also checked out some of the in-state NJ tuitions? TCNJ is a great school with a nice pricetag. Congrats to your niece, amandakayak. NJMom is right about Princeton being the only NJ school not legally obligated to accept transfer credits (with decent grades) from NJ CCs because Princeton does not accept transfer students, period. But Columbia University has a student (if she has not graduated by now) who is a transfer from one of the NJ CCs!</p>