Can I get scholarships to Mizzou/Boulder/Michigan?

Paying for College
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Racial minority junior in an affluent neighborhood in a great school of Northern Illinois

  • Progressed to get into honors classes and AP classes.
    Junior year: all honors classes except for math, and AP French (highest level in my school)
    Senior year: AP Bio, AP AB Calc, AP Literature, and AP Psych (then gym/free period/etc)
  • My cumulative academic GPA is always unweighted at our school and is a 3.54/4.0. My cumulative all subject weighted GPA is 3.87/5.0.
  • 31 ACT

ECs

  • Editor on my school’s nationally recognized newspaper (2 years)
  • Student leader in one of those “get-to-know-yourself” retreats sponsored by the school this year (was accepted to be one next year as well) (2 years)
  • Medical Club member (3 years)
  • After School All Stars member (tutoring kids in less fortunate areas) (2 years)
  • Tutor for kids in a writing program at my school (2 years)
  • French Nat’l Honors Society + Nat’l Honors Society (3 years + 2 years)
  • Peer Group program (program helping freshmen transition into high school, 75 students from the grade are chosen and its selective because its out of about 180)

Extras

  • Work at a juice bar and now at a frozen yogurt bar
  • After School All Stars’ volunteering counts in my hours, however I plan on volunteering in a hospital soon
  • Played lacrosse fresh/soph year, not anymore.

Scholarship need based info

  • last year my mom made about 22,000 while my dad made about 200,000

Which of these schools do you think will give me any scholarship money? Can you please write a predicted estimated range of how much also? Please help because anything is very welcome! Thank you!!
UW-Madison
Mizzou
Colorado-Boulder
Michigan State

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Do the NPCs on each school’s FA web page.

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Madison is FAFSA only. If 0 EFC you could get some aid and loans but would still need to pay $30,000 for freshman year. You could apply for Chancellor’s and Powers Knapp scholarships for under-represented minorities. Are you an underrepresented minority?

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With your stats, Boulder will offer between 10-15K (off the OOS price). UW doesn’t give OOS kids scholarships. Mizzou would offer the Mark Twain non-resident scholarship of $10K. MSU does offer merit aid to OOS students: https://admissions.msu.edu/finances/scholarships_merit.asp

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@dfin2013 are you saying it is a fact that UW doesn’t give OOS kids scholarships, or that its very difficult to do so?

6

Are your parents married?

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UW is so broke that they are likely to increase the OOS tuition a lot. Don’t expect any aid from them for OOS students and ACT 31 would not get you merit aid there either.

8

Michigan State doesn’t give much in merit aid.

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And I’m surprised the estimate for Boulder is that high. I don’t know any that got much from CU. Not saying it isn’t possible, just not common.