<p>Okay I'm looking for a college that will likely cost $25 a year after merit aid including tuition, room, and board.
I have a 3.95/4.65 uw/w gpa
Cr:730 M:680 (hopefully 730+ after I retake it) W: 600 (hopefully 650)
My senior schedule is
Honors English
Actors studio (2nd level theater class)
Honors physics
Study hall
Honors calculus
Ap economics
Gym
Ap Bio
I've taken progressively more honors since freshman year when I only took 2 and this is the first year I'm taking AP's
I want to major in biomedical engineering or mechanical engineering. I live in NJ
At which of these colleges would I have the best chance at paying $25k a year? Or less for instate?
Case Western Reserve
Carnegie Mellon
Drexel
Miami university
University of Maryland CP or BC
Stevens Institute of Technology
Virginia Tech
The college of New Jersey
Rutgers
SUNY Binghamton
Lehigh
Rensselaer
George Mason
Widener
North Carolina state university </p>
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My kid (with better SAT than you) did not get any scholarships from this school.</p>
<p>Do you KNOW that you do not qualify for financial aid? Since you ask specifically about merit money, not fin aid, I am so assuming. </p>
<p>Your own state schools are the best bet at that price range. Getting merit at any of the others are like buying lottery tickets. Give it a go, at those schools that have the most high ticket merit awards; there’s a big difference between having lots of small merit awards and having a few big time awards. You might want to ask specifically. If you are a female, your chances are slightly better.</p>
<p>Did you run some numbers through net price calculators?
Some will ask for stats and some privates will list a merit award, but most privates will list need based aid if you qualify.</p>
<p>There are some schools that give guaranteed merit, there is a list here</p>
<p><a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/</a></p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I won’t get merit aid. My situation is kinda complicated but according to the NPC I’m full pay. My parents are just got divorced. They owned a business making almost $100k per year but they abandoned it when they got divorced. Now my mom is making about $21k per year and my dad is unemployed/trying to start another company. They have $500k in savings and another $100k in my name and $100k I’m my sisters name. </p>
<p>I already know I qualify for guaranteed merit at Temple and Stony brook so I didn’t ask about them. I was asking about my chances at merit aid that’s not guaranteed. I am female. </p>
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You confused me</p>
<p>I meant “I’m pretty sure I won’t get financial aid.” Sorry!!</p>
<p>*need based financial aid</p>
<p>^^
I think she means that she won’t get need-based aid.</p>
<p>Sounds like mom has half of that $500k savings, and each child has $100k in a college fund.</p>
<p>Your merit will be based on your M+CR…right now you have a 1410.</p>
<p>That is a strange list…how did you come up with it?</p>
<p>What do you plan to do with BiomedE or MechE? Med school? prosthetics design? </p>
<p>Abandoned a $100k earning business? Dad starting a new business? Is this a new way not to have to buy out a spouse during a divorce? Odd.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon…no merit
Rutgers…maybe some, but not a lot.
RPI…not sure if you would get the $15k…may need higher scores.
the others, who knows.</p>
<p>My dad wasn’t happy running a business and wanted to stop doing it for a while. After the divorce he pursued his dream of day trading and other stock stuff but realized that wasn’t going to be enough of an income.</p>
<p>I came up with the list wanting to stay near the east coast but with a little warmer weather. I really like big state schools but NJ’s kinda suck. I’m just trying to find schools with good merit aid so I thought private might be better? </p>
<p>I plan on getting my masters and possibly PhD in biomedical engineering. </p>
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<p>Well, private merit can be misleading because their COAs are often much higher. So, a $20k merit at an OOS public may give you a remaining cost of $20k, but a $20k merit at a private could leave you with a $40k remaining cost.</p>
<p>as you may already know, a grad/PhD degree in BioMedE can be gotten after an undergrad degree of MechE, ChemE or BioMedE. </p>
<p>True but I don’t think many (if any) of the publics I’m looking at offer much merit aid at all. Except temple which I’m not too fond of. </p>
<p>And yeah ik I can do mechE for undergrad. I’m just worried I won’t get as much hands on experience in bme in undergrad if I major in MechE. Like if a college doesn’t even offer classes or programs in bme how can I be sure it’s what I want to do? I would prefer a college that has both options so I can decide later on. </p>
<p>i was curious when you said “a college that will likely cost $25 a year after merit aid”. ;)</p>
<p>lol oops! Idk how to edit my posts. 
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<p>You are a resident of NJ. Some of the colleges in your state will meet your price point of $25,000 a year.</p>
<p>If you have $100,000 in your name, then $25,000 can be used each of four years plus you can take a Direct Loan ($5500 as a freshman) and get yourself a job to earn money for things like books and spending money.</p>
<p>I’m not positive about costs in NJ, but surely there is on public university there that you can attend for $30,000.</p>
<p>There is a thread in the pinned one about low cost colleges. These cost under $25,000 a year. Look there.</p>
<p>Yeah I looked on that thread. Didn’t really like any of them. There’s TCNJ. I’m applying there. Also rutgers but I don’t really like campus. I don’t know of any other nj publics that offer biomedical engineering. I’d like to also have some oos financial safeties. </p>
<p>The buckeye scholarship takes $12,000 off Ohio State OOS tuition. That should be close to $25,000</p>
<p>Okay thanks. Does anyone know about the merit aid at any of the other colleges I listed? </p>
<p>Case Western Reserve
Carnegie Mellon
Drexel
Miami university
University of Maryland CP or BC
Stevens Institute of Technology
Virginia Tech
The college of New Jersey
Rutgers
SUNY Binghamton
Lehigh
Rensselaer
George Mason
Widener
North Carolina state university</p>
<p>Most of the colleges on your list cost over $40,000 a year. TCNJ and Rutgers, your instate options, would be less. SUNY would be less, and so would NC State, I believe.</p>
<p>But for some of these schools, you are looking at needing a huge amount of merit aid. I don’t think any of these schools have guaranteed merit awards, so you would have to apply and wait and see.</p>
<p>That’s it? I can’t apply to all of those. Ik none of the merit aid would be guaranteed but it would be nice to know which ones I have a good chance at getting aid at. Or which ones offer a lot of aid in general. </p>