<p>what are my chances of receiving a merit based scholarship?
what are my chances of receiving a full ride?</p>
<p>Student:</p>
<p>User Name: heatsteelers
Gender: M
Location: New York
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 0.00
GPA - Weighted: 93.00
Class Size: 500</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT I Math: 730
SAT I Critical Reading: 630
SAT I Writing: 590
ACT: 29
SAT II U.S. History: 710
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 740</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: investment club member 10-12 grade
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: JV Basketball 9th and 10th grade
Volunteer/Service Work: about 350 hours total
Honors and Awards: most improved basketball player
national honor society member in 12th grade</p>
<p>Not sure about merit, you may recieve some but because the OOS tuition is so low they are really stingy on OOS merit aid so I’d say not likely. As for a full ride, I’ve seen people with 33s not getting any merit aid so I’d say not to get your hopes up. If you are applying to Carlson Business or IT I’d say you are a match, but not a lock as I’ve seen a few kids with similar GPAs and 29/30 on the ACT get rejected last year.</p>
<p>Stats vary quite a bit between admissions to different schools, I’d look at this:
[Academic</a> Profile](<a href=“http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html]Academic”>http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html)</p>
<p>It is my understanding that most of the merit aid goes to the honors students and I don’t think your stats would get you into honors, at least from the perspective of last year’s applicants. It is interesting that the U has changed their admission notification cycle from the past. Like others have said, I can only guess that it is because the new tution structure and the economy have driven up admissions and that they want to wait until they know what the applicant pool looks like before they begin to admit them. If you read over last year’s posts on admissions you will see that some really good students did not get admitted because some of them had applied late and the class was full. I am thinking that the U is trying to avoid that scenario and ramp up its stats at the same time in its quest to become one of the top research institutions in the nation (as per prez).</p>
<p>Yea if you’re applying to IT i would be more concerned about getting in than merit for you.</p>
<p>or Carlson or CBS…</p>