Chances of my son getting a scholarship UCF?

[swaggems]

<p>My son is graduating next year and is looking at colleges. We have financial issues and are looking for ways to pay for college without heavy debt. He is considering UCF as we hear that they give good scholarships to OOS students. Could he get a scholarship there with these stats, and if so, how much?</p>

<p>[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 1550/2280 (1550/2300 superscore)
[ *] SAT II: 770 Chem, 800 USH
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69 (strong upward trend 3.21 freshmen year, 3.86 Soph Year, and 4.0 Jr. Year with 5 honors/Ap classes, one regular class, and gym; took all the hardest courses except apush which he was ineligible for bc of his freshmen year grades, but he attempted to make up for this by getting an 800 on ush sat and hopefully a 5 on the AP test for ush.)
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):Havent gotten APUSH or AP Psych scores back yet, but expecting 4 or 5s on both </p>

<p>[ *] Senior Year Course Load:AP English, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, AP Italian, AP Gov., Acting/ceramics (both are half year classes), Gym
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Most likely a NMF (231 on the PSAT)</p>

<p>[ /list]Subjective:[ /b][list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Television and Film Society (Treasurer, Won a Telly with society, and with the society came in first place in NJ for the “U Got Brains” PSA contest), Italian Honors Society (Treasurer), Politics Club (Co-vice President, it was defunct and he helped to bring it back), National Honors Society, Co-Founder/Editor-in Chief of Threadflo.com (a website that he and his friends started and worked on)
[ *]community service: Tutored an economically disadvantaged every Monday during his soph, jr., and senior years, volunteered at a hospital two to three days a week during the summers after soph and junior years
[ *] jobs: gave guitar lessons
/list]Other[ /b][list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):NJ</p>

<p>[ *] School Type: Competitive Public Schools (about 10 or so kids go on to Ivy’s each year)
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender:Male
[ *]Income Bracket: around $85,000 per year</p>

[abmiller]

<p>Hello! I am an OOS National Merit Scholar who will be attending UCF this upcoming fall. The great news for your son is that National Merit Finalist are given what amounts to be a full-ride scholarship (~$33,400 a year). This proved to help push me in the direction of UCF, but it was the overall great fit, ideal location, and the abundance of opportunities that UCF provides to scholars that made me choose it over the other schools I was admitted to (Caltech, Notre Dame, USC full-tuition scholarship). I would highly suggest paying UCF a visit this upcoming fall so you can see that while it is a state school, it is a school on the rise. If money is an issue, you can even talk to the National Merit coordinator about potentially having UCF help pay for the flight down and your accommodations.</p>

[penguin10]

<p>I’m an in-state national merit but I know for this upcoming year they are giving in-state NMF an extra $24k, and probably more to the OOS students. I am getting $40k in pocket money and next year’s NMF will be getting $64k. UCF has tons of opportunities besides the money as well.</p>