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Colleges and Universities A-Z Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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<p>How are my chances and am I likely to get scholarships based on these stats? I am applying for Engineering. </p>

<p>Asian female, competitive NJ public school </p>

<p>GPA: 4.024 weighted
Rank: 26 of 283 (top 9%)</p>

<p>SAT I: 2030 (M 760, V 600, W 670)</p>

<p>SAT II: MATH IC 750, MATH IIC 800, CHINESE 800, BIOLOGY 630</p>

<p>AP:
Computer Science A- 5
Biology- 4
U.S. History- 3</p>

<p>I get mostly A's and B's in all honors and AP courses.</p>

<p>Strong recommendations from counselor and computer science teacher. Okay rec. from biology teacher</p>

<p>E.C.:
~Art club (officer), Computer Club (officer), Math Club, Teacher Assistant, National Honors Society, Spanish Honors Society.
~a lot of work experience at Best Western hotel as a front desk receptionist and 4 yrs experience as swimming instructor at YMCA.
~I worked over the summer at a bakery and my Chinese school
~some volunteer work at local library and YMCA</p>

<p>Thanks for evaluating me!!</p>

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<p>anyone????</p>

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<p>I'd say you should get merit aid with those stats. At least $15k (seems to be around the norm)</p>

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<p>$15K a year? If so, thats a lot. My state school only gives like $5000 a year and they consider that being generous to in-state students.</p>

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<p>You'll almost definitely get in and get plenty of merit aid with that!</p>

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<p>yummi: But there is a big difference in the tuition between your state school and RPI...</p>

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<p>thats a good point. i would have to say that my state school is one of the more expensive ones and it really isn't that great either, so i don't really want to go there.</p>

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<p>RPI has some nice merit aid for women. I have a friend whose daughter is there and got a couple thousand more this year than previous for no apparent reason except that they want to keep her.</p>

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<p>thats very interesting. Considering how expensive RPI is I don't think I can go unless they give me around $18,000- $20,000 a year, which is a lot.</p>

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<p>ive been looking around, and somewhere i saw that rpi's average financial aid is 28k</p>

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<p>The $28,000 is need-based aid. The average merit award is around $15,000. Those amounts are in the Common Data Set.</p>

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<p>do they generally give more scholarship to girls?</p>

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<p>so would that come to a totally of $43,000 in total aid?</p>

<p>if so, wow</p>

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<p>wut percent get financial aid?</p>