<p>Trying to help my daughter consider other options. Although we're in state she's pretty firmly decided that GA Tech isn't for her. Right now she plans to apply to UA and AU and GA Southern as a financial safety.</p>
<p>She's got a 29 ACT, 3.9 GPA (un-weighted), several AP and dual-enrollment classes completed. EC about average.</p>
<p>She's interested in a med-large school and is interested in pledging a sorority.</p>
<p>She's interested in civil engineering and contemplates doing graduate level work in Architecture.</p>
<p>Thoughts on other schools she should strongly consider?</p>
<p>Clemson has decent OOS merit aid, a large Civil Engineering program, and an Architecture grad program. It also has eleven national sororities with over 1,800 members. It’s likely as close as AU (based on where in GA you’re located) for travel.</p>
<p>I also know that some of the Florida schools give decent OOS merit (such as UCF), so you may want to look into those (forget UF…little to no merit is available, as compared to UCF and the others).</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>I second looking into Clemson.</p>
<p>I would suggest UF, but I agree with Gator you only get merit aid from UF if you’re the top of the top. Your daughter wouldn’t get anything from UF. </p>
<p>UCF is a good pick. I wouldn’t go for USF because they’re more medical oriented, but they have great merit aid.</p>
<p>One more point on the ACT (or a high enough SAT score) gets an automatic full tuition scholarship for engineering majors at Alabama.</p>
<p>Go to the financial aid section of these forums and look at the top few sticky threads with the list of automatic and competitive full tuition and full ride scholarships for more.</p>
<p>It may be easier but it’s a heck of a lot more expensive!</p>
<p>Civil + M.Architecture is 4 + 3.5 = 7.5 years… not that architecture is shorter in itself…</p>
<p>Is she interested in architectural engineering at all, or just classical civil engineering. Arch.E may get her some advanced standing for an M.Arch.</p>
<p>Thanks to those who have replied. Yes, she will get significant aid at Bama and lots more if she can grab that last point on the ACT this fall. Will look into Clemson further. Several students locally with great stats have not gotten the best packages from Clemson lately, so I wasn’t feeling optimistic about her chances there. May be worth an application though.</p>
<p>Will look more closely at UCF, thanks.</p>
<p>She’s somewhat interested in Arch.E, but will probably go civil. She’s got significant dual enrollment credit (should graduate with about 45 done) so she hopes to chop a year off of undergrad.</p>
<p>Budget wise she’d like to be as debt-free as possible during her undergrad years. We’re solidly middle class and she has a sib. who will be in college as well and then two much younger sibs behind her. We will spend 3-4k per year to help her.</p>
<p>My school (NCSU) gives pretty good merit aid. I know a few people that got a full ride pretty easily.</p>
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Then most definitely count off UMiami. It’s a great school, but they’d giver her about 13,000-17,000 off her tuition…which isn’t much consider the $60,000 CoA. </p>
<p>It’s not looking like UCF will be the most affordable option, not that you shouldn’t still look into it. I believe they have an out of state tuition waiver.</p>
<p>She may want to try the SAT as well as the ACT. Some students do better on one test versus the other. It may also be another chance to hit some of the scholarship thresholds.</p>
<p>My S’s at Bama. 1 more point on the ACT not only gets you full tutition, but an additional $2500 stipend from the school of engineering that can be used toward room & board.</p>
<p>Their Civ-E department offers a variety of minors (I’d call them concentrations, they choose to call them minors), so although my S will wind up with a BS Civ-E, he’ll get minors in Arch-E and structural. Right now, he’s planning to do his MS in structural.</p>
<p>The scholarship would be for 8 semesters, so if she comes in with a significant amount of credits she could look into doing their University Scholars (BS/MS combination) or STEM MBA (BS/MBA combo) within 4 years or pick up an additional minor.</p>