<p>I have four or five friends who are receiving notices of scholarships and financial aid awards from Creighton who have said that Creighton is offering such generous scholarships that it will be cheaper for them to go to Creighton than the iowa public schools with in-state tuition. </p>
<p>They are applying with 3.4 to 3.8 GPA, 24-28 ACT.</p>
<p>I visited the campus, and it's a beautifully landscaped urban campus in the middle of Omaha. The pre-med, dent, and pharmacy programs are supposed to be outstanding, lots of undergraduate research opportunities because they have such a low student-to-faculty ratio. I would really like to go. </p>
<p>Has anyone else heard about Creighton's financial aid? It almost sounds too good to be true, but I think I am going to apply..... I have 3.62 GPA, 25 ACT.</p>
<p>I am a Creighton student, and I’ll answer your questions. This is mostly about financial aid. Let me know if you have anything else. </p>
<p>I applied to Creighton with a 3.8 and a 30 ACT. I was awarded a scholarship for 75% tuition, room and board, plus a $3,000 “leadership” scholarship. </p>
<p>The consensus among my friends is that nearly everyone gets a pretty good scholarship at Creighton. They use the scholarships to stay on par with the state schools. Most everyone gets at least 25% - 50% scholarship, from what I’ve heard. Then, the leadership scholarships get added on for extracirriculars. Supposedly this goes up to $7,500. </p>
<p>I think the 75% scholarships start at around 3.7 and 28 or 29 ACT, with a sliding scale for higher GPA, lower ACT, and vice-versa. </p>
<p>I would agree that the small class size is really important. Professors are sooo helpful. They’ll do just about anything to see you succeed in their classes. Most students are pre-med, nursing, dent, PT, pharmacy, etc. (there’s a lot of business students too, but I don’t know much about their experience). Our pre-med students do well finding research positions at the med center and in the graduate labs. I’m a sophmore, and I have a research position starting this summer. I am pretty excited to start this experience so early. I’m starting to look at med schools now, and I will be glad to have some relevant experience to put on my applications. </p>
<p>Let me know if there’s anything else you want to know.</p>
<p>My son was impressed with Creighton, the campus, the opportunities and the finanical aid. He visited the honors dorm during finals week and there was a dog troop there for de-stressing the students. My sister and I visited the art museum a couple of blocks away. In the end, son did not want to be that far away from the White Sox, but loved Creighton.</p>
<p>The financial aid is very good at Creighton if you have good stats and extracurriculars. I must admit, however, that Jaysker’s assessment of the financial aid and scholarship offerings are not entirely correct. The highest scholarship amount an out of state student can get is the 75% tuition presidential scholarship. There are only a handful of these scholarships and they are extremely competitive. For example, I had 32 ACT 4.0+ weighted GPA with great EC’s and only got 50% tuition scholarship. So, 75% scholarships definitely don’t start around 3.7 GPA and 29 ACT. Nebraska residents can get 100% tuition presidential scholarships, however. Once again, there are only a handful of these making them exceedingly difficult to attain. </p>
<p>Anyway, good luck with your application cycle.</p>
<p>hmm, I wonder if this changes based on major or honors & AP \ IB classes? Also, I was 3.8 unweighted. My high school didn’t weight GPA. </p>
<p>I wonder if Creighton gets a credit or voucher from the state of Nebraska for accepting in state students. Otherwise what difference does it make to Creighton if a student is in state vs. out-of-state.?</p>
<p>I just got into Creighton. I’m interested in this also.</p>
<p>3.7 GPA unweighted with a moderately hard course load at Hawaii’s top private school. 2040 SAT, 34 ACT.</p>
<p>Do I just fill out the FAFSA and send it and wait for them to hit me up w/ scholarships and need-based? Or are there some additional steps to put myself in the pool for scholarships?</p>
<p>My daughter has very similar GPA and did have a 25 ACT. She has been accepted but did not receive any merit scholarships. I spoke with several people from Creighton and they just said the school was more competitive than most on handing out scholarships and the cutoff to get merit was closer to 26/27 ACT and 3.7 GPA. Anyone else experience this?</p>
<p>I also was accepted at Creighton a couple months ago. They sent me my financial aid information with my admission letter. I received a merit scholarship. My ACT is 26 and gpa is 3.9. hope that helps</p>
<p>D received her acceptance in mid-December along with a very nice Magis Award. I think March 1-15 will be the timeframe to hear about the larger Merit Scholarships.
32 ACT, 3.95 uw, 4.3 w GPA</p>
<p>Still no word on scholarships for me, I’m thinking about contacting the admissions office to see if I can press for a scholarship. I have a small scholarship from a comparable school, so if I don’t get anything at first, I might try to leverage it into some kind of offer from Creighton admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this helps you a lot, rico, but I just got my Presidential Scholarship in the mail yesterday. I had previously received the Magis (which will be replaced by the Presidential), but I have yet to receive the actual financial aid package.</p>
<p>Like I said, I don’t know how much that helps, since I have a 4.0 uw, a 4.435 w, and a 35 ACT with a fair number of activities. I know they look for a lot of volunteering, so it may help if you’re an active volunteer.</p>
<p>I would be careful “leveraging” a scholarship with Creighton. Unless you have excellent activities, your GPA and ACT seem to place you in the lower middle (55% of last year’s incoming class had a 24-29 ACT and 58% had over a 3.75 GPA (don’t know if that’s weighted) according to the College Board) of the incoming class. It’s worth a shot, but I would proceed carefully. In addition, most of the true scholarships (merit or activity-based) had deadlines for application in January, and are already awarded (I presume). Personally, I would ask about need-based aid, if you think you might meet the requirements. It’s usually much more flexible.</p>
hope that helps</p>