I thought it would be helpful for future applicants to get an idea of scholarship awards. If anyone is willing to share join in.
Major: undeclared stem
honors college: yes
ACT: 32
SAT II: Physics 800 & Math 2 800
GPA: 3.9UW/4.0
Race: white
Sex: male
Award:
Drexel Grant $5790
AJ Drexel Scholarship $19,620
Drexel Legacy: $3000
Major: Biological Sciences
Honors College: Yes
SAT: 2110
GPA: 3.89 UW/4.1 W
Race: Indian
Sex: Female
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship $21,750
Major: Biological Sciences
Honors College: No
ACT: 31
GPA: 3.85
Race: Indian
Sex: Male
Award:
Drexel Grant $12,450.00
AJ Drexel Scholarship $17,700.00
Major: Mechanical Engineering
honors college: yes
ACT: 34
SAT II: Math 2 800
GPA: 3.97 UW/4.0 (4.40 W)
Race: white
Sex: female
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship $22,920
I wonder why I didn’t get into the honors program lol
@Emotive @baxter @priya107 anyone know what they wanted for the honors college, and how many people usual get in?
@helloworld148 Check out this link: http://drexel.edu/pennoni/honors/applying/faqs/
By my estimate, about 350 of incoming freshmen are accepted to the program.
Major: Physics
honors college: Yes
SAT: 2290
SAT Math II: 770
SAT Physics: 760
SAT US History: 780
GPA: 3.89 UW/4.0 (4.32 W)
Race: Asian
Sex: Male
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship $23,820.00
Major: Psychology
Honors College: no
SAT: 1550
GPA: 3.04
Race: White
Sex: Female
Award:
Drexel Grant $22,350
AJ Drexel Scholarship $1,830
Major: Biological sciences
honors college: yes
SAT: 2380
SAT II: BIO M 740 & Math 2 710
GPA: 3.94 UW/4.0
Race: Asian
Sex: female
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship $25,710
Major: Accounting BS/MBA
honors college: No
ACT: 29
SAT II: Didn’t take any
GPA: 3.5UW/4.0 3.7W/4.0
Race: white
Sex: male
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship $16,650
Lots of AP/Honors courses, Great ECs
Major: Undeclared Business
Honors College: No
ACT: 31
SAT II: 780 Math II, 690 USH
GPA: 3.01 UW/4
Race: White
Sex: Male
Tons of APs, ECs and really good recs
Award:
AJ Drexel Scholarship: $13,530
By the way, I’ve heard that Drexel awards full tuition scholarships for National Merit Finalists on top of other awarded scholarships. Can anyone confirm this?
The NMF scholarship award, which was even stacked with other awards in past years to give full or near full rides, disappeared from their website a few months ago. Drexel claimed NMSC made them pull it, but when NMSC was contacted it appeared to only be an issue with the way Drexel named the scholarship that infringed on an NMSC trademark or copyright. Subsequent contacts by parents posted in other places on this site resulted in inconsistent and non-committal answers from Drexel. To my knowledge the NMF Scholarship offer has not reappeared anywhere on Drexel’s website since it was pulled, nor is there any other official mention of it. If you hear anything otherwise, please let us know here, but as of now I am assuming it is not being offered this year.
This may be a dumb question, but are the values for each scholarship for only one semester or will I receive the same amount each semester?
Drexel Grant: $15,000
AJ Drexel Scholarship: $15,000
@degrom48 the scholarships are for the year, divided over both semesters.
I read that the honors college acceptance depends on the major. If you have a popular major, you are less likely to get into the honors college because there are so many students in your major, and they only take a certain percentage of each major. My son met the criteria last year according to what we’ve read, but did not get invited to the honors college.
The grants are need-based, correct?
The largest award I’ve seen on this thread is $30,000 (post #13) per year. The full cost of Drexel is about $61,000 per year according to their website. So even with the largest scholarship/grant combination (best case scenario), Drexel still costs about $31,000 a year? Seems like Penn State and/or Temple are better deals without ANY financial aid. Does Drexel seem expensive to anyone else but me? Am I missing something?
@STEM2017 Received around $51,000 from the A.J. Drexel Scholarship and the Drexel Grant. So, they are out there. Good Luck to everyone.
@ScreenName17 Well done!
@ScreenName17 would you mind sharing your stats ? that would be very helpful for me! it well help me get an idea of what sorts of stats are required if one wants to get a 50K+ scholarship. Thank you