<p>Perhaps The University of New Orleans? Its engineering program is ABET-accredited and it offers really good scholarships that are not hard to get.</p>
<p>Was he a commended scholar? If so Wright State University in Dayton Ohio would give him full tuition room and board for 4 years. He would need to name Wright State as his first choice. They do have Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Good luck.</p>
<p>To get 1/2 tuition from USC, the OP needs to have an SAT score of at least 2200. Even then, the cost of USC would still be out of OPs. Price range.</p>
<p>The Wright State scholarship covers in-state tuition, plus room and board.</p>
<p>Ah, very good. We are in state so I hadn’t caught that before. Sorry.</p>
<p>I think you should check out Wright States scholarship page. It’s definitely worth a call. It looks to me if they have a trustees scholarship which would cover in state tuition, room board and books and then you could stack an out of state scholarship to up to 40% of the differential. Their out of state tuition is only about $8000 or so more than their instate tuition. If he received all the scholarshipsit looks as though he would net out around $4-5k /yr. Easily within the amount he can borrow or even earn if that would be necessary. To qualify it looks as if hewould need to bring his SAT up slightly ( to around 1330), but his class rank would be fine. Wright State is in a suburban part of Dayton next to Wright Patterson AF Base. It’s easily accessible from I 70 if your coming from PA.</p>
<p>Since the family has an unaffordable EFC and can contribute about $5k (plus a $5500 student loan and some Pell money), the strategy should be something like this…</p>
<p>1) try to raise scores </p>
<p>2) Identify schools that will give full tuition PLUS awards. Partial tuition awards will leave the family with a gap that cant get covered.</p>
<p>3) Apply to a range of full-ride, near-full ride, and tuition PLUS competitive merit schools.</p>
<p>4) Apply to 2-3 schools that FOR SURE will give more than full tuition as safeties.</p>
<p>there are many schools that will give merit, but if they wont give enough, applying to them will be a waste of valuable time and money. </p>
<p>I was under the impression that Pitt is nearly as expensive as Penn State for Pennsylvanians. I believe Pitt is better with merit money, but the in-state tuition would not fit my definition of “cheap” at $17,000+ a year!</p>
<p>Yeah, Pitt is not cheap even for in-state. Our Net Cost came to around $22K. There are competitive scholarships that range from $2K to Full Tuition, room &board, but to even be considered he would need a CR&M of 1450 or ACT of 33. </p>
<p>I would consider this a financial reach, like Penn State. I am trying to minimize his list, the application fees can add up quickly, and don’t want to waste money on lots of reaches.</p>
<p>I am trying to narrow down the list, and a few of the schools mentioned were on it. I will do more research on them.</p>
<p>I am trying to stress the importance of the testing and his need to study for them, but DS16 is sooooo laid back, which frustrates me no end. A little more effort he could probably move up in HS rankings as well, but he says the top kids are totally nutty about their grades, he doesn’t care, if he has to become like them. </p>
<p>I don’t want him to stress out over these things, but in our position, he needs to make more effort. </p>
<p>How reliable are the Net Price Calculators for the colleges? </p>
<p>Also, on the Full Ride/Full Tuition thread, I only see three schools that actually list OOS rates. So do the other school awards only apply to in state? or do OOS students get the same awards?</p>
<p>The general feeling is the NPCs are accurate if you don’t own your own business or have exotic financial issues. As far as the full ride thread, the full ride is offered to those students who meet the requirements. You can use the link to the school web site to verify.</p>
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<p>Unless otherwise noted, the awards are available to OOS. In cases where the In-State and OOS awards are different, that is noted.</p>