<p>I believe that I read somewhere that women going into engineering majors easily get scholarships and financial aid that usually pay their full tuition. Can anyone confirm this? If so, does it also apply if one is planning on double majoring, one being Geophysics, and the other being Geological Engineering?</p>
<p>I am also interested. I have seen many college scholarships for engineering prospects but I don't know if one can get it easily! But I hope more knowledgeable people could give some inputs that would be great!</p>
<p>sae has plenty of them.</p>
<p>here is a major one i found from Northrop Grumman </p>
<p>Individual scholarships of $10,000 are being awarded by Northrop Grumman to a qualified graduating high school senior in
Maryland's 23 counties and in the city of Baltimore
(one scholarship in each county; one in Baltimore City)
San Fernando Valley, California
(two scholarships)<br>
San Gabriel Valley, California
(two scholarships)
Fairfield County and New Haven County, Connecticut
(one scholarship in each county)
Seminole and Orange County, Florida
(two scholarships)
Rolling Meadows or Palatine, Illinois
(two scholarships)
Erie or Niagra County, New York
(two scholarships)
Butler or Hamilton, Ohio
(two scholarships)
Albemarle County, Virginia
(two scholarships) </p>
<p>hope that helps</p>
<p>This is in response to the question that women receive more scholarships in Engineering, I do not want to sound to negative here but we just experienced this, this past year. This is my daughter's first year at UVA, she was in a pre-engineering program in high school, graduated 1 out of 430, she was a memeber of the JETS program and the student launch initiative and even built and flew a NASA funded rocket in Huntsville, Alabama and guess what no scholarships for her engineering endeavors. She received scholarships from her High School for being outstanding academic student. Needless to say we were very dissapointed, not only because she worked so hard to graduate with a 4.97 GPA but we could have used the money. I will tell you that the Senator Byrd Scholarship in Virginia is a good one and her High School nominated her for the Girl Scout Teen of Distinction and she got it. I guess what I am saying is we thought the same thing, she is a minority in the prodimanately male world but we were wrong. She applied for the SWE, SAE and was considered an alternate, this one blew our mind. All she can do is keep trying, remember you can apply for certain scholarships all 4 years, maybe this year will be the year for my daughter and I hope for other females out there pursuing Engineering.</p>
<p>Awesome! Thank you both! This is very helpful information.</p>
<p>SWE does have scholarships BUT your child's school and the specific program MUST be on their list or the student can't apply. DD's school is on the list...and some of their engineering majors are as well...but hers is not. Oh well.</p>
<p>Thumper, you are correct some schools do not have SWE offered at their schools, my daughter joined last semester. When we were looking into the different scholarships, this was not listed as a requirement, as a matter of fact SWE is acting on behalf of corporations, such as Honeywell and so forth. We are not sure that now with my daughter being a member will make a difference or not, it shouldn't but we are crossing our fingers. I really believe that where we went wrong is that my daughter applied early decision and last year that was binding at UVA, they knew that they had her no matter what, I contacted the school this past summer to discuss the guide lines for their merit based scholarships and was pretty much told that my daughter is now attending school with all number 1's, we have since found out that this information has been inflated but she is attending the one and only school that she had her heart set on and she is absolutely loving it and money (scholarships) does not buy happiness. Tootsie, keep checking the different web sites such as college board to see what is offered.</p>