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- She was accepted to CORNELL’S Curie Academy (week-long women engineering seminar/camp) last summer and that has confirmed her desire to study engineering and apply to CORNELL. She received a application fee waiver as a result.
- SAT scores: 700 reading, 710 math, 640 writing
- SAT subject tests will be taken in Oct
Her top choices right now are:
- Cornell
- Virginia Tech (oldest daughter attended there)
- NC State
- Georgia Tech
- University of Florida
We are ideally looking for a school that could offer close to a full-ride (with financial aid, scholarship), last resort would be the D of E loans which can be maxed out to $12,500 a year
Considering community college for the year until in-state tuition is eligible…last option
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The above info is very strange. It appears that you want lots of merit, but applied to many schools that give little or none.
Then you mention attending a CC for first year while waiting for in-state. Do you realize that if she goes to a CC for a year, she’ll have little or NO merit opportunities? Merit, especially the good-sized ones are for incoming freshman only.
Your DD may need to take a gap year, get residency and/or apply to a list of schools that will get you what you want.
As for loans…your DD can get:
$5500 as a freshman…she can’t get $12,500.
If you have bad credit, then she can get $9500 as a freshman…but only if your credit is bad.