<p>I appreciate the advice, but settling for Madison is bad enough when I wanted to go to Stanford. There’s no way I’d be okay with myself and my decisions if I went to MATC. I’ll make something work with scholarships.</p>
<p>Oh good heavens. Don’t take after your dad and be so short-sighted.</p>
<p>You’re not going to be able to “make things work with scholarships”. There aren’t entities out there awarding tens of thousands of dollars each year to children of affluent parents (besides the military). That would be nutty.</p>
<p>Schools like Stanford cost $60k per year. Your parents are giving you a small fraction of that. No way in heck will you find outside scholarships of $45k per year. Not happening. You’d not likely find them even if you had significant need, but not having any need really puts you out of consideration.</p>
<p>Go ahead and apply to Stanford “just to see,” but chances are that you wont even be admitted so that could be totally moot. If you apply to Stanford and aren’t admitted, then what???</p>
<p>I mean find scholarships to go to UW Madison, instead if going to MATC like it was mentioned. There’s nothing wrong with Madison, it’s a fantastic school! It’s just that when compared to Stanford, it doesn’t really shine as much, ya know?</p>
<p>I’m sure I can find 10K in scholarships to cover Madison. If I spend the next two years applying to every “small” scholarship I see, I’ll surely build at least a little money. Also, my school district has a scholarship award program, so hopefully when I graduate valedictorian I will earn a couple thousand or more there too.</p>
<p>Many of the smaller outside scholarships are one year scholarships.</p>
<p>Look in terms of about $50,000 (or more due to college cost inflation) you need to cover all four years of Wisconsin based on your parents’ contribution. You can borrow at most $31,000 in direct loans, of which $23,000 may be at subsidized rates.</p>
<p>Many of the smaller outside scholarships are one year scholarships.</p>
<p>exactly…</p>
<p>Look at the 'fine print" of all those “small scholarships”, you’ll see that they’re for FRESHMAN year only. </p>
<p>even any School District scholarships for being Val will be a one time only scholarship.</p>
<p>you’re going to find that ONCE you’re a current student, the scholarship well dries up except for maybe some one time awards from your dept major. One year one of my sons got a $800 dept award (one year only) for being the top math major. My other son got a one-time $2000 dept award for Chemical Eng’g. </p>
<p>You’re not going to find $10k per year in private scholarships…not for 4 straight years. </p>
<p>All you have to do is go back to last spring’s threads and see that TOP students (w/o need) are lucky to cobble together $5k in outside scholarships…and ONLY for one year.</p>
<p>which $23,000 may be at subsidized rates.</p>
<p>NONE of his will be subsidized since he has ZERO need. So, no subsidized interest for him.</p>
<p>It sounds like your parents haven’t grasped the change in college costs since they went. 20-30 years ago you could easily work your way through a public school if your parents paid half. Not so much now.</p>
<p>One school to look at is USC if your test scores are high enough - they give out 100 full tuition scholarships a year and the Viterbi engineering school is very good. Even with full tuition $12500 doesn’t cover other costs - LA is expensive - but it gets you close.</p>
<p>One school to look at is USC if your test scores are high enough</p>
<p>Yes…but test scores need to be in the ACT 35-36 range to be CONSIDERED. My friend’s D (no need) was counting on some merit at USC with an ACT 35 (female eng’g) and Val of her class. She got ZILCH. Shocking. She’s at MIT.</p>