I’m a prospective engineering student and I was wondering if anyone has some suggestions for schools that offer considerable financial aid that excel at engineering, I am not a viable candidate at schools like Stanford, MIT, and the upper half of the Ivies, but a reasonably high reach school for me would be a Cornell or UC Berkeley to give you something to gauge off of!
Are you from a low income family or a middle class family with bills? The first should apply to schools that meet need (wikipedia has a list). The second should be looking for schools with good merit aid. In both cases you need high scores and grades. What is your home state?
I live in Florida and my total yearly income is near 40k a year (single father situation)
SAT: 2060 (V-660 M-750 W-650) and I plan to take it once more after studying the english portions quite a bit
Also if class rank matters I have a strong possibility of graduating in the top 10 of a class of 508 students
Thank you for the help!
You would get free tuition plus a few thousand dollars at Alabama. A full ride at Howard.
Your SATs would give you full tuition at Alabama, though you’d have to come up with room and board. DS would have applied there if it weren’t so far from New York. What about are your state schools? Also, UVA meets full demonstrated need, though DS (accepted with similar stats and income) is still waiting to hear what that will actually mean.
Forgive me for the question, but is your mother still alive? The schools that meet full need will require the CSS Profile, and they’ll want one from her too.
Your stats would get you full rides to Howard, Prairie View, ULouisiana, Troy, Louisiana Tech, Florida A&M confirm this, Alabama State and Tuckegee. Look under the financial aid section here for a pinned low cost thread to get to the automatic scholarships. I can’t link on my phone.
I planned on applying to UVA and yes my mother is still alive just “not in the picture” for she has struggled with substance abuse and is there a dollar value associated with Alabama? I’m not interested in historically black schools such as Howard and Florida A&M but thank you for the suggestions!
@Jcannon1023 Alabama tuition is around 13k. With the scholarship your tuition would be paid for as costs increase. Engineering majors receive an extra $2500.
@mom2collegekids Can you help with more info for Alabama. What do about the NCP?
OP’s SAT score will qualify him or her for the UA Presidential Scholarship.
If the OP’s GPA (weighted) is 3.5 or above.
@Jcannon1023, for schools that required the CSS Profile, I believe you will have to try to get a waiver for the NCP if you can’t get forms from her. I don’t now how hard that is; I’ve seen people here on CC say that it’s difficult, but possible. But schools that only require the FAFSA won’t need her paperwork. Happily, Alabama is one of them, and I know that there are many others.
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Alabama tuition is around 13k. With the scholarship your tuition would be paid for as costs increase. Engineering majors receive an extra $2500.
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@gearmom
that is not Alabama’s tuition. Instate is around $10k per year and OOS is about $25-26k per year. This student is OOS, so tuition is about $25k-26k per year.
If Bama doesn’t change its awards, then this student would get free tuition (dollar value rising as tuition rises, but around $26k now)…and $2500 per year for eng’g.
NCP doesn’t matter for Bama, but it would for schools like cornell.
OP…schools like Berkeley are not affordable.
Cornell is an ivy and a reach for everyone.
Read the UA forum here it is loaded with information.
NCP - either your provide the info, and if they are low income all the better, OR you ask for a waiver which is ot a given that you will get it, it requires documentation of no contact or abuse. If you do not provide info or get the waiver then you have to apply to FAFSA only schools that will base aid on custodial parent only. Or get merit like at Alabama.
Did you calculate if your are Pell Grant eligible? Also have you heard of Questbridge? If you apply there you can have a boost to your application. UVA is a partner school.
I’ve recently started filling out the questbridge scholarship and it’s quite extensive, I think I’m going to finish it sometime this week and I am not particularly interested in the U of Alabama for those continuing to mention it, but thank you all for the stellar links and information! And I have not calculated the Pell Grant.
Also valuable information: I qualify for the highest level I FL Bright Futures scholarship and have a competitive resume for the U of Florida which my family has already agreed to send me too if out of state isn’t an option come decision time, saying this: I would choose a school like UF over an Alabama or any of the Full-Ride schools above, In working to raise my stats and diversify and augment my application as a whole, I’ll try and get closer to reach schools that can fulfill demonstrated need, as of now I realize I’m pretty out of the way for UVA and Cornell and others of the like, but knowing UF is a safety net can give me room for risk in applying to reaches (also I have automatic admission into UCF through the top 10 Knights program)
Here is a basic overview of my “profile” thus far:
•Junior: White Male who lives in Florida but would prefer out of state schools
•Major: Nuclear/Chemical/Or really any type of—> Engineering
•SAT: 2060 (M-750 V-660 W-650)
•2-Score: 1410
•GPA: 3.82 (5.55 weighted)
•AP Courses (* by ones yet to be taken): Human Geography, Environmental Science, World History, Psychology, US History, Physics 1, English Language Composition, Statistics, Chemistry, BC Calc (covers Calc 1 and 2 at my school), Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Comparative Politics, US Government
•Extra Circulars: Varsity Basketball, President and founder of school’s only nonpartisan political debate club, Vice President of class, Science, Math, and Social Studies honor society member (Leadership in Science), member of student body executive board government branch (36 students of roughly 2500), Best Buddies club (works with special needs kids), Teens against drugs and alcohol, Math Tutor, youth basketball coach
•Additional Information: I placed top 25 in the state at a geography trivia competition ran by National Geographic and Google (GeoBee) at Jacksonville University in 8th grade, I know it’s not high school but would I be able to include it in my applications? Also this summer I’m most likely going to be attending an engineering camp at a university for a week or two. Also I am a designated “AP Scholar with Honors” meaning I’ve passed at least 3 AP exams
Does anyone have some schools I should look into? Also there is a relatively high chance I will crack my class’ top 10 by next semester if that has any weight in suggestion
Will she be cooperative with financial aid forms? Many private schools, particularly those with good financial aid, require CSS Profile and the non-custodial parent information (UVA also requires CSS Profile, but it is not clear from its web site whether non-custodial parent information is required). This can be a problem for you at these schools if she is uncooperative (or if she has high income or assets but won’t pay).
Try University of Rochester, RPI. Stevens Institute, WPI and run the aid calculators. Use geography to your advantage. Use Early Decision to get the best package. A low income minority student will have admissions and FA advantages. You might have a better shot than you think at the most selective schools, particularly private schools. You have a compelling story so use it.
OP would provide geographical and socio-economic diversity but is not URM.
Look at 100 need colleges where a 40k income would pretty much mean a full ride.
She is cooperative