<p>I am in my Junior year of high school. I would like to get into a large engineering school but I am learning from my parents that they can not afford the schools I want to get into. Can anyone give me information on scholarships and how I could receive them.</p>
<p>Those are publics and they don’t give much/any financial aid to out of state students. </p>
<p>They do give some merit scholarships, but generally only to those with high test scores and usually that’s not enough to cover most costs.</p>
<p>I am learning from my parents that they can not afford the schools I want to get into.</p>
<p>Is that because you’re low income or is it because your family has a good income, but can’t contribute much?</p>
<p>You need a strategy based on your situation. If your family has a good income, but can’t pay a lot, then you need to find out how much they can pay.</p>
<p>You need to get the best GPA and the highest test scores that you can. Start practicing.</p>
<p>Then you need to find the schools that will give you the largest merit scholarships for your stats.</p>
<p>Private scholarships are not going to help much because they’re hard to get and often only for frosh year. You’d be short your other 3 years. If you need large merit scholarships, then you need to apply to the schools that give them for your stats.</p>
<p>If you’re low income, but you have high stats, then you need to apply to the privates that meet need.</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>There are two kinds of financial aid. Merit aid (sometimes called scholarships) which are awarded based upon largely your GPA and SAT/ACT scores. (And occasionally other factors like diversity, community service, geographic location, National Merit status.) And need-base aid which is based upon your family income and assets.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech and Purdue are both state universities. (Supported by taxes of the states they’re located in.) For the most part, state universities don’t have much of either merit aid or need-based aid to offer to out of state students. </p>
<p>For a large engineering program, your least expensive option is usually the flagship university of the state where you live.</p>
<p>If you can tell us your GPA, any test scores you have (like PSAT), what state you live in and what kind of budget your parents have set for college expenses, people here can make some suggestions for you.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA = 3.5 (I am going to bring this up my senior year with 6-7 ap classes)</p>
<p>State = Florida</p>
<p>My mom is a single parent with a yearly income of about $90,000. Her plan is to retire from the national guard in 5-6 years.</p>
<p>My goal is to finish high school with 300-400 service hours. (Im taking suggestions on what to do for my hours)</p>
<p>I dont know what my PSAT scores were.</p>
<p>It seems that my only option would be Embry Riddle which is one of the last places I want to go.</p>
<p>If you’re a junior, then you would have taken the PSAT this month and you wouldn’t have gotten your scores back yet. </p>
<p>When are you taking the SAT and ACT? Take both!!! What is your GPA so far?</p>
<p>Since your mom makes a decent income, you’ll have a highish EFC. What size is your family? Has your mom remarried? If so, then your SD’s income will count as well.</p>
<p>How much will your mom contribute? Will your dad contribute?</p>
<p>*my only option would be Embry Riddle which is one of the last places I want to go. *</p>
<p>If you have the grades and stats for Purdue and GT, then you probably have the stats for a good scholarship elsewhere.</p>
<p>Service hours are nice, but they’re probably not going to make much/any difference for merit scholarships since those are mostly SAT/ACT and GPA driven.</p>
<p>My mom has not remarried.</p>
<p>I will be taking the SAT and ACT as many times as I can but im not sure when. (Im studying for them now)</p>
<p>Family: Its always been my mom, grandma, uncle, and I. We dont socialize with our other family members.</p>
<p>It’s very likely only your mom and you will count as your household for FAFSA. With an income of $90k, your EFC will be highish.</p>
<p>Study for the SAT and ACT…you need the best scores possible. Did you take the PSAT this month?</p>
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AP classes usually bring up the weighted average, not the unweighted average. Most colleges take your unweighted average and recalculate a weighted average using their own weightings (because there are so many differences in how different schools weight classes).</p>
<p>Ar you eligible for the Florida bright futures scholarships? An instate university may be your best bet. Even if you bring up your GPA, you are not likely to bring them up high enough to be eligible for high merit aid at an out of state public university. Your income is too high for federal state grant aid and most out of state public Us will not meet need for OOS students (most don’t even meet it for in state students).</p>
<p>Senior grades don’t do much since the app process only includes one sem grades</p>
<p>I thought I took my PSAT sophomore year but maybe not.</p>
<p>The PSAT sophomore year is just for practice, it does not count for anything. To have any chance of qualifying for National Merit you would have to have taken it Junior year. Sounds like you didn’t (it was just 2-3 weeks ago so you would hopefully remember if you had).</p>