<p>Hi. I'm a high school junior who is interested in attending Washington University in St. Louis after high school. I really want to go to this college, but my family is a low income family. My mom is a single parent and makes less than $10,000 a year. I have two other siblings. One is currently in elementary school and the other attends a community college due to our financial problem. I am just wondering how much financial aid I would receive from wustl. I know this school is really expensive, but I would like to enroll in their pre-med program. I researched that tuition there is around $50,000 per year. Can anyone here give me an estimation of how much financial aid I might receive? Or tell me how much they received with their situation? I heard that wustl offers really good financial aid and I was just wondering if it was true.</p>
<p>Wash U St Louis guarantees to meet the full need of all accepted students…as they compute it to be. If you were to be accepted (very competitive for admissions), I would guess your aid would be good.</p>
<p>I agree with Thumper. Though WashU also has some merit awards, there are not that many of them, so I think the NPC would be fairly accurate. Run your numbers through there and see what you get in terms of expected contribution from your family. </p>
<p>The school is highly selective, so you should also have some other schools, including some that would definitely be affordable and would certainly take you, on your list.</p>
<p>In addition to meeting full need, WashU is also on this list of colleges that commit to not including loans in the financial aid packages of low income students:</p>
<p>[Project</a> on Student Debt: Financial Aid Pledges](<a href=“http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php]Project”>http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php)</p>
<p>But I agree with the above posters that you should definitely expand your list to include at least one school that’s both affordable and that you know you can get into. You might want to start here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html</a></p>
<p>These are schools that guarantee substantial scholarships based purely on your GPA and SAT/ACT score. There are lots of other schools that offer competitive full tuition and full ride scholarships . . . but there’s no guarantee you’ll get them. So, having at least one school on your list with an automatic full tuition or full ride scholarship means you’ll know you have a college you can attend . . . no matter what else happens.</p>
<p>Thank you for all your feedback. Dodgersmom, so if I meet the requirements, those schools automatically give me a full ride to college? Also, why is the ACT score requirement so high and the SAT score needed so low to receive the full scholarship?</p>
<p>The ACT and SAT scores required are comparable. In many cases the quoted SAT score is Critical Reading + Math only, which could be why they look low to you.</p>
<p>The SAT score is out of 2400 and some of the requirements said that I needed a minimum score of 1200 or 1400 to receive a full ride, while an ACT score of 30 is needed out of 36</p>
<p>Read it again. With those numbers the SAT is out of 1600, CR+M.</p>
<p>Oh okay. Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>is your dad still alive? If so, then WashU will consider his income as well.</p>
<p>I have never met my dad and know nothing about him. He isn’t even on my birth certificate.</p>
<p>You should look into Questbridge.org. Wash U is not listed, but there are many other highly selective schools that are looking for qualified low income students. Your application has to be done by the middle of September.</p>
<p>^^^ wrldtravlr is right - look into Questbridge! And do it NOW - they have a scholarship program for juniors that might be really helpful for you - it doesn’t provide money for college, but you could get an all expenses paid trip to go visit a college, or a laptop computer, or free college admissions counseling. Here’s an overview of the program for 11th graders: [College</a> Prep Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/images/stories/pdfs-documents/cps%20%20overview%20and%20instructions.pdf]College”>http://www.questbridge.org/images/stories/pdfs-documents/cps%20%20overview%20and%20instructions.pdf).</p>
<p>And here’s the link to the main Questbridge page for students: [Questbridge:</a> Students](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org/for-students/students-start-here]Questbridge:”>QuestBridge | High School Students).</p>
<p>CC has its own Questbridge forum here: [Questbridge</a> Programs - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/questbridge-programs/]Questbridge”>Questbridge Programs - College Confidential Forums).</p>
<p>And, yes, in answer to your question about the automatic scholarships - if you meet the SAT/ACT and GPA requirements, the scholarship is automatic, so long as your application is filed by the school’s deadline. And you generally can’t combine different sittings of the SAT - so you need to get the qualifying math & reading scores in a single sitting. So, don’t wait too long to take the SAT or ACT, just in case you need to do it again.</p>