<p>Right now i am a senior in high school and want to major in engineering, preferably chemical or civil. I have a few colleges already ready to send applications to like </p>
<p>Purdue
IIT
Wisconsin-Madison
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Georgia Tech
Marquette
UIC
Iowa State</p>
<p>My GPA (weighted) - 4.489
unweighted - 3.75</p>
<p>Took many AP classes - us history, government, econ, AP calc AB + BC, physics, junior english and senior english, taking AP psych next semester.</p>
<p>ACT score is 27, reading brought me down a little.
The best colleges i would like to apply to are around the midwest and hopefully get some good scholarships (have a twin brother so parents will not be likely to pay for much). </p>
<p>Which of these schools (or others) will probably give me the most grants or financial aid if any.</p>
<p>You already have a thread about this.</p>
<p>NO, those OOS publics will not give you aid to cover their high OOS costs. Why would they bother to charge those high OOS costs if they were just going to hand out aid to cover those high costs. That would be nutty.</p>
<p>Your ACT 27 is going to prevent you from getting scholarships at those schools. </p>
<p>You need to look at schools where your 27 is well-within the top quartile of the school. At the schools that you’re looking at, your score is average, so not scholarship-worthy.</p>
<p>Your parents need to sit down and run the NPC’s on schools’ websites and determine what is affordable. They also need to figure out how much they can pay for each twin. If it’s little to none, then you may have to commute to a local school.</p>
<p>Try the NPC on Marquette’s website with your parents. It’s a private, but doesn’t meet need. </p>
<p>You’re instate for IL…look at schools other than UIUC.</p>
<p>What is your home state? Few public universities offer much merit or financial aid to OOS students. I know Purdue won’t offer any merit aid to an OOS ACT score like that.</p>
<p>Schools award merit based on test scores…your AP classes, etc, hardly matter and often won’t be considered at all.</p>
<p>This is how it usually works…</p>
<p>There is a huge pool of students with high GPAs.</p>
<p>There is a smaller pool of students with high test scores.</p>
<p>There is an even smaller pool of students who have both high test scores plus high GPAs. Those are the ones given merit scholarships. If the school needs to further down-select from this pool, then they may consider ECs, diversity, region, etc. </p>
<p>But, you need to have the high test scores foremost.</p>