<p>Is it possible to get a full ride from Texas (tuition, room & board, etc)? It seems they don't offer too much merit money. I will probably be a National Merit Finalist, have a 4.0 UW GPA, number 1 in class of 530-ish people, but is that good enough for a full ride?</p>
<p>i know a lot of students who have the similar stats as you, and they have received some MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS, if not full. but financial aid and grants depend on your parents' income and etc. not on your merit status. but looking at your stats, i am sure other schools will offer merit scholarships.</p>
<p>are you from texas? i think you get your 1st yr's tuition paid in full for being valedictorian (unless if you're in a private school right now). and then some money for national merit. but, i'm not sure for all 4 years. i think there is the terry scholarship but i'm pretty sure that your financial status plays role.</p>
<p>full rides are a dime a dozen--in other words--you gotta know someone</p>
<p>My son's graduating this month and is near the top of his class, sports, honors, AP, IB. Zilch $ from Texas. His friends who have even more impressive stats--no money from Texas, and we are in state. Texas A&M has given several full rides to kids who didn't get anything from Texas. Everyone wants to go to UT, so A&M has to offer more to pull in the kids. As far as being from out of state, your chances are probably better in your home state. But even with no money coming from Texas, we still chose it over TAMU. I believe that the valedictorian scholarship is an urban legend.</p>
<p>Our val received a full ride for a year to A&M. I was under the impression that it's a state scholarship to all vals...1 yr. free to any Texas school.</p>
<p>Brand is right. Valedictorians get full ride for the 1st year only.</p>
<p>I've never heard of anyone getting a fullride to UT TBH.</p>
<p>Full rides are pretty much only given to athletes. Better start bulking up for football season...</p>
<p>well i live in arizona and my parents are came to the US when they were in their 20's, but now they are making good money so i prob wouldnt be eligible for much need based financial aid (is parents combined income of roughly $120,000 enough for financial aid??). for you out of staters who are going to texas, how much are you paying a year??</p>
<p>UT doesn't give much FA anyways. It's mostly loans.</p>
<p>Your parents would have to be making like less than 40 grand a year combined for you to see any financial aid. Once you get above 60 grand, forget it.</p>
<p>I guess bballpg04 wouldn't mind me asking a similar question....</p>
<p>My parents make less than $20k. Will they even consider any help provided that I'm(will be) a stellar applicant?</p>
<p>My parents made less than 20k the year my freshman year, and I got a full ride for only that year.</p>
<p>If you have good enough grades to get into UT.. and you need financial aid that you probably won't get, I would seriously just go to UTD. They offer you financial aid+ automatic scholarships that will more than likely cover all tuition, and a little bit of housing and they are just as good as UT(contrary to UTSA lol) in engineering atleast.</p>
<p>It would be great if you students at Texas posted how much scholarship money you got, how much you're paying each year, and whether you were in state of out of state. </p>
<p>Texas is a school i am very interested in and i want to know if it will be affordable (considering my in state school Univ of Ariz would be completely free for me) so any help would be appreciated ;)</p>
<p>1510 M+V SAT, top 6%, IS</p>
<p>Got into BHP with only $2500 in scholarship. I would be paying around 16-18k.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I chose UNC-CH instead where I will only be paying room + board and books.</p>
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<p>I dunno. My parents make quite a bit more than 60k per year and I received $1300/yr. scholarship as a transfer applicant to McCombs, which shocked me. It may have not covered much, but it was nice.</p>
<p>You, sir, have ****ed off a lot of people haha.</p>
<p>I guess I'm wondering why you think you should get a full ride or significant scholarship money from the University of TEXAS when you have no financial need or in-state residency. Believe me, its not even a given that you will be ACCEPTED to the University of Texas. Many bright in-state kids who were just outside the 10% margin did not make it in, despite great letters of recommendation, extra-curriculars, AP &IB classes, and SATS. My son's roomate just made it in under the wire. My son was easily accepted, but we didn't even try for scholarship money, because there is no need and we thought it better to save precious resources for someone who truly needed the $$. My husband attended UT as an undergrad, and the scholarships/grants etc were TRULY needed or else he wouldn't have had any resources (single mom with lots of kids, low paying job). This was not the mythical "Full ride" but loans, work study, grants, etc etc. Texas invested in someone who needed it, and because of it, we are doing well, and working in professions that help the people of Texas. But if you have a full ride from your home state, take it.</p>
<p>annn did you get in bhp this yr, top 6% i thought they only accepted like top 1%, congrats though i would have definetly picked bhp</p>