<p>Who got a full ride at a college?</p>
<p>What were your exact stats (GPA, SATs, etc)? </p>
<p>Heres the format:
College for full ride:
GPA:
SATs:
ECs:</p>
<p>Bump anyone?</p>
<p>gotmilk…yours is a VERY open ended question. First…you should also make a distinction between students who receive generous need based financial aid, and those who are getting merit, or merit/needbased combo. </p>
<p>Second…you are not going to get a TON of responses because completely FULL RIDE (including tuition/room/board/fees/expenses) are not all that common given the number of students who apply to colleges each year.</p>
<p>Most of these full ride awards are merit awards that have a separate application/interview process. They are highly competitive.</p>
<p>In most cases, students receiving these awards are at the TIPPY TOP of the applicant pool at the schools awarding these generous amounts of money. So…think…high GPA, aggressive courseload, excellent recommendations and essays, high standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), and often an excellent ability to interview.</p>
<p>Thumper is right. There aren’t that many complete full-rides and there is often a confusion about what is a free ride. Some think getting free tuition is a free ride (it’s not). Some think getting a combo of grants and loans or merit and loans is a free ride (it’s not).</p>
<p>Contribution is $1000, no loans, etc. But scholarships cover work-study and contribution w/ money left over soo…full ride…</p>
<p>just a note that Beautiful nerd’s screenname info indicates he is at Princeton. That financial aid award would therefore be a need based award based on family finances and income…not on GPA/SAT/ECs (although those WERE considered for his admission decision to Princeton).</p>
<p>I got a full ride merit-based scholarship that covered tuition, fees, room, and board. This was in 2004.</p>
<p>College: Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; Howard University, Washington, DC
GPA: 3.67 (weighted - the highest GPAs at my school were in the 4.1 range, so this was actually pretty high in my school and put me in the top 10%)
SAT: 800v, 660m
ECs: Women’s volunteering organization (1 year), literary magazine (1 year), marching/concert band (4 years), constitution competition team (1 year), I can’t remember any other ones because I graduated 6 years ago, but that was the gist of them.</p>
<p>I also got a full tuition scholarship at Agnes Scott College.</p>
<p>I had a friend who graduated the year before me who got a full scholarship (tuition, fees, room, and board) at Emory with a 1510 SAT (think it was 790 verbal and 720 math) and he didn’t have a whole lot of ECs - about average. Think his GPA was around a 3.9 weighted average. (He’s in med school at Penn now - hee). I also had a couple of other friends who got full scholarships to Morehouse College, which is a men’s college across the street from Spelman. Stats were like mine, with generally lower SAT scores (I had the highest SAT score in my graduating class). Nobody at my school did crazy extracurriculars, but we were Magnet students.</p>
<p>I went to high school before the SAT writing section came out.</p>
<p>Most of what determines full-ride is not in your question:
Under represented minority
Essay
Athlete
Locale</p>
<p>Also…</p>
<p>NMF status</p>
<p>My son was offered a full ride plus at SUNY Maritime a few years ago. He had a 3.0 unweighted GPA filled with AP and advanced courses, a 2300 SAT, a varied but non specialized list of ECs. No URM status, app was very bare bones. Clearly he was at the top of the applicant pool there. He did not accept the offer.</p>
<p>IM A GIRL. What kind of guy would use beautifulnerd as a screenname?</p>