<p>what do you need exactly to be qualified for a full-ride?</p>
<p>There is no way to answer your question. But I will venture...full rides are few and far between and are used to attract the tippy top applicants to schools.</p>
<p>with scores like a 2010 sat (700w,700cr,610m) and a 3.7unw and 4.0w gpa could i get a full ride anywhere?</p>
<p>would it be possible?</p>
<p>Plenty of state schools, UOklahoma might, for one. But that doesn't mean you'd want to go to any of them.</p>
<p>umd college park?? in state</p>
<p>Also, your parents' financial situation can be important as more schools offer "full ride" if parents make less than $X. Of course, many of these schools have tough criteria for admissions. UVA has AccessUVA, if your parents make $40K or less.</p>
<p>The way to find out the answer to your question is to read the thread about merit aid that's pinned to the top of the Parents Forum on CC. Also check the financial aid and merit scholarship web pages at colleges that interest you starting with your state public universities, places where you're most likely to get merit aid based on your stats. </p>
<p>It is very hard to get full rides -- scholarships covering tuition, room, board, books, fees. You typically have to be far higher than the norm of a college offering merit aid to get such good deals.</p>
<p>It would be very difficult.
The UMD site said the average GPA was a 3.86, and whether or not that's weighted/not weighted, it's not far from what you are.
If that's unweighted, you're below the average gpa, which means it will be highly unlikely you'll be offered a full ride.
If that's weighted, you're only .14 above it, which isn't much, and there's likely to be candidates that have better gpa's.</p>
<p>The UMD Banneker Key scholarship is based mostly on SAT scores and to be frank, yours just isn't high enough. Two of my friends got the scholarship last year (I'm instate as well...) and they both had above 2200 SAT.</p>