<p>Hello everyone! I am a high school junior and I am looking to go into engineering (probably biomedical). I am not going to get any financial aid but my parents have decided that they are not paying for college or co-signing for any loans. Since going to a good college is one of my dreams I need to get merit aid. I have a 4.2 GPA and have done exceptionally well in my science classes. I have done more than 100 hours of hands on research and tons of community service. I have saved around $40000 for college and will probably get $20000 more from a scholarship from my school. Are there any schools that would be likely to give me generous merit aid? I am applying to uconn, case western, Cornell, rpi, wpi, rice, and tufts. Thanks in advance for your response!</p>
<p>University of Hartford has a fine engineering program and might offer you some decent merit aid.</p>
<p>What about your scores? If you have great scores, there are schools out there which might require you only to pay for room and board.</p>
<p>Cornell has zero merit aid. Rice, RPI, WPI, Case have merit money but it would be rare for them to cover full tution, let alone extend it to room and board. So in the most likely half tuition scenario, you will end up with 30-40k /year tab. I don’t know much about UConn or Tufts.</p>
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<p>What is your home state and what are your ACT/SAT scores?</p>
<p>What about Pitt? They have a good rep in biomedical and give pretty good merit to OOS with good stats.</p>
<p>Pitt has gotten much more unpredicatable about merit. Very high stats are needed, and even then cannot be assured.</p>
<p>Many of the schools on your list don’t give any merit. </p>
<p>What are your test scores?</p>
<p>Are you certain that your school is going to give you $20k? That seems strange. </p>
<p>You need a huge amount of merit since your savings aren’t even going to cover room and board. You need at LEAST a full tuition scholarship.</p>
<p>Your list needs to be revamped otherwise you’re going to have a lot of unaffordable schools.</p>
<p>Your home state most likely has a public University with a good engineering program. Your best bet is using funds on hand and paying instate tuition or maybe an instate scholarship. There are plenty of top names like Georgia Tech that dole out a few scholarships but the competition is intense-squared. Dream of the big name but also apply instate. GL</p>
<p>If you’re interested in biomedical, I’d suggest taking a look at UA-Birmingham. That’s their strength . . . and they offer generous automatic merit awards.</p>
<p>BioMedE? Are you premed? </p>
<p>Don’t limit yourself to schools with BioMedE if you need huge merit scholarships. That major, as an undergrad, isn’t specifically necessary. If you want to go to med school, then that major certainly isn’t necessary. If you want to go to grad school for BiomedE, then an undergrad degree in MechE or ChemE will get you there as well.</p>
<p>When you need huge merit, don’t limit yourself to a major that isn’t offered at many places that give huge merit, which you NEED.</p>
<p>Boston University will give you 30k a year merit but TC is 58k. But they also don’t have biomedical…i think.</p>
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<p>Where in the world are you coming up with this prediction??? Getting this generous a merit award from BU is only slightly more likely than winning the lottery!</p>
<p>Boston University will give you 30k a year merit but TC is 58k. But they also don’t have biomedical…i think.</p>
<p>This post makes no sense. LittleMissy hasn’t even posted her test scores, so there’s no way to predict merit at any school, much less BU which doesn’t have assured merit.</p>
<p>I am not going to get any financial aid but my parents have decided that they are not paying for college or co-signing for any loans</p>
<p>the student has to deal with this. </p>
<p>The student has $40k saved for college (how did she save that much? 
That’s $10k per year.</p>
<p>Without a co-signer, she can borrow $5,500 from a Stafford Direct fed loan. So, she has about $15k or so to deal with. That covers room and board and maybe books/fees. </p>
<p>That means that she needs AT LEAST a full tuition scholarship. if she has high enough test scores, and will major in an Eng’g discipline other than BiomedE, Alabama would give her full tuition plus $2500 per year. (She could major in ChemE or MechE and take some extra bio classes that support biomedE (Tissue engineering, Cell Bio, etc).</p>
<p>If you consider Pitt, know they are on rolling admissions - so the early apps (eg. before mid-October if possible) get more favorable scholarship results. SAT scores are important (1450 CR+M min) plus top 5% of class ranking to be successful. It is an incredibly easy non-CA application so OP should put that app in and throw the dice. For bioE, they have incredible research opportunities for undergrads.</p>
<p>Consider Clarkson (NY) for merit aid, biomedical is not a major there.
However Clarkson is always trying to boost the number of female students. :)</p>
<p>Entomom knows a good bit about UPitt’s merit. Her D had very high test scores (I think around ACT 35), but wasn’t given the full tuition merit at Pitt because she wasn’t top 2% of her class (or something like that). And, her D offered regional and URM diversity. Hopefully, Entomom can chime in.</p>
<p>This student needs a full tuition scholarship. Partials aren’t likely going to be enough.</p>
<p>For Pitt, DS received a full tuition scholarship. He had 35 ACT, school did not rank but highly competitive magnet school plus we were OOS. The threshold for Pitt scholarships have definitely increased over the years (older DS also received a Full tuition scholarship). </p>
<p>Nothing is set in stone at Pitt – there have been exceptions to the ranking/high test score – it just depends on what Pitt is looking for and if you fill the bill.
Definitely apply early – the earlier the better – both DS applied in July during one of the Pitt scheduled programs.</p>
<p>I recommend taking a closer look at these schools. All have ABET accredited Biomedical Engineering programs and give significant merit aid.</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve University
Clemson University
Drexel University
Louisiana Tech University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
North Carolina State University
Purdue University
Rutgers
Texas A&M University
Tulane University
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Louisville
University of Memphis
University of Miami
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
Washington State University
Washington University at St. Louis
Worcester Polytechnic Institute</p>
<p>I would also take a look at these schools - they do not typically offer huge merit aid, but they have very reasonable tuition even for OOS:</p>
<p>SUNY-Binghamton
Stony Brook University
University of Minnesota</p>