<p>Does anyone know of any good schools for Biology or Engineering majors with full ride possibilities (and deadlines that have not already passed)?</p>
<p>I'm also interested in schools that have full tuition scholarships, if they are good.</p>
<p>I know rankings should never be a deciding factor, but if US News ranks the school below 100, I need a very good reason why I should still be interested.</p>
<p>I've got National Merit, if that helps.</p>
<p>At this point, I already have a good list of dream schools. Now I am looking for schools that might give me enough money to make my dream schools worth passing up.</p>
<p>Do you know about Cooper Union?
It’s one of the best engineering schools in the country. Tuition is free for all students (although the cost of living in NYC is high). The application deadline is Feb. 2 (unusually late). Admissions is extremely selective.</p>
<p>Females interested in engineering should look at RPI, Clarkson University & RIT, all privates in New York, schools that want more females. Don’t know about where they fit in USNWR’s rankings or their languages offered, you would have to research.</p>
<p>Have you checked out the schools that are generous to National Merit, like Alabama & Auburn? Last year, even after the 12/1 deadline had passed some National Merit students were able to get into Bama. Search for poster mom2collegekids for help with Alabama.</p>
<p>Drexel, an up and coming school according to rankings, has a 1/16 due date. They have a competitive full tuition scholarship, but not full ride.</p>
<p>RPI sounds great, but I couldn’t find much info about scholarships on their website and wouldn’t get a big scholarship there anyways.
The max scholarship I found listed at RIT was under 20k/yr, not enough.
Could you tell me more about Clarkson? What makes it special? Do you know anything about scholarships there? (I couldn’t find numbers.) What about foreign languages? (I couldn’t find the right info about them.)</p>
<p>I have been avoiding looking at the south unless I am given a really good reason to check out the school (beyond the aid package alone).</p>
<p>And I am checking out the University of Arizona.
Right now I’m just trying to find one more school that might give me a good deal to rival theirs, so that if I decide that such a low cost is my best option, I still have choices.
Scholarships don’t have to be guaranteed, but they do need to be potentially attainable.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m focusing on merit based scholarships.</p>
<p>I feel like my personality doesn’t fit as well with what I’ve seen of the south.
My personal (and surely false, like any such judgment) stereotype involves too much focus on sports / school spirit (I really don’t care about football), very politically conservative (but not environmentally conservative), not very diverse (at least not in a unified way, if that makes sense), and very hot. My cousin moved to Texas a couple of years ago, and he is always complaining about it.
But this is just the picture that somehow found its way into my head. I had been having trouble narrowing down my options, so I figured that crossing out an entire region of the country would help with that. But if what I’ve said is false (and it probably is), please tell me. I’d love to hear why the south would be perfect for me, particularly if it involved a large scholarship.</p>
<p>Oh no you pretty much summed it up. Its very hot (100+ in the summer is not uncommon), school spirit is huge and so are the rivalries, we tend to be republican, and as for diversity there are quite a few African Americans and while the cultures are different they tend to coexist very well. I guess if you find those things to be negatives then the south is indeed not for you. I just always found those things to be positives.</p>
<p>You might look at Northeastern University. Co-op would probably be great for engineering (maybe not so much for biology…), and National Merit Finalists get an automatic full-tuition scholarship. There’s also a competitive full ride that you might have a chance at. I don’t know what their USNWR ranking is, but I’ve heard it’s possible that it might be too low (the ‘normal’ program is 5 years long, instead of 4, which might mess with the part of the calculations dealing with graduation rates. You can do it in 4 too, but I think the majority take 5.)</p>
<p>The deadline is the 15th, and there is no supplement for it on the Common App. Or it doesn’t have any essays/short answers. One or the other, can’t remember which…</p>
<p>I guess I’ve been more on track than I though I was.
Northeastern and University of Arizona are the two schools with large National Merit scholarships that I am most interested in. I have already applied to Northeastern.</p>
<p>My big question today is if there are any schools (perhaps w/ higher rankings?) that offer large, competitive (not guaranteed) merit scholarships. I figure that if there are schools that already guaranteed me full tuition scholarships, there might be schools that have a chance of giving me full tuition scholarships, if only I apply. </p>
<p>I have applied to some prestigious, need-based-aid-only schools, but think that if accepted I will probably have to turn them down for more affordable options. I would like it if UA and NEU are not my only options at that point. I figure that schools with competitive large scholarships would probably be the better choice, if I was lucky enough to get them. If they are enough of a draw to top students that they don’t guarantee them scholarships, they might be a better academic / student body fit for me.</p>
<p>COA at Clarkson runs about $46,000/year. No language majors or minors.<br>
Application deadline is January 15th. Highest merit award appears to be $15,000, although did not check it thoroughly.</p>