<p>Your son does need to try to bump his ACT because many schools have NOT yet published their merit awards for the next app cycle. You’ve been looking at last year’s awards. The same schools that would give money for your son’s current score, may require a higher score for this next app cycle.</p>
<p>What is S1’s EFC?</p>
<p>*But our experience working with FAFSA has been that even a very slight increase in family income means a HUGE increase in the EFC. *</p>
<p>I don’t see how that can happen to a Pell family. only a small percent of each add’l dollar goes towards EFC. If your H were to get a five thousand dollar raise, are you saying that EFC rises by that much or more???</p>
<p>Howard’s Founder’s Scholarship would be tuition, fees, and room (not board or books); remaining price for board, books, travel, and misc is probably about $9,000 per year (probably at the edge of what a student can come up with using Stafford loans and work earnings). It is not normally considered a “low quality school”. Students are probably less likely to be politically conservative, but more likely to be religious and less likely to binge drink, compared to college students overall.</p>
<p>Yes, there are some HBCU’s that have full rides for those stats. Don’t know if the OP’s son would want to attend a HBCU.</p>