<p>I am a high school senior from Illinois. I plan to major in Biomedical Engineering. I am really in need of some serious scholarships! I have a passion for math and science, and I love to learn. I want to attend a good institution that gives good scholarships! Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>Credentials:</p>
<p>-31 Composite ACT
34E
33M
26R
30S</p>
<p>-4.86/5 Unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>-Member of a community service group at my school that does service to better the community's elderly or poor.</p>
<p>-50+ community service hours (Tutoring, church work, soup kitchen, hospital, kids camp, etc.)</p>
<p>-3 years of high school baseball</p>
<p>-1 year of high school football</p>
<p>-Mostly honors and AP courses</p>
<p>-Will have 4 AP classes by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>Too much! lol. According to the UIUC website, IS tuition is $15,258-$20,178 depending on your major. Pretty ridiculous. I’d be on the higher end of that IS tuition too with an engineering major, granted I get accepted into their program.</p>
<p>Yep! And I plan on minoring in neuroscience or something like that, then med school or grad school. Depends on which I would rather go to after my undergrad studies.</p>
<p>Michigan Tech, Montana State, New Mexico Tech are all going to be more than in-state in Illinois for you on the web, but check out the websites and see if there are any auto scholarships based on GPA and SAT. All were cheaper for my son than in-state in Michigan, but he didn’t attend either of those three. Second avenue are the privates that have engineering but check for ABET. Case Western has been generous with aid the past you read their current web info.</p>
<p>Check out University of Alabama. The don’t have biomedical engineering, but they do have chemical and biological engineering and a great pre med advising program.</p>
<p>With you’re stats you would qualify for two thirds tuition. If you make the effort and take the ACT again and raise your reading score to get a 32 composite, you would qualify for full tuition. </p>
<p>Fyi, the trick with the reading on the ACT is quickness and pacing yourself so you can get thru all the passages and questions. Practice and retaking the ACT might help boost your score. Just make sure you do so before the Dec scholarship app deadline!</p>
<p>Iowa State is closer to home and gives good scholarships too. Im not sure if they are automatic, but know of others from Illinois with stats like yours who got scholarships that made Iowa State cheaper than IS at U of I</p>
<p>If those don’t catch your eye, what region of the country are you targeting. You "DO know that as you go down in selectivity you go down in cost…right? The only other option is to chase merit money and getting enough to get your costs down to $15000 + $5500 in federal direct loans is going to be tough. If you tell us what region of the country you are interested in perhaps others can make some suggestions. Alabama is a possibility if you want a big school.</p>
<p>Check out Univ of Alabama at Birmingham… not the party school (and also not nearly as big as the party/football school! They do have a biomed engineering program and one of the top neuroscience schools in the US! I think your ACT gets you full tuition.</p>
<p>For med school and grad school, you do not need to major in BioMedE specifically. BioMedE grad schools accept students with degrees in ChemE, MechE, etc. </p>
<p>BioMedE as an undergrad major can be very limiting. With other eng’g disciplines, you can get a job right out of college. With BioMedE, you pretty much need a grad degree to get a job. </p>
<p>As mentioned above, Alabama would offer you free tuition plus $2500 per year. Your remaining costs would be within your family’s budget. The merit offer is worth about $110k total. Very good.</p>
<p>My son majored in Chemical Engineering at Bama and is now in med school. However, if he had wanted, he could have gone on for a PhD in BioMedE.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids, where have you heardthat BioMed is limiting? How so? It encompasses ChemE, MechE, EE, and Materials Engineering. It is the most well rounded major available. </p>
<p>Also. here are my top schools everyone. (no order)
1.)University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2.)University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
3.) University of Alabama</p>
<p>@ mom2collegekids, How did he like Bama’s ChemE? The program looks pretty great. It seems like the school is much more focused on academics than one would expect.</p>
<p>Purdue. It’s engineering program is nationally recognized, considerably better than UIUC’s. Its out of state tuition is high (29k), but after a year you will be eligible for in state (a mere 9K).</p>
<p>Kns…how WOULD this student be eligible for instate tuition after attending as an OOS student for freshman year? I do think you are wrong about that.</p>
<p>To the OP…what part of the country are you looking at? You’ve received some good suggestions here, but seem not interested in any of them. So…give us a little more guidance.</p>
<p>Mom2…doesn’t this kiddo need a 32 ACT for the full tuition scholarship?</p>
<p>*mom2collegekids, where have you heardthat BioMed is limiting? How so? It encompasses ChemE, MechE, EE, and Materials Engineering. *</p>
<p>It’s actually pretty well known to be limiting. Few jobs available with just a bachelors, so risky if you don’t go to med school or grad school. </p>
<p>With a ChemE, MechE, etc degree, a person can rather easily get a job with just a BS. Not so with biomedE…not many jobs for that major with just a BS. </p>
<p>the thing is, that a chemE, MechE, EE major has a much broader choice of companies that will higher him/her. </p>
<p>There is a post that someone wrote recently better explaining this…I’ll see if I can find it.</p>
<p>“How did he like Bama’s ChemE program.” </p>
<p>He liked it a lot. He was able to spend two summers doing REU’s in BioMedE on other schools’ campuses. (Research Experience for Undergraduates…funded by the Nat’l Science Foundation). Because of his interests, he took Genetics, Tissue Engineering, and other courses that supplemented his biomed interests.</p>
<p>He also completed minors in Bio, chem, and math. </p>
<p>KNS…how would a student be eligible for instate tuition at Purdue after one year? I don’t know Indiana’s policies, but usually the parents would have to move there to get instate rates.</p>