<p>Well, Cooper Union can be added to the list.</p>
<p>However, just having free tuition will not solve all issues. There are many schools that give free tuition for stats. </p>
<p>NYC has very expensive housing, so room, board, books, transportation and misc costs would be sizable for this student…probably about $18k per year - at least!</p>
<p>He can only borrow about $5500 his first year. He’d have a big gap. </p>
<p>Do we know what kind of campus life this student wants?</p>
<p>But the price for living in NYC and supporting myself there will make up for the price of tuition at Cooper Union.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>not sure what you mean with that.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten rid of some schools with mainly FA.
Do y’all want my recent list?</p>
<p>Oh, and my sibling will be a senior. She’s found a school she loves and that will give her a lot of merit aid.</p>
<p>Glad to hear that your sis found a school with good merit. Do you mind sharing which school that is and what kind of merit she is getting?</p>
<p>Yes, let’s see your new list.</p>
<p>Sure. Oklahoma City University. With her ACT score and GPA right now, she’ll start out with around 15,000 a year. It may rise, but idk right now.</p>
<p>Bradley
Bucknell
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
Clemson
UConn
Cooper Union
Georgia Tech
Illinois IT
Iowa State
Kansas
Lafayette
Lehigh
Marquette
Missouri S&T
Northeastern
Oklahoma State
Purdue
Rice
Rochester
Rochester IT
Rose-Hulman IT
Rowan
Saint Louis
Southern Methodist
Stevens IT
UT-Dallas
Texas A&M
Trinity (Texas)
Tulsa
Villanova
Virginia Tech
Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Oklahoma State and Tulsa are my in-state schools.</p>
<p>Why are the following still on your list? I don’t believe they will give you scholarships to significantly reduce costs.</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Madison
Clemson (they might give you “ins-state” rates, but how would you pay COA (about $25k for an instate student)?
UConn
Georgia Tech (few merit except for really high stats)
Purdue (scholarships won’t be big enough)</p>
<p>Is Oklahoma St going to be your financial safety? Would you be happy there?</p>
<p>Where are some schools that you KNOW you will get ASSURED scholarships for certain stats?</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but this is what I’m thinking…</p>
<p>Since an OOS school is going to cost between $30k - 50k per year, and your parents can’t pay their EFC (which is high), you need to have schools where your tuition will get covered by scholarships, so that you can pay for room, board, books, etc with fed student loans, income from summer work/part-time job, and a small amount from parents.</p>
<p>For instance - </p>
<p>Purdue…their scholarships for OOS students range from $2k per year to $16k per year (for super stats). </p>
<p>but, Purdue’s Cost of attendance for an OOS student is $40k per year
[Purdue</a> University Division of Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.purdue.edu/dfa/all/cost.php]Purdue”>http://www.purdue.edu/dfa/all/cost.php)</p>
<p>So, even if you graduate with super stats, and you get the $16k per year, you will still have to come up $24k per year. How would you do that?</p>
<p>In all honesty, I have not gone over everything with all the schools on my list. I like these schools, but I have not gotten to look at all the info yet for each school.</p>
<p>Yes, I would be happy at Oklahoma State. I have been on the campus and have really liked it. I believe it will be my financial safety.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Well, to keep your options open, I think you should apply to 2-3 schools (at least) that you will know that will give you BIG merit for your stats. </p>
<p>That way, you’ll still have a choice if the other schools are just impossible financially.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Rose-Hulman, I think I mentioned, gives up to half-tuition, and no more. Not that half-tuition is anything to sneeze at, but Cost of Attendance at Rose is nearly $52,000, with tuition at around $36,000. So, if they considered you the best of the best and awarded you their very top scholarship of $18,000, you’d still have a $34,000 per year bill. That’s why my son had to take it off his list.</p>
<p>I did call the school for him before he took it off. He does have the stats to potentially get a school’s top merit awards. BUT, Rose’s FA office assured me that half-tuition is their very top award, period. And so it had to go.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Bradley, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, UT Dallas, and U Tulsa all give very good merit aid to exceptional students. If you’re a National Merit Finalist, you’ve got a pretty good chance with all of them for receiving great merit aid. (They’re not all “guaranteed” aid, however. But they will be generous.) Hopefully you’ll do a great job on the PSAT this coming October!</p>
<p>SMU is another very good school for merit aid.</p>
<p>When I talked with my parents the other day, they had told me that it’d be better if the school is close-ish. Mainly because flying or other transportation will be too expensive to and from home. So I’m thinking that most of the far away schools will be dropped from the list…</p>
<p>Oh. That’s kind of sad. But it’s very good that you and your parents are having all these talks now – and that you’re doing so much research on your own. Sounds like you’re going to make some very good decisions for yourself and there will be far fewer surprises come senior year – thanks to all the work you’re putting into this.</p>
<p>Btw, I couldn’t agree with mom2college kids more. You need 2 or 3 schools that you will like AND that you will likely afford because of pretty “predictable” (or even better, guaranteed!) merit aid. Then, you can add other schools on top of that and see what happens. If you’ll be happy at the first 2 or 3 on your list and can afford them – well then, you’ll know that at the very “worst,” you’ll be attending one of them. That’s a great approach.</p>
<p>Well they weren’t 100% set on it, and I do see where they’re coming from. It’s kinda taking away some opportunities far away, but I’ve got some pretty good places I can go not too far away but a good distance away. I mean, it’ll be at least 3+ hours of driving for any of these places, but I’d be perfectly happy there.</p>
<p>I understand your parents concern at first blush…but let me tell you this…</p>
<p>I have a friend in the Northeast who had the same concern about transportation costs for her son to go 1000+ miles away to school. However, once it became obvious that his big scholarships more than made up for any transportation costs, she’s now thrilled!</p>
<p>BTW…one school even threw in an extra $4k per year on top of his big scholarship to cover airfares for the student and one trip for parent for move in day. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Luckily, you’re in Oklahoma - kind of in the middle of the US. That gives you a good radius to choose from that is within driving distance or a low-cost plane or train fare. </p>
<p>Apply to some schools that will give you big merit. After you have the money info, then you can determine whether travel costs will be an issue.</p>
<p>Hey that’s pretty nice to know.
Thank you mom2collegekids! :)</p>