Honors/Park scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z North Carolina State University
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<p>Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide: my daughter is a rising senior and is interested in the NC State Honors Program and Animal science major. She is ranked in the top 4 students of almost 500 in a competitive public high school (in Pennsylvania), and her GPA is approximately 4.2 (weighted, which is about as good as you could be due to the number of honors/AP courses she was eligible to take). Her ACT, taken as a sophomore, was a 35. She has taken 5 AP courses (Chem, Eng Lang, Calc BC, US and World History), and gotten all A's and all 5's on her AP tests (except a 4 in World History). SAT2s include Math 2 (750), Literature (740), Chem (780), and Spanish (690). Long term, her career goal is to become a veterinarian, specializing in equine and equine sports medicine and surgery.</p>

<p>Her passion is equestrian, spending 20+ hours every week with training and competing in regional and national eventing competitions. She has done fairly well in eventing and Pony Club (HB/C3), and has won some awards. She has some other ECs as well, including Key Club and other community service involvement, but nothing remotely involved as this. Her recs and essays should be excellent. She is going to take an alternate path her senior year and finish a few high school classes virtually (although she has enough credits to have graduated early), and take a college course as well. She is doing this to spend the year working full time (or more) as a working student for a current US Olympic eventing rider. She would learn infinitely more from doing this, and also be able to advance her own riding and compete during the year. We have no concerns about her being able to handle her coursework during this time.</p>

<p>So...my questions for the knowledgeable:
1) Any issues with admittance to the Honors Program?
2) Any issues with her senior year plan?
3) What are the chances of significant merit aid, OOS tuition waiver, and Park Scholarship? She would like to attend somewhere that can offer her siginificant merit aid, and save her 'college money' for vet school. She likes the set up of NC State, and the fact that there is a vet school nearby.</p>

<p>Thanks for any input you all have!</p>

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<p>She will def. get an invite to join the Honors Program. There is no scholarship attached to that though.</p>

<p>Have you done a search on the NCSU website? Your D sounds like a good candidate for the Park scholarship but every kid who’s nominated is generally a good candidate. It’s a tough competition. </p>

<p>There are departmental scholarships. These are generally not huge, depending on the department. My S (NCSU '09) had a departmental scholarship that was equal to instate tuition per year (we are instate). He also had a university wide merit scholarship.<br>
In both cases we were not notified of scholarships until well into the Spring of senior year. There is also a Caldwell scholarship. It’s more for students interested in Leadership. I have never heard of a NCSU scholarship for oos that brings tuition down to instate cost. As you know, schools within the UNC system are limited to 18% out of state students</p>

<p>To be eligible for any scholarships, the application for admission must be in by Nov.1</p>

<p>My S absolutely loved NCSU (as did my DH). Good luck to your D.</p>