<p>The app is VERY easy…takes like 5 minutes…no essays, no LORs.</p>
<p>BTW…you’ll meet a good number of fellow Californians if you go to Alabama. Calif is #5 in sending kids to Alabama because of these great scholarships.</p>
<p>The campus is gorgeous! (much better than those mostly ugly UC and CSU campuses …lol)</p>
<p>Others have noted the University of Alabama ones (full tuition + $2,500 for engineering, though that still leaves about $10,000 per year to fund with student loans and work). If you would rather have a smaller amount needed to fund with student loans and work, there are even better scholarships at Howard, Louisiana Tech, and Prairie View A&M.</p>
<p>Thanks for everyone who has replied. I live in the Silicon Valley next to a very competitive school. Therefore, although my mom’s salary is high, the high standard of living gives her very little money left for my college. She says that after taxes and the costs for our house, she only has 10,000 to 20,000 left, not including other luxuries.</p>