How hard is it to get a full ride, or at least full tuition scholarship?

<p>I've been asking this question on a few different areas, schools I'm interested in. </p>

<p>I was wondering if they had set cornerstones like 'Bama, 3.5 GPA and 1400/1600 SAT or 32 ACT nets you full tuition.</p>

<p>I've heard Clemson gave a decent amount of merit money, but I was wondering how hard it was to get some of that money.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Clemson does not have specific numbers like Alabama, or at least that I know of.</p>

<p>If you are out of state and do pretty well on the SAT/ACT they offer Tutition Waivers which allow you to pay instate price. It saves a good bit of money and seems to be fairly common.</p>

<p>Do you live in Hawaii?</p>

<p>Nah, just born there. Living in Ohio now.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure the only full tuition scholarship offered is through the National Scholars Program. To give you some idea, I came in with a 32 ACT, 4.0 UW GPA (I had 7 AP classes), and some decent EC's, and I got the out of state tuition wavier plus a few smaller scholarships worth a couple thousand each.</p>

<p>Do you think 3.7-3.8 UW GPA, 4.2-4.3 W, 31 ACT, 1360 SAT, Eagle Scout, some other decent EC's could get a tuition waiver?</p>

<p>For God's sake, contact Clemson! </p>

<p>They are a good solid state university. I know of two students who got OOS tuition waivers for 1400/1600 SAT's and solid prep school records.</p>

<p>If you don't apply, you will get nothing. Many things in life work that way.</p>

<p>Yeah, but the thing is, I'm OOS, I seriously like about 10 OOS public schools, want to start to trim that # down and unfortunately finances are a concern.</p>

<p>I have very similar stats to you and I received a tuition waiver. They don't inform people about other academic scholarships (besides national scholars) for another couple months. You should probably receive at least in state tuition.</p>