<p>I'm black, fillipino, and Cherokee Indian. 4.2 weighted GPA. Make 10k- 15k a year. Out of state though. How is it?</p>
<p>Unless you are eligible to received a named scholarship, specifically designated for minority students (usually high stats), the financial aid and scholarships at ASU are the same for minorities as they are for every one else.</p>
<p>OOS students don’t usually get need-based aid from OOS publics beyond the small amount of federal aid.</p>
<p>A public’s responsibility is to help their instate kids first. Public schools charge high OOS rates for a reason.</p>
<p>Are you an incoming frosh? Do you have high stats? if so, then you might get some merit scholarship money.</p>
<p>FA is based on need. Merit aid is based on stats, etc.</p>
<p>Yes…FA is based on need, but an OOS public like ASU is not going to give a low income OOS student with an 0 EFC enough need-based aid to cover the $37k per year COA.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how many threads the OP starts on this subject. Without any SAT or ACT scores, it’s hard to say whether he’d get merit scholarships. His scores would have to be very high for him to get enough merit money so that federal aid would cover the rest. </p>
<p>Right now, it’s unlikely that ASU would be affordable. He needs to look at instate publics so that Cal Grants and such will help pay for school.</p>
<p>If ASU stands for Arizona State University there is a scholarship calculator on their website. Your best bet is to locate the admissions person responsible for your location and start a dialogue. If you can’t get on the phone, send an e-mail. Mom2 is correct how would “we” know what a random college might offer “you.”</p>
<p>I think this student stated on another thread that he doesn’t have SAT or ACT scores yet, so the ASU calculator and no one else can know what he’d get.</p>
<p>Ah OK, so OP start with your own state…read the websites…make sure you’ve taken all the necessary classes, make a list of deadlines. Then select a few long shot schools and start a dialogue. If you are in California as someone mentioned, read up on WUE and find which schools might be an option for you. If you actually have enough American Indian in you to be registered, then look into that because there are benefits In our state you must be 1/4 American Indian and you must be certified by your tribe and for that there is a tuition waiver even at the flagship, but this will be a state by state thing I suspect but I DON’T KNOW you will need to do the research.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Agree…find out if you’re registered with your tribe. I think you need some kind of blood paperwork to declare NA as a URM…but of course, you’re a URM for other reasons as well.</p>
<p>I don’t know how WUE would much benefit you since you’d still be OOS for aid (so you wouldn’t get the CA state aid or the state aid of the WUE school), so you’d likely only get a Pell grant and a 5500 loan…not enough to pay 150% tuition plus room, board, books, fees, etc. WUE schools usually do not allow merit AND WUE benefits. That’s one of the problems with WUE…it really only benefits those who can afford to pay. </p>
<p>The best thing this student can do is study for the SAT and ACT (take both) and try to do extremely well…doing “good” isn’t enough for sizable merit scholarships at many schools. </p>
<p>The student has expressed interest in a UC on another thread. That would be his best bet. Apply to several UCs…low to high tier UCs. The UCs are very good about meeting need for instate students who have a 0 EFC and are low income.</p>