my son got application fee waivers from UAH and Rice. UAH upon request and Rice just offered it when we asked for information and sent HS transcript. maybe Rice will waive app fee if you ask.
Duke and Northwestern are hard to get into but he took a shot and got in, and they both offered great fin aid packages.
@Wien2NC Just checked, Mississippi State does have a full ride comptetitive award, hands out up to 12 every year. Northwestern is indeed great, it offers need based aid so it goes right to the list, thanks for the suggestion.
I’m going to dedicate today to complete as much as I can of the CSS profile and look into each university’s app fees (and fee waivers if they are offered) to get an estimate of how much it’s going to cost me.
My first SAT score was 1390 (760 on the english section and 630 on the math section, I know it’s very low, really dropped the ball in math because most of the content of the exam is stuff we’re supposed to study on our senior year, fortunately I’ve been doing the studying on my own since then), I’m taking SAT again in october aiming for a minimum of 1520, I’m also taking the Math II and Physics subject tests in october. My GPS is 7.8/10, which puts me on the top 5 of my class iirc, I expect better results in my senior year though, as the list of subjects is much more to my liking.
My college list right now is:
UAH
Northwestern University
Lafayette
UTD
MIT
Mississippi State
Rice University
Duke
University of Central Arkansas
Loyola Marymount University
And Tufts. Check Tufts. Some guy from my school got into Tufts this year so like, almost everyone applying from my school this year is considering Tufts. Lol. And Georgia Tech. Can’t count the number of people who are applying there, also influenced by alumni.
@gigichuck Well I used Khan Academy to get used to the kind of questions you find on SAT but I’m 100% certain that score is thanks to always reading in english, spending much time playing videogames and talking with people in english… Videogames definitely helped a lot, a couple of years ago I formed a role playing group in the game Elite Dangerous and wrote a lot of fiction for both my ingame character and the group itself, even got some “articles” published as official lore for the game, my writing skills got so much better in a few weeks thanks to that.
To be honest though I think the best way to get a great english score in SAT is to read a lot, think of whatever genre you like the most and pick a few books, you’ll get amazing progress in a matter of days (at least if, like me, you chug down an entire novel in a day or two).
@41ADAN you need to look at each school and how they handle their scholarships for international students while you might qualify for a tuition waiver AES award at UTD you will not get the cash stipend to off set room and board unless you can legally work in the US.
@3scoutsmom I’m aware of that, I’ve been checking all of them, thing is, the scholarship I was going for with UTDallas is the McDermott scholarship, not the AES. In fact, I had not even seen the AES at all.
I will, however, contact UTDallas about their McDermott Scholarship, as well as the other schools I’ve added to my list, I already contacted some in the past few weeks, like UAH, LMU and Tulane (I had to cross off Tulane though, as it didn’t offer full ride).
@41ADAN I’d hold off sending in the application fee until you have an SAT score over 1490 in hand as that is the minimum score they will consider for the McDermott Scholarship
It is a very competitive scholarship you might want to look at the profiles of this year McDermott scholars, not one of the 23 were international and most were from Texas.
@3scoutsmom I’m aware, if I wasn’t taking SAT a second time I wouldn’t even look at competitive scholarships. And I’m considering “automatic” scholarships just as much, UAH was the first on my list for a reason. I’m going to need a higher score on SAT either way so it’s not that big a deal.