<p>I'm male, Caucasian, and OOS from all of them.
I'm not athletic at all. However I'm very involved with my area (boy Scout, volunteer at a museum, I'm in the Audubon society)
My family's pretty poor (Dad on welfare, Mom's salary is <40K)</p>
<p>University of Georgia
Auburn University
Ohio State
Oregon State
University of Maine
University of Minnesota
UCDavis
University of Michigan
University of Washington</p>
<p>Oh, possible majors are:
Avian Biology (only at UGA)
Evolution/ecology/behavior
French
Geography
Portguese
Arabic
Zoology</p>
<p>If your family is quite poor, is there a reason why you aren’t working? Many middle class kds work during school and summers to at least cover their own expenses like school clothes and college applications.</p>
<p>Out of state public schools are unlikely to lower the cost low enough for you to attend.
What are your instate schools?
Will you have AP credits to help lower costs?
Will you qualify for national merit?</p>
<p>To see what scholarships are available at universities google merit scholarships XXX University. Only two public Us meet need for all students, UVA and UNC-CH, both of which are highly competitive for admission. Some other schools (like UMich) meet need for in-state students. You’ll have to check if that applies for your in-state U.</p>
<p>Those are all OOS publics that charge high OOS rates for a reason. doesn’t make sense to charge high OOS rates and then cover it with need-based aid. They need to reserve their very limited aid for their INSTATE students…and even those often don’t get enough aid. </p>
<p>What are your STATS? Some of these schools MIGHT give you a large merit scholarship if your test scores and GPA are very high.</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>However, none will give you full scholarships.</p>
<p>If you need lots of aid, then you need to apply to the schools that “meet need.” These schools don’t meet need.</p>
<p>It looks like you’re instate for NY.</p>
<p>Since NY SUNYs have low costs for instate students and have state aid, those may be your affordable choices unless your stats are high enough to luckily get into a school like Cornell or similar that meets full need.</p>
<p>The OOS publics on your list won’t likely be affordable.</p>
<p>Are your parents married? If your dad is receiving disability benefits (it’s not clear from your description) and your parents are married, those amounts are included in family income.</p>
<p>If you are looking for scholarship $$, you will need excellent scores and grades. One of my nieces was salutatorian at her HS, 13 APs and a 34 ACT and she got full tuition plus an additional $3,000/yr scholarship from UGA. She is in-state. Did not get FA even though her mom (divorced from my brother) has been unemployed since last August. </p>
<p>The scholarship funds for state universities has tightened up considerably in recent years, and the kids who are getting those limited big tickets are increasingly accepting them. We know a lot of kids who took the big money at the flagship rather than pay for a private (even the big name, tippy-top ones).</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>From other posts, it doesn’t look like the parents were ever married, and likely do not live together…hence the dad’s ability to qualify for welfare.</p>
<p>i always thought volunteering looked better to colleges, this summer I’ve been volunteering at a local nature museum. I’m 14 and in NY, so there’s not much i can do. I’m also very uncoordinated and dreadful at handling money.</p>
<p>Stats…
last time I was ranked (3rd quarter of 9th grade), I was 10 out of about 550. my gpa from 4th quarter was 99.9126.
I didn’t take any APs in 9th grade and Im not taking any this year (except maybe self-studying one). however in junior and senior years i plan on doing 5.
I haven’t taken the pSAT yet so I don’t know if I qualify for national merit. I plan on taking the PSAT this year. </p>
<p>the main 3 things I’m obsessed with are birds, demographics, and foreign langs. i guess suny oswego might work (they have a zoology major). I know that Cornell is really big on birds, but that is only for graduates. Their undergrad major selection doesn’t really seem interesting. the main thing is also I really want to go away for college. If I go to any of a few of those universities, it could be my first time outside the time zone. Bu then again i guess SUNY Oswego is pretty far way from Long Island.</p>
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<p>Correct. My parents were never married and do not live together.</p>
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<p>Full tuition for Georgia in-state requires 3.7 GPA and 1260 SAT - that’s automatic with the Zell Miller scholarship. The $3,000/year award is much more impressive, as you have to be in the top ~90 applicants to get that.</p>
<p>For the OP, winning a full ride at UGA from OOS would require stats sufficient to get into any school in the country, as only ~20 are awarded annually and preference goes to in-state students.</p>
<p>OOS state schools are stingy with their aid. They could not care less for financial need people since the state is funding them and they need to cover instate FA needs first.</p>
<p>Are you a rising Sophomore, or a rising Junior? If you will be a Sophomore this fall, you can take the PSAT for practice, but you will need to re-take it when you are a Junior in order to be considered for the National Merit Scholarship program.</p>
<p>Read through the threads in this forum that discuss Guaranteed Merit-based Scholarships. If you have good enough grades and exam scores, you may qualify for a full-ride somewhere. But also do speak with the guidance counselor at your high school, and find out about state-based aid (TAP) that will help you pay for your education if you stay in NYS.</p>
<p>^^I’m a rising sophomore.</p>
<p>CountingDown…</p>
<p>That UGa scholarship is for instate students only…it’s funded by the state for residents. </p>
<p>The OP is not a resident of Ga.</p>
<p>OP…</p>
<p>Volunteering may look good for admissions for selective privates. Publics aren’t going to care that much and it won’t make a difference for big aid. </p>
<p>You need the best GPA and test scores. Even then, you may find that no OOS publics will work for you.</p>
<p>UGA also has the Foundation Fellows and Bernard Ramsey Honors Scholarships, some of which are full. You need at least a 3.8 GPA and an SAT score of 2100 or ACT of 31 to be eligible.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/foundation-fellowship-part-i.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/foundation-fellowship-part-i.html</a></p>
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<p>Since you are a rising sophomore, some of the scholarships that exist now will no longer be around when you will be applying to college, and some that don’t exist yet will. Do pay attention to your grades and your test scores so that you can best position yourself to take advantage of the scholarships that exist when you are applying to college two years from now. If you pop in here at the financial aid forum from time-to-time, you will be able to stay on top of the changes in financial aid between now and then. You are way ahead of most of your classmates. Congratulations on having the sense to get started early!</p>
<p>To the OP…I’m going to ask the obvious question. What is wrong with the many instate options you have as a New York resident. In addition to any federally funded aid, wouldn’t you also be eligible for TAP? While this might not be a completely free ride, it sure would be less costly than the OOS public universities you have listed.</p>
<p>You need to know that there are VERY few totally free ride scholarships out there and they are all very competitive and require a separate application to the universities that offer them.</p>
<p>petlover, Keep working hard at school. The posters are right: it’s hard to get enough $ to attend an out-of-state public. However, with high test scores and grades at a challenging curriculum, you may be admitted to a meet-full-needs school. Also, google Questbridge.</p>
<p>Is it possible, is the question. The short answer is YES. Those colleges all have given some students full scholarships. They have given some OOS students full scholarships. They have given some OOS non athletes full scholarships. The question is whether you will have the stuff they want badly enough to give YOU a full scholarship. None of them guarantee or give 100% of need to OOSers; most don’t even do so for their own state students. I daresay that unless you are some highly desireable superstar, they won’t be giving you a full scholarship unless you have near perfect SAT1 scores as well as a high GPA. In that case, some of the top private schools in the country like Harvard, Princeton and Yale would be schools that should be on your list too, as they pretty much guarantee to provide a full pay package to those in your financial situation. The schools you list do not.</p>
<p>So if your stats are way up there, it doesn’t hurt to give those schools a shot, along with some private that guarantee to meet full need. Whatever your stats may be, you should have a school or two that is guaranteed to take you and guaranteed to be affordable, like an in state public. NY has programs that make it possible for anyone to go to college. A local commuting option to a SUNY or CUNY would fit that description. You would be eligible for PELL, loans, TAP and some other NY programs from what I can see.</p>