<p>Recently I received a letter from ASU’s Barrett, the Honors College congratulating me on being named a National Hispanic Recognition Program scholar. The letter stated (direct quote) “Perhaps most important to you and your parents is the great merit scholarship offered to you as a national scholar. The ASU scholarship is full out-of-state tuition and mandatory student and academic college fees each academic year for nonresidents who are National Merit Finalists, National Hispanic Scholars or National Achievement Finalists. It is renewable for up to four years, and is thus worth more than $100,000 during your career at ASU”. How many people receive this scholarship every year? How is regular financial aid at ASU? Is there any other info anyone can give me? And is Barrett worth my time/consideration if I want a decent English degree?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I saw on another thread you mention oboe. ASU has a music performance minor. They have a great music program and Martin Schuring is a terrific oboe prof to work with. You would have weekly studio and a private lesson and access to all his reed-making tools and expertise. </p>
<p>I can’t say anything about their English program, not familiar.</p>
<p>ASU will fly you in to visit if you are National Merit, Achievement or Hispanic and you can stay overnight with a Barrett student and go to classes and meetings with dean, etc, see if you like it. They get about 200 freshmen each year. About 100 NMF and 100 NHS. More National Hispanic Scholars than any other school in the country, I believe they say.</p>
<p>They have a NPC on their website if you want to check FA. But if you get the scholarship, and it’s automatic so you will, then your remaining costs would be about $13K/yr. Your need would have to be very high to exceed the value of the scholarship. Are you low-income? The way need-based aid usually works is that merit scholarship money replaces need-based aid, doesn’t stack with it.</p>
<p>If finances are a big concern, UKentucky extends their free-ride(totally free, everything) Patterson scholarship to National Hispanic, though it is not stated on website. They confirmed it to me by e-mail with admissions. You can e-mail them yourself to ask about it.</p>
<p>Here is link to something I posted in a thread about NHS and some schools that give automatic money to NHS:
<a href=“NHRP Class of 2015 - #3 by celesteroberts - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>NHRP Class of 2015 - #3 by celesteroberts - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums;
<p>Good luck with your college search.</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>@DaughterofCoul I will also encourage you to visit and tour the facilities. I have one son, who is a college freshman, another who is a high school senior, and another who is a high school junior. We have toured 16 schools. I can confidently say that the facilities at ASU Barrett are outstanding, as is the entire program. It really is like attending a top small college, but with all the extras that a large public university offers.</p>
<p>All three boys have attended one of the top high schools in the U.S. In my oldest son’s graduating class of 38, three went to Stanford, three to Brown, two to Duke, two to Berkeley, one to Northwestern, one to Harvard and several to other “top” colleges. But twelve others, including the valedictorian, turned down other colleges to attend ASU Barrett. And I know several other graduates from earlier classes that have been at Barrett for a while. They all love it (and their parents love the lower cost!).</p>
<p>With all due respect @Beaudreau I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one, as you might expect, attending ASU/Barrett is NOT like attending a ‘top small college’. It’s ASU, its nothing like a small Liberal Arts College like Pomona/Williams/Swarthmore or Amherst.</p>
<p>Whilst I fully respect BASIS schools, one should be mindful, the ASU is easy for anyone in Arizona or any state to gain admission, even to get into Barrett which is how many 5000+?, it’s not that difficult! and most all in-state students often return home most/very frequent weekends, that affects the experience, its NOT an LAC. I had students at also one of the top schools in AZ and pretty much anyone in the top 10% who applied to ASU was admitted to Barrett also. From what I have seen and heard my DS11’s friends who went to Barrett, many have dropped it and just pursue ASU for their undergrad and didnt feel the ‘worth’ of the honors or their campus/major didn’t support it. Not to dis Barrett but I do think applicants should see it for what it is.<br>
That said they do offer wonderful Nat merit scholarships making it really financially attractive to great students. It’s also really ‘cheap/inexpensive’ for good in-state students like virtually -free!
But you get what you pay for, buy a Lincoln and it’s just a Ford underneath, buy a Lexus it’s still a Toyota and everyone knows it…</p>
<p>@DaughterofCoul If you review @Englishman’s posts, you will see that he takes every opportunity he can to bash ASU/Barrett. You can find many Barrett threads on College Confidential and they are largely very positive, with the exception of @Englishman’s obligatory carping.</p>
<p>^This is pretty funny. Like father, like son. They appear to share an account and while they have distinctive voices there is a common tone. Haha!</p>
<p>Indeed facts often times get in the way of emotions or alums…! @Swarthmore and ASU. As students consider colleges, don’t you think they deserve to know not just the facts, but observations and feelings from alums, students, parents and more…?</p>
<p>@Beaudreau, One must be sure to see both sides of the debate, don’t you agree?, We wouldn’t be very objective if we didn’t, would we…? Objectivity, since neither you nor I are making the decisions but high school seniors!</p>
<p>@Englishman: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. You were called out for your comments about Swarthmore students in another thread and that same attitude prevails here. Facts and observations are great; feelings are fine when they are not insulting. For every college on this forum there are families who have students there and there are families that hope their students get in there. I agree with you that Barrett is not the same as a top LAC but the OP didn’t ask if it was. Denigrating Barrett in this post didn’t seem necessary. She asked about scholarships (which you discussed) and she asked if she could get a decent English degree.</p>
<p>I once had a gf who said the same thing!. </p>
<p>I think with respect, I was responding to @Beaudreau’s comment regards ASU vs LAC and the NOT the OP, correct me if I am wrong or didn’t cite it correctly, the OP didn’t ask about LAC’s?.
Regards scholarship I think we all added with regards to them including me, to which I am sure she may have appreciated.</p>
<p>btw I teach at ASU…sometimes</p>
<p>@DaughterofCoul: We went to the Barrett senior scholars dinner last night. It really is a very impressive program. If you are interested in the idea of a small college housed within a large university, I think you should really check it out.
They have very generous scholarships for students they want.</p>
<p>@PhxRising Mark Jacobs, the Dean of the Barrett Honors College, used to be Associate Provost at Swarthmore. DIs this the key to @Englishman 's bashing of both schools?</p>
<p>I agree that the Barrett Senior Scholars Dinner is an outstanding event. We went last year. My senior this year was also invited, but on general principles, he won’t go to anything his older brother went to.</p>