<p>I live in NY, and wonder if I would be able to get a very big non-need merit scholarship to go to Rutgers? Many OOS Schools (Penn State for example) just take OOS students for their OOS tuition cash, while those like Pitt invite OOS students for their academic boost and provide them nice awards. Where does Rutgers fall?</p>
<p>Stats:
African American
Top 15% of my class
3.6UW/ 4.0W GPA
2050 SAT
Standard EC's nothing special</p>
<p>Going for Electrical/Computer Engineering</p>
<p>I’m not sure about OOS, but in-state a lot of my friends were Blousteins/had high scores/high GPAs and received awards ranging from $2,500-full ride per year non-need awards… the only problem is that a few months after receiving their awards many of them had them taken away because of the budget cuts. I think more than anything now, Rutgers really needs the money. I’m not even sure what it depends on anymore because a lot of us had similar scores and ended up with different awards–best of luck to you though, hopefully you’ll score a lot of $$$ :]</p>
<p>Seriously?!?!? Rutgers gave scholarships then took them away? Is that even legal? What if someone declined an offer from other colleges based on that scholarship?</p>
<p>the scholarship that was taken away was a $1,000 Bloustein scholarship which I believe comes from the state, not from Rutgers directly, so technically the state denied students money that was promised to them… =/</p>
<p>Yes, the state took their money away but Rutgers did not.</p>
<p>Even as an instate student, I only got a small scholarship.</p>
<p>Rutgers gave my son (NY student, SAT in the 1300’s, good EC’s) a $10k scholarship but no other help - we were still looking at a gap of almost $10,000 per year compared to his SUNY offers.</p>
<p>FWIW, Pitt was even less helpful - grants only instead of a scholarship. So much for everything we heard about how generous they supposedly are for OOS students. I strongly advise you to find at least two or three good SUNY schools you will be readily willing to attend in case none of your out-of-state options come through.</p>
<p>My roommate freshmen year was an OOS from the Midwest who received a Presidential Scholarship (Rutgers’ full scholarship) so it is possible though I’m not sure how likely that is now with the budget cuts and all.</p>
<p>Just adding to the Bloustein thing… my sister didn’t apply to Rutgers, but she was a Bloustein scholar this year. She ended up choosing an OOS school anyway, but it was the state that cut the scholarship funding due to the budget crisis.</p>