<p>Its a difficult discussion to have, since nobody here works for Admissions and all applications are automatically reviewed for scholarships. Many scholarships are from restricted funds, and as stated above, there are also university grants and New York State grants for New York residents. Every decision is subjective and unique. There are decisions for minority students, for first time college applicant in a family, for low income families, for children of firefighters, for children of certain ethnic groups from catholic high schools in the region, for students who attended a Jesuit prep school and on and on. </p>
<p>The only real way to find out is to apply and see what happens, and file your FAFSA. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>admission counselor told me that i most certainly would get a 10k scholarship, but that they only award 20-25 presidential scholarships (full rides) and that it is very difficult to get them.</p>
<p>what should I do? should I try to get that presidential? or is it too hard? if I just get 10k, Iwon’t be able to attend…</p>
<p>You arent reading very this thread very carefully. </p>
<p>Apply. File the FAFSA and CSS. See what the entire package is, both in scholarships, grants, loans. Its non binding EA. Compare offers with other schools. Its not hard. </p>
<p>I got a full ride and had a good but not amazing SAT (2160 IIRC). I am a minority so I thought that may have given me an edge, but pretty much all the kids in my Honors program (LC) got similar scholarships, and most are caucasian. I don’t know what their scores were, though.</p>
<p>“what should I do? should I try to get that presidential? or is it too hard? if I just get 10k, Iwon’t be able to attend…”</p>
<p>What do you have to lose? Apply. If you get it, awesome. If not, too bad, not the end of the world. Go to one of the other schools you applied to. Hopefully you are applying to safety schools.</p>
<p>alexbcn, my daughter is in an auditioned theater program, so it’s not the same as a regular academic admit. Her scholarship is a theater scholarship (not a full ride but there is at least one full-ride theater scholarship and a few theater kids who are also National Merit Scholars do get full rides.) </p>
<p>[edit] I checked below and your scores and GPA are higher than hers. I was responding to the person who made a comment about Ivies. I agree with sovereign-- go for it and see what you get!</p>