<p>I'm a rising senior looking for good engineering schools that will still offer plenty of merit aid for a student like me.</p>
<p>I've a 3.96(unweighted) GPA, a 34 ACT, and few ec's. I've taken the most rigorous course load that I can at my high school.</p>
<p>I'm currently eying Purdue and GaTech, but I'm worried I won't get enough scholarships.</p>
<p>Nothing at all?</p>
<p>Case Western, Ohio Northern U.</p>
<p>Try Olin and Cooper Union. They have Free tuition for all students</p>
<p>Olin</a> College : Admission : Costs and Scholarship Information</p>
<p>The</a> Cooper Union: About The Cooper Union: Welcome</p>
<p>with those stats, you qualify for Purdue's Trustees Scholarship - $10,000 a year for four years. + you will probably get more on top of that.</p>
<p>gatech only gives merit money to the top 100 people. don't expect any other money, because a financial aid person there told me that gatech ran a scholarship deficit (gave out more money than they brought in) last year. the economy is not helping.</p>
<p>Other posters have mentioned New Mexico Institute of Technology, which also was a featured college in one of those Newsweek college editions as an up and comer.</p>
<p>I have a thread almost exactly like yours, except I have lower stats.</p>
<p>You might want to look into Rice -- great engineering program and generous merit aid.</p>
<p>What about University of Texas at Austin?</p>
<p>USC offers merit aid for high stats.</p>
<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offers these scholarships:
RPI:</a> Scholarships
Scholarships and Grants:</p>
<pre><code>* Rensselaer Grant
* Rensselaer Leadership Award
* Rensselaer Merit Scholarship
* Rensselaer Medal Scholarship
* Rensselaer Housing Scholarship
* International Leadership Award
* Federal Pell Grant
* Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
* Federal ACG Grant
* Federal SMART Grant
* New York State Tuition Assistance Program
* ROTC Scholarships
o Air Force
o Army
o Navy
</code></pre>
<p>whoever mentioned olin, yeah, it's full tuition, but the room and board there is more than the total cost of attendence instate for gtech... OP, what state are you from?</p>
<p>i don't know how much has changed, but when I applied to RPI, I was offered a half tuition scholarship, and very little need based aid, and that still ended up being one of the most expensive schools for me. I didn't get a lot of need based aid from CWRU either, only a half tuition scholarship. </p>
<p>Look for schools with big endowments, and small size, usually they are able to offer a lot of money.</p>
<p>If you are female, Smith College’s Picker Engineering Program is superb. The quality of the engineering program is such that every Smith College engineering student with a 3.5 GPA is guaranteed admission to the graduate engineering schools at Princeton, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, and University of Michigan! </p>
<p>Smith provides STRIDE scholarships where high achieving students do research with professors. They have a number of other scholarships and financial aid as well.</p>
<p>You can find more information on the program at: Smith</a> College: Picker Engineering Program and at: Smith</a> College: Picker Engineering Program</p>
<p>ekb, I'm in Tennessee.</p>
<p>did you take the PSAT? USC offers 1/2 tuition scholarships for NMF's, and with your stats you could very well qualify for a Trustees Scholarship[ 100% tuition scholarship]. They have a great engineering college[ Vertibi] In addition, USC is VERY generous with financial aid. They are looking for hi stat students.</p>
<p>Menlo, I believe I am a semifinalist.</p>
<p>Do you mean the University of Southern California or the University of South Carolina?</p>
<p>Probably Southern California.</p>
<p>I got a pretty decent offer from RPI which I used to bump up my offer from CMU. I lucked out and they matched it. You should definitely look into applying to a bunch of schools that offer lots of aid, and once you get in, start telling the schools what all the others offered you for aid.</p>
<p>Southern Calif</p>