My son, 3.91 UW GPA with 9 AP’s and 6 Dual enrollment / 1480 SAT is struggling to find a good list of chemical engineering schools with decent merit. He would prefer a mid-large school experience. Any help would be appreciated.
We are on the west coast but open to the country.
Home State?
College Budget minus merit?
Private and/or Public?
Greek life, Sports?
What schools are on the list currently?
State of residency?
Price limit and financial aid situation?
We live in the state of washington and hoping for tuition only close to or under 30K per year. I believe the UC’s are not an option based on their limited merit.
open to private or public. Current list University of Washington, Purdue, University of Delaware and Minnesota.
Yes, the UC’s offer very limited merit and it ranges from $2K-10K/year which is a drop in the bucket for the UC costs which around $67K/year currently.
You still have not answered how much you are willing to pay per year for college?
Have you looked at some of the WUE schools like Cal Poly Pomona which offers Chemical Engineering? Depending upon your budget, you may not require merit to make it affordable.
https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/wue-savings-finder/?keyword=Cal+poly+pomona
Arizona state has a tuition calculator which includes automatic scholarships: https://students.asu.edu/financialaid/costs
He should consider the Barrett’s Honor college if applying to ASU.
I think he would get $15,000 from Delaware so closer to $35+ all in, maybe $17,000 my 3.9 34 ACT daughter gets $17,000, but my 3.9 33 ACT daughter only got $15,000 this year. They recalculated GPA this year instead of basing it mostly on test scores, 1st had 9 AP’s, 2nd had 7. My 20 year old loves it there, she was able to go in with 30 credits with AP/DE and is graduating a year early in May.
Meaning total cost < $30k per year, or total cost of $45-50k per year based on tuition of $30k per year?
In Washington, UW and WSU offer chemical engineering.
The WUE list shows the following schools with chemical engineering:
Cal Poly Pomona
Colorado State University
University of Idaho
Montana State University
University of Nevada, Reno
University of New Mexico
New Mexico State University
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
University of North Dakota
Oregon State University
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
University of Utah
University of Wyoming
The Arizona publics UA and ASU have stats-based scholarships that you can check on their web sites.
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He is probably not going to get any merit aid from Purdue without any hooks unless he is NMF; and even then it won’t be much, maybe $250/semester.
Here are some schools with ChemE programs that might get your son some merit money that might put you in the ball park of $30K/year, based on a quick perusal of various websites:
University of Tennessee - Knoxville: Scholarships for Entering First-Year Students - One Stop Student Services
University of Oklahoma: Scholarships
Oklahoma State University: Out-of-State Scholarships | Oklahoma State University
University of Tulsa: Undergraduate Admission - The University of Tulsa
Texas Tech University: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/scholarships/incFreshman.php
University of Alabama, and Auburn University, also can be generous with merit aid.
And there may be a full ride here: https://www.pvamu.edu/faid/types-of-aid/scholarships/university-scholarships/
Purdue and Minnesota might not be affordable.
Coming from Washington some of these schools could have 2 or 3 layovers when traveling. It’s a real cost and a pain too. Any direct flights from your location that might have acceptable colleges?
Some good suggestions already. WVU would probably meet your budget. University of Houston or Iowa State.
Sorry, if I wasn’t clear but willing to 45-50k for tuition and board.
colorado school of mines?
Some out of state list prices:
$42k Purdue
$50k Minnesota
$53k Delaware
$38k Iowa State
$38k+misc University of Houston
$46k+misc West Virginia University
$60k Colorado School of Mines
Would be a Tier One scholar candidate at U of Houston. Great internships. I had two and was a below average student.
Florida? Delaware and Purdue have been Top 10 for Chem E.
I’d also add Colorado school of Mines and Rose Hulman. Might get some merit reducing total costs. Good luck!
I misread your earlier post, and was thinking total cost <$30K. You will certainly have a few more options with total costs of $45-$50K.
Also, one thing to think about is that some schools have limited seats available for certain types of engineering; and if a school does not do direct admit into a specific engineering program or department, then a student runs the risk of not getting into that engineering program. For example, I believe that Purdue limits the number of first-year students who are allowed into the ChemE program there as sophomores, with the cutoff based on GPA. (@momofboiler1 could probably shed some light on how this works at Purdue, as her daughter is studying ChemE there.)
Thank you for the feedback