<p>Based on your family's experience, how much merit aid, if any, would you expect an applicant to receive with an ACT composite of 31, an unweighted GPA of 3.5 from a very good public HS, and nice (but not Nobel prize winning) recs and ECs? Cost of Attendance is projected to be $57,660! Thanks.</p>
<p>You might get some, but from your user name I assume you are from within PA. Your odds would be better if you were from further away, I think. I’d suggest you have your kid put in an application and see how it goes, though. No one can really tell you. My D got higher merit aid than the website appeared to indicate she would – she knocked it out of the park in her interview, which I think helped. So you can’t tell for sure without applying.</p>