<p>I had mediocre grades in high school so didn't get any scholarships from UIUC. Say, if I have a 3.8 GPA in my first year of college, will I be able to get any merit scholarships from UIUC? I'm OOS so I desperetaly need some money.</p>
<p>the OSFA awards some scholarships based on academic merit and financial need. individual departments also award scholarships. what will your major be? you can look at the department's web site and see if they have any scholarship information listed.</p>
<p>Hey, I was in your boat a few weeks ago, went on the engineering tour and met with one of the deans. His answer was really there are none. It's a public school and not private so no endowment = no cash flow.</p>