Fordham is absolutely my first choice school, and I already got a likely letter for FCLC. However, my family just can’t swing spending $70,000 a year on tuition, so I was hoping someone could maybe chance me for how much merit aid I might get? I don’t think I’ll qualify for the Presidential Scholarship, but any kind of idea of how much I might get would be really appreciated! My family won’t qualify for need based aid.
GPA: 4.00 UW/4.9W
ACT: 35
APs: APUSH, Euro, Lit (all 5s) Gov, Bio, Lang, Music Theory (I’m expecting 5s on these as well) My school’s music schedule combined with a block schedule pretty heavily limited how many APs I could take before my senior year.
Besides APs I pretty much took all honors courses through high school, as well as a dual enrollment in Calculus at a community college this fall, which I’ll probably get a high A in.
National Merit Commended Scholar- This is the part I’m most worried about. I missed the cut off for NMSF in PA by 2 points, and I know semifinalists get full tuition. Is there anyway I could try to appeal that in 30+ other states I would have been a semifinalist?
I’m a white Catholic girl going to a mid size public school in the suburbs outside of Philly. There’s about 360 kids in my class, and my school only does decile ranking, so I know that I’m safely in the top ten percent of my class ranking.
I also do a bunch of extracurriculars, especially in the music program at my school
Marching Band - won a state championship - 4 year section leader
Indoor Drumline - won 2 championships
Indoor Guard- earned a silver medal - less than a point out from first
County Band (3 years)
Jazz Combos/Improv - soloist
Principal’s Advisory Council
NHS
Music Honor Society- founding member and secretary
Musical Mentors - service based music club - cofounder and VP
Awards
I have the standard ones - AP scholar, distinguished honor roll, NM Commended Scholars.
Best Rookie and Most Dedicated for Marching Band
Semifinalist for Ayn Rand essay contest - top 10% of over 1000 submissions
I don’t know where this fits, but I did write a 25 page research paper on the progression of fashion throughout the French Revolution for fun? Unfortunately, Fordham doesn’t accept supplemental materials, so I don’t know if I can even tell them about that.
Thank you so much!