Merit scholarships for aspiring biomedical engineer!!?

Paying for College
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<p>So I'm going to be a senior at a high school in New Jersey next year and am trying to figure out where I should be headed in a year. I want to do biomedical engineering after college and want to finish college in the best situation possible whether that's little to no debt or with a very valuable college degree. Right now I'm trying to figure out which school I should be attending that's a happy medium between cheap yet highly rated. I don't want to sacrifice an excellent education but money is always an issue. Right now I'm thinking about schools such as Pitt, Boston, Carnegie Mellon, northeastern and upenn. These are pretty strong colleges some with better brand name than others. I won't qualify for financial aid but my parents will be paying for most of the education(I think). With that said, they don't want to pay $200,000 for brand name. What I'm mostly looking for is what my chances are of receiving large amounts of merit aid a these schools, specifically Boston and Pitt. Additionally, If anyone believes an education at upenn is better in the long run than say a cheaper education at Pitt.</p>

<p>My stats:
- all A's in high school, all A+'s junior year so my gpa according to my school is 4.54 to send to colleges
- 34 and 29 act scores (36 sci 34 math 32 read 32 eng 9 essay ---- 25 sci 34 math 32 read 25 eng 9 essay)
-800 physics and 700 math II then 750 math II
-hopefully 5s on calc bc and physics b this year
-physics c chem and stat next year
-don't know if ecs really contribute to merit scholarships so I won't bother listing</p>

<p>I was hoping my stats were high enough for full tuition at Pitt and maybe the same at Boston though I feel I'd have a better chance at Pitt. I don't know if the others give as much merit as these two</p>

<p>Thanks for any advice on that.</p>

<p>Also, does anyone have anything to say about the benefit of coop programs in biomedical engineering and the job opportunities for biomedical engineering near any of those colleges. I don't want to go to college somewhere stranded and am unsure of the ease of landing a job 6 hrs from my college or home</p>

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<p>I won’t qualify for financial aid but my parents will be paying for most of the education(I think). With that said, they don’t want to pay $200,000 for brand name.</p>

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<p>ask your parents how much they will pay, so you know.</p>

<p>You will need a grad degree to work in that field, but you dont need your undergrad in biomedE…other undergrad majors work just as well…mechE, ChemE</p>

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<p>Since you’re in NJ, you should definitely check out both Temple and Drexel. Both should give you significant merit aid, Temple guarantees full tuition for your stats. You’d still be on the hook for room and board at both places. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t count on Pitt as a financial safety unless your parents can pay almost the full out of state tuition (about 27k, I think). It has gotten much tougher to get money from Pitt these last two years. I know several high stats kids (1400+ SAT’s) who only got a couple of thousand dollars. Full disclosure - Everyone I know who’s applied to Pitt is in state - I don’t know if Pitt’s more likely to discount an out of stater.</p>

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<p>Rutgers has been reported to offer full rides to high stats NJ resident students. It offers an ABET-accredited biomedical engineering program, as well as other ABET-accredited engineering degree programs.</p>

<p>However, for a safety, you may want to see if any of the schools in this list is of interest:
<a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I have two younger brothers so the two of them will also need to be funded. With that said they will be strongly supporting the financially favorable option in almost any case.</p>

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<p>Please get clarification. that just sounds like mumbo jumbo…lol…ask them how much they will pay each year…35k? 50k? more? less?</p>

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<p>true, harder to get merit from Pitt now…OOS COA is $42k per year.</p>

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<p>Well I would like to know even more than you, but I really can’t get an answer like that. My parents don’t want to be approaching college that way. I understand how vague my answers have been but I can’t get anything specific like that. Sorry</p>