<p>Does anyone have an idea about how much money georgia tech gives out in financial aid/scholarships on average?</p>
<p>Averages don’t tell you anything. You need to deal with personal stats and EFCs to get any sense of what a school gives in aid or merit…</p>
<p>If you’re out of state (OOS), don’t expect any FA (financial aid). </p>
<p>As for scholarships, it will depend on your stats and need (FAFSA req’d). GT doesn’t have automatic scholarships. All are very competitive. </p>
<p>[Georgia</a> Institute of Technology :: Financial Aid :: Scholarships](<a href=“Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Financial Aid”>Blow the Whistle! (404 error: page not found) | Financial Aid)</p>
<p>What are your stats? What is your state of residency?</p>
<p>SAT: Math-690 CR-630
GPA: 4.0
AP’s: 9 passed 5 with 3 3’s and 2 4’s but havent taken the other 4 yet
Very active long resume
Good letters of rec
Live in South Carolina but doing Academic Common Market so does that mean they consider me in-state?</p>
<p>You won’t be considered in-state but you will get in-state tuition, if you are pursuing a degree which is not available in SC.</p>
<p>There are only 2 majors at Georgia Tech that are not available in South Carolina…</p>
<p>They are:
Polymer and Fiber engineering
Nuclear & Radiological engineering</p>
<p>So, those are the only 2 majors that qualify for Academic Market in-state rates at GT, if you’re from SC.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/academic_common_market.html[/url]”>Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board;
<p>Your stats are good, but not likely high enough for scholarships.</p>
<p>Where else have you applied?</p>
<p>I applied under Polymer Fiber and Textiles Engineering
I am applying to: Wake Forest, Colgate, Furman, Clemson, and Rhodes
Can I use SC Lottery Money (Palmetto Fellows) through the academic common market?</p>
<p>It looks like it doesn’t go out of state:
<a href=“http://www.che.sc.gov/StudentServices/PalmettoFellows/files/PFS_Q&A_2008-09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.che.sc.gov/StudentServices/PalmettoFellows/files/PFS_Q&A_2008-09.pdf</a></p>
<p>Q.8 - If my academic major is not offered in South Carolina, can I still receive the
Palmetto Fellow Scholarship if I will attend a college located outside the State?</p>
<p>No. Students selected as Palmetto Fellows must enroll in an eligible institution, even if the student’s major is not offered within the State.</p>
<p>So, where else have you applied?</p>
<p>Wake forest, clemson, colgate, rhodes, furman</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids,
Really, Georgia Tech doesn’t give much (or any?) merit aid to OOS? That would be helpful to know because my son just started considering it … though we haven’t visited yet. If there’s no merit aid, there’s no reason to apply (in our case). Excellent stats, btw. Please tell more!</p>
<p>The Common Data Set at <a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf</a> shows the average non-need based scholarship is around $4K. And there are 50 freshman students that have an average scholarship of $10K.</p>
<p>Oh boy. Sounds like it’s not worth applying. My son must get good (okay, great) merit aid before he can attend any particular college. Well, fortunately, there are plenty of great colleges around who DO offer great aid!</p>
<p>SimpleLife…</p>
<p>Is your son a junior or senior? Where is he applying?</p>
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<p>*The Common Data Set at [IRP</a> – Missing Document](<a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Dat...S2009_2010.pdf]IRP”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Dat...S2009_2010.pdf) shows the average non-need based scholarship is around $4K. And there are 50 freshman students that have an average scholarship of $10K. *</p>
<p>Good stats Erin’s Dad.</p>
<p>The problem with trying to get a scholarship from Georgia Tech is that it’s hard to “stand out” by having stats that are so much higher than everyone else’s in order to be awarded a scholarship.</p>
<p>20% of students have a 700+ SAT CR
49% of students have a 700+ SAT Math</p>
<p>mom2collegekids,</p>
<p>My son is a junior. He’s just now getting an idea of how his list will look and hasn’t even begun to finalize it. He’s looking at engineering schools and great liberal arts schools with very good to great engineering programs. So far, in alphabetical order, he is strongly considering Olin, Rice, Stanford, TCU, Texas Tech, Trinity U, UT Austin, U Tulsa, and Wash U. So far, he has visited every one of those but Olin (interviewed already, though) and Trinity. He is just starting to look into Georgia Tech, UNC Chapel Hill, and possibly Harvey Mudd. He has looked into MIT and Cal Tech, but has pretty much eliminated them at this point.</p>
<p>Simplelife, What is your home state? I doubt some of those, such as UT, will come up with scholarship $ for OOS students. UNC-CH will meet need so if you are not needy that will be a tough one as well.</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad,
We’ve checked out merit aid for all 9 schools on his list so far. Son has good potential for merit aid at all except Stanford. Stanford doesn’t do merit aid, but they have a more reasonable standard for need-based aid than many. Saw the GT thread titled “money” and thought I’d read up. Hadn’t heard prior to mom2’s post that FA’s not really available for OOS. Got me wondering about GT specifically. Son will have to check out the GT website in the next few days.</p>
<p>Wait … I thought I’d take a quick look at mom2’s GT Scholarship link before heading off to bed. What about GT’s President’s Scholarship Program? Is it not open to OOS? Well, we’ll just have to delve further into the website at another time. Don’t want to ask any of you to do what we can do for ourselves. My interest was just piqued by the title of this thread. However, if anybody does want to chime in about merit aid at GT (for OOS in our case), we’d be happy to hear what you have to say!</p>
<p>*Hadn’t heard prior to mom2’s post that FA’s not really available for OOS. Got me wondering about GT specifically. Son will have to check out the GT website in the next few days. *</p>
<p>OOS publics don’t have the money to meet need of its own instate students, therefore they don’t give FA to OOS students (exceptions: UVA and UNC-CH). Any student who qualifies for fed grants (low income) would still get those, but those are for small amounts - too small to make any real difference for OOS public costs.</p>
<p>*What about GT’s President’s Scholarship Program? Is it not open to OOS? *</p>
<p>Scholarships are not “financial aid.” At some publics, scholarships are offered to OOS students. In the case of GT, the scholarships are competitive. In the case of Willsen who asked, his stats are not high enough to likely get such a scholarship.</p>
<p>I have no idea what your child’s stats are. If they are very high, then perhaps GT would award him one. </p>
<p>President’s Scholarship…</p>
<p>*The President’s Scholarship is Georgia Tech’s premier merit-based award. It is offered to the most outstanding entering freshmen who have demonstrated superb leadership skills, **are among the top few in their class **in academic performance, and show promise of continuing such performance in college and beyond.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>If your child’s stats possibly place him at the top of the entering freshmen class, then he might have a good chance. 
But, these are not assured scholarships.</p>
<p>If your child is a junior, I suggest he apply to at least 2 schools that have assured scholarships as financial safeties. Schools that have competitive scholarships cannot really be considered financial safeties since a student may not get the $$.</p>
<p>Any chance your son is a National Merit Semifinalist? Keilexandra has a great thread in this forum about scholarships available to NMFs.</p>
<p>Thanks to both of you for your responses. I was misunderstanding, thinking (as you surmised) that when you said FA, you were meaning scholarships as well as need-based.</p>
<p>As a junior, my son isn’t really sure that he’s NMSF yet, but he did get a 237 on the PSAT. He has a GPA, SAT, and class rank to back that up, and his teachers and guidance counselor like him a lot. So the chances that he wouldn’t be NMSF are probably slim. Stats are excellent – some “perfect,” and some very, very close to perfect. We’ll look for Keilexandra’s NMF thread on that. Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m with you on the financial safeties, mom2. This son is not my first to go through the process. He’s just my first to look at engineering schools. So GT has never been on our radar before. We’re aware that most of what he’s looking at is not “assured.” The family rule, as for the other kids, is that he can only apply at places that are (1) a really good fit for him, and (2) offer great scholarships for which he can be competitive.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>