<p>Can anyone tell me how my niece might do with a package from GT? It is her very top choice.
Bio-Medical Eng
PS Semi-finalist, but not Finalist
SAT 800 math/ 670 verbal
ACT 33 (35 math)
IB dipolma
AP classes with 4’s and 5’s
HS Swimmer and Water polo team
Mentor to elementary DI team
EFC $492
OOS, resident of Ohio</p>
<p>Will she have any chance of living her dream?
What should her next step be?</p>
<p>As noted earlier, GT is a state school and does not offer generous aid to OOS.</p>
<p>I was accepted last year but my aid package did not allow me to attend. My stats were strong, but not good enough for the top merit awards. </p>
<p>For need based FA, I got the standard Pell, FSEOG, Staffords, and a 7K OOS tuition adjustment. Total package was came to about a bit over half of the OOS COA. With an EFC of around 4000, the gap was too large to afford.</p>
<p>Disappointing, but I did not do enough research prior to applying. Had I done so, I would have known that they could not provide the aid I needed.</p>
<p>^^ Unless your niece has applied for the top scholarships, she will not likely get a package that will meet her need. I hope she applied and maybe she will receive a scholarship. Good luck!</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me how my niece might do with a package from GT? It is her very top choice.
Bio-Medical Eng
PS Semi-finalist, but not Finalist
SAT 800 math/ 670 verbal
ACT 33 (35 math)
IB dipolma
AP classes with 4’s and 5’s
HS Swimmer and Water polo team
Mentor to elementary DI team
EFC $492
OOS, resident of Ohio</p>
<p>The OOS COA for GT is $38,120 for this year (next fall will be higher)</p>
<p>According to Icon’s post above, your niece will get some money, but not nearly enough to cover the COA. It sounds like she’ll be lucky to get about $15k in free money (Pell, FSEOG, OOS grant), $5500 in a Stafford loan, and the rest could be a big gap (about $18k). </p>
<p>Did your niece apply to any schools that would award her scholarships or will meet need? With her ACT 33, she could have gotten at least free tuition at some schools.</p>
<p>Why didn’t she make NMF?</p>
<p>She is not NMF because her PSAT scores were 95%, not 99%.</p>
<p>Yes she has applied to 4 other schools and she is working on the GT scholarship list that she received when she was notified that she was not a PS finalist.</p>
<p>Can’t find it right now, but somewhere there is a post from a mom with a daughter at GT on OOS tuition that is paying $500 out of pocket this year. I am looking for ideas that might help my niece be that one in 5000. Didn’t know if an appt with Finanical Aid officer might be needed. </p>
<p>What is FSEOG? </p>
<p>When her mom did their FAFSA, they asked about her AP classes. Sounded like that might get her some Federal Merit money due to family income being < $50,000.</p>
<p>^^^ </p>
<p>Oh…so she wasn’t a NMSF then, either. Ohio’s NMSF are in the 99th percentile. It sounds like she was Commended…which is 95th percentile. The only NMSFs that don’t become NMFs are kids who have lowish GPAs, are discipline problems, didn’t do the forms, etc. There are 16,000 NMSF, and 15,000 make NMF…so to not make NMF is usually the student’s fault.</p>
<p>*
When her mom did their FAFSA, they asked about her AP classes. Sounded like that might get her some Federal Merit money due to family income being < $50,000. *</p>
<p>That doesn’t sound right. Others can chime in here, but I don’t think FAFSA asks about AP classes. Here’s the link to the FAFSA form. I don’t see anywhere that it asks about AP classes… <a href=“http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fafsaws01bw.pdf[/url]”>http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fafsaws01bw.pdf</a></p>
<p>There isn’t extra federal aid for AP classes and low income.</p>
<p>Can’t find it right now, but somewhere there is a post from a mom with a daughter at GT on OOS tuition that is paying $500 out of pocket this year. I am looking for ideas that might help my niece be that one in 5000. Didn’t know if an appt with Finanical Aid officer might be needed.</p>
<p>Maybe the student won a competitive scholarship? Was it a recent post?</p>
<p>Your niece or her parent should contact the FA office if they can.</p>
<p>I found the post that you’re talking about…the daughter received a scholarship…</p>
<p>*My daughter is OOS and received fantastic aid. Between the $12k/yr GT grant, work-study, pell grant and the rest covered by a need based MERIT scholarship, it’s costing under $500 out of pocket for the entire year, everything included w/no loans. *</p>
<p>On another post, she lists her D’s stats…</p>
<p>SAT 1500/1600 …2220/2400 (so, her SAT is equivalent to an ACT 34)
GPA 4.8 weighted
IB diploma candidate </p>
<p>She didn’t mention if her D was NMF, which can sometimes be a plus.</p>