OOS Chance for Honors/Scholarships

Colleges and Universities A-Z Colorado State University
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Hi all! Im a OOS female who has recently become very interested in CSU; however, I will need scholarships to go there.

Stats:
OOS (south carolina) -white female
-rigorous private school
UW GPA 3.7/ W 4.42 93.85
9,10, 11 = I took 6 honors courses, which is maxing out at my school
11= AP Stats (4) AP English Lit (4) AP U.S History (4)
12= AP Calculus AB, AP English Language, AP Spanish V, AP Environmental Science, and AP Human Geography

test scores (just retook the SAT today and believe that I improved)
ACT:29 + writing (34)
SAT: 1310

ECS:

Tennis for school (9-12)
Youth Group Planning Committee Member (10-12)
Youth Advisor for Middle Schoolers (11,12)
Acolyte at church (9-12) --> Team Captain (11-12)
Junior Class VP (11)
Student Body Secretary (12)
Youth Corps (selective local leadership program for HS students in my city) (10)
Furman University Summer Scholars (summer after 11)
Palmetto Girls State (summer after 11)
babysitter/nanny (9-12)
intern for local magazine (9)
Costa Rica Mission Trip (11)
VBS volunteer (10,11)
National Honor Society (10,11)
–over 130 community service hours documented

I have written my common app essay and I think it very strongly represents who I am and identifies aspects of my personality/interests that are not found elsewhere in my application. Without disclosing too much information about my essay, I will say it will definitely appeal to a school with an outdoorsy/adventurous vibe.

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I think you would get $14K per year. About 1/2 of oos tuition. And maybe a departmental scholarship as well.

http://sfs.colostate.edu/scholarships-for-entering-non-resident-freshman
https://colostate.academicworks.com/

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Thanks for your help! Do you know anything about the stats for getting into honors?

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http://www.honors.colostate.edu/admissions

Also note the honors scholarships is $1000 per year instead $4,000 per year so you would probably get $11K per year instead of $14K.

If you like Colorado schools with outdoorsy/adventurous vibes, also look into Fort Lewis College. It is less expensive than CSU and also has merit and an honors program.

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@wildflowers98 Fort Lewis College is a 4000 student undergraduate only institution that is liberal arts, sciences, accounting and a new computer engineering major. Its located in an isolated but fun mountain town of Durango.
CU Boulder is more like CSU, a large campus with many more majors offered, and also offers very similar merit based awards to CSU. However Boulder is more expensive for living expenses. CSU and CU Boulder vary on majors and not every major is available at both locations so look carefully at the programs to be sure they offer what you want to study.

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My son is from out of state and got an 8000 dollar scholarship for gpa/sat. This will put us on par with instate schools in PA where we are from

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We have $11,000 for OOS and Honors from TX. Still a lot more than the schools here but he loves their equine science program and polo team.

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Stats on the 8 and 11k scholarships? (momocarly and mainlinemom)

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@jesse’sgirl We are from PA. Son had 1390 on old SAT. 3.2 UW/4.1W Agriculture major. Very competitive HS

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My son will be starting at CSU this fall and is OOS (Texas). The information on scholarships available is pretty straightforward and available on the website: http://financialaid.colostate.edu/scholarships-for-entering-non-resident-freshman

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We are from NJ, our daughter got the President’s Scholarship for $10K. CSU will still be approx $35K per year. With travel expenses it will be close to $40K. We are still waiting on financial aid info from UCONN. She loved both schools but likes CSU better. We feel that even if UCONN is a couple/few thousand dollars more per year, UCONN is a far better value.

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@Bloke123 Look at Southwest flights to Denver. I do not think it will cost $5000 per year to travel to Colorado from Newark airport. Typical flights are $350 round trip on SW. Jet Blue may also have deals. Frontier if she can stand it too. Twice or three times a year brings it to $1000 per year for travel and she can get frequent flyer miles. However, on the two universities it depends on the major to determine U Conn versus CSU for quality. Fort Collins is a great college town.