<p>1) ipopova, For OOS, the amount given per year has to be ~$38K. Your total package should be listed as 4 year >110K. Remember you are OOS, so it appear to be larger then in state. Never mind you will pay in state. The U has to keep clear accounting and it will offset during the billing.<br>
2)Look at your package, put all those mention “four Years Award” into one category. Add all those scholarships together. Divide that by 8 (4Yrs x 2 semester), that is how much you will receive per semester. BTW, majority scholarships in this category has the requirement cGPR=3.5 for each semester. It is not easy!
3)Put all scholarships that you will receive for “One time or One yr”. Add them together. Divide by 2 (Freshman yr x 2 semester). This are the amount you will only receive for Freshman per semester.
4) Forget about this “Study Aboard St pend, Transition Scholarship”. This are special event where you will apply later if needed. It you take 5 yrs to graduate you are toss.
5) Don’t count this for now, unless you are super genius (I mean literately especially you are in Engineering). For University Scholar Award, Engineering Study Aboard Scholarship, Undergraduate Summer Research Program. The U most likely will give those scholarship to the Cream of the Crop or somebody did not have or little scholarships. It is the right and fair thing to do on their part. So, don’t count on this extra fund.
6) After all this, base on OOS estimate 09-10 $35.7K x 4 = $142.8 K, minus all your item #1 and #2, you will know minimum how much you should need per semester. Obviously you can get loan, work study etc to supplement. We did not have experience on that and cannot comment.<br>
Good luck.</p>