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Looking for schools that give lots of merit/financial aid.
Background - Up until about 2 years ago, used to be “poor,”- food stamps, medicaid, etc. Although my income is far from astronomical, we’re now closer to middle class but we have no assets, other than a car worth about $5k. Just did the FAFSA forecaster and our EFC is about 5k. My daughter is eligible for a 2k pell grant, too.
Her SAT (super-scored) is a 1570 and GPA will be a little above 3.8 (she attends a competitive, nationally-known public school). Don’t think she’ll make National Merit as her index is a 222 and our state was 223 last year.
Our state’s flagship has a very low acceptance rate for nursing and doesn’t give much aid. NPC says we’d pay about 19k/year.
Does anyone know of other schools we can look into?
Go to community college and get an ADN and then bridge to a BSN (the cost to bridge has gotten so much more affordable, around $10,000 and programs that are about a year long). It is one of the most economical way to become a nurse. If her stats are that good she should be able to get into a competitive CC or tech school nursing program.
I’m not sure what your net price would be but UAB might be a possibility. Great nursing school and those stats would qualify for automatic $15,000/yr scholarship as well as admission to dean’s nursing scholar program which offers path to nursing admission as long as requirements are met. I would run the NPC and see how it comes out.
UMass Lowell has a strong nursing program. Niece is attending this fall. With similar stats she is in honors college and got free tuition (also a D1 athlete which may have affected that)