<p>I just recently received my acceptance letter from Rollins College. I also got the Presidential Scholarship worth $18000 from them. I'm OOS, so tuition is very high there for me (around $55000). I know I should receive a decent amount of aid, including the Federal Pell Grant, due to my financial situation. My main point is, does anyone know if Rollins College is generous with its financial aid packages and stuff?? (sorry for using the word stuff there haha)</p>
<p>No, Rollins is not particularly generous with Financial Aid. On average they meet 80% of need, and that’s counting loans, student contribution and so forth.</p>
<p>Have you run the Rollins NPC? And do you know your FAFSA EFC, and what your family can actually afford to pay?</p>
<p>Rollins is private, so being OOS has nothing to do with the cost of attendance.
One of my children applied there and the FA package was one of the worst ones she received.
Many private schools cannot meet 100% of your need. </p>
<p>I hope you have other choices besides Rollins, OP.</p>
<p>Mike, did you apply to West Virginia as others suggested on another thread, as it is in state for you and you had excellent stats?</p>
<p>As was already mentioned, Rollins is a private so there isn’t a higher cost for being OOS. The cost is the same for everyone.</p>
<p>*I’m a senior in high school and have began looking at colleges. I live in West Virginia. Im a white male and the only money my family recieves is child support from my father. My mother doesn’t work. Definitely under $20000. I’m looking at College of William And Mary (debatable??), University of Hawaii at Manoa, American University of Rome, and University of Florida. My back up colleges are Hawaii Pacific University and University of West Florida. And I plan on majoring in Anthropology or Archeology</p>
<p>ACT - 28
Im going to retake it my science is what lowered me</p>
<p>Will take the SAT soon, or should I or need to???</p>
<p>GPA - around 3.8</p>
<p>I’ve taken 2 AP classes and 5 honors classes. I’m not sure Honors classes matter at all.</p>
<p>Also, what are my chances with these schools? Please help me out.
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<p>Did you apply to your instate publics? Does the state of WV give state aid? Your biggest issue will be affording your schools.</p>
<p>Did you try the NPC on Rollins website. It may not be accurate if it doesn’t take into acct your merit scholarship, but the Pell Grant will likely be right.</p>
<p>Does your dad also pay your mom’s rent/mortgage? It would seem that it would be too hard for your family to really be living on less than $20k per year.</p>
<p>“How will I be able to pay for college” was the title of your thread from September 2012.
You received some excellent advice from very knowledgeable posters.</p>
<p>If you had kept posting on that thread, we probably all would have told you that Rollins would be a poor choice for a family with a very low EFC.</p>
<p>Did you follow through on West Virginia University?</p>
<p>mikeCKY, because Rollins does not guarantee to meet full need and does not have any guarantees on what anyone gets right now you have he $18K merit scholarship (Congratulations!) and you will have to wait and see what the school decides to give you. They could meet your full need though you will almost certainly have to borrow and work as self help will likely be in the package, But when a school has merit money in the mix and does not guarantee to meet full need, there is no predictability as to what any individual will get. It comes down to how much they feel like giving you. If your stats put you at the top of their student body, and/or you have some attribute they want, you are more likely to get your need met. Some people do. Look at the Common Data Set and see what % of students get 100% of need met. If it’s 10% and you are in the top 5% SAT wise, you stand a better chance than are in the middle of the pack with average test scores. That’s the way it usually works.</p>