Rowan Engineering Scholarships

Congrats @greatfundeals! That’s awesome!

Daughter just checked:
Bio Sciences
1430 SAT
13k merit scholarship

@greatfundeals If you could share intended major, GPA and SAT, plus any extracurricular stand outs that would be great! That is a wonderful award!

@flyingsquirrels Please share intended major, SAT and GPA. Thanks!

DId Rutgers offer you more money? If not, for my own curiousity why choose them? Will you commute?

@NJRoadie bio, 3.78 UW, 1250…Rutgers financial aid hasn’t come out yet. I live the town over from Rutgers so it’s by my family, and cost wise both schools are pretty similar. I’ve gone to basketball and football games at Rutgers and they were always so much fun. Also, I have credits that transfer directly to Rutgers so some of my Gen Ed classes will be out of the way. When I toured Rowan in the spring I felt that the dorming situations would be fairly similar, so that didn’t really sway me. In the end 2k doesn’t make that much (it does a bit, I know) of a huge difference for me to sacrifice being close to family.

@flyingsquirrels My first son got accepted to both Rutgers and Rowan (and others). He got 14k from Rowan and zip from Rutgers. That was last year for CompEng 3.6ugpa 760msat, 690 crsat.
Just wanted to offer that as a headsup that Rutgers might not be very generous. But do please let us know because my second son is considering Rutgers for next year.

@reformedman both schools are in budget either way, and 2k just wasn’t enough to make Rowan competitive and worth it for me. Now if I got 14k that would be a totally different story, but I didn’t lol

@NJRoadie Thanks, my intended major is Biomedical Engg, GPA 5.0 W, ACT 33. I only submitted my free ACT score and Rowan confirmed that i don’t need to submit SAT as they were in the same range.

Engineering
1470 SAT
4.0 UW
$15,000

Very, very grateful right now.

@MACmiracle I am so happy for you and your family!!

@MACmiracle I am happy for your family

@MACmiracle is that your net cost after loans and work study, or is that your net cost with loans and workstudy?

@reformedman That’s the amount of scholarship.

I think the cost of attendance is about $31k so that’s
about 16k net cost.
thats about 11k out of pocket with 5k loans. That’s actually very good. I hope my kid can get that too.
Congratz!

@reformedman Thank you!

Rowan has many benefits for us. We would have no travel expenses. D could even live at home but it would be a very tough commute, and because of the scholarship we don’t really have to consider that option. She even preferred the older, less expensive housing which would save at least $1000.

We also won’t have additional insurance expenses since she can use our health insurance as long as she is instate. But if she went out of state, our limited medical coverage could mean buying a student policy that can run $2000 a year.

The only problem I foresee with Rowan is the size. She really wants a small school where she can develop close relationships with professors. But Rowan’s classes are small so it could be the best of both worlds.

@MACmiracle CONGRATS! That is awesome!
These generous merit scholarships are amazing. I know for my S, it means being able to complete an undergrad in engineering at a school with an amazing program, brand new facilities, small class sizes, high four year graduation rate, all while incurring minimal debt. Truly a life saver for our family!

What is the actual COA at Rowan? Does anyone have a student there now that can verify it? I keep seeing it range between $28k and $33k. That’s a big range! I’m hoping it’s closer to $28, can anyone comment?

@toast18 The Rowan COA came up at the information session I attended. They presented information in the slide show that gave a COA that was different than the COA given online and a parent asked about it. I can’t remember which was which but the AO said the higher COA was with the highest cost everything, housing, meal plan, etc. She explained that was the top limit but not everyone would have that higher cost.

I can’t remember exactly but the higher COA might also include incidentals like travel and miscellaneous expenses but I tend to disregard that because things like travel expenses are individual and things like toiletries we’d be paying more or less the same anywhere. Usually, when I compare college costs, I look at direct costs and consider what our own travel and health insurance costs would be since those vary widely with each college option and can add thousands, or not in the case of Rowan.

@MACmiracle Thanks for the response. It is a bit confusing. I guess I should just plan for it being the higher number, and this way if it’s less, I’ll be pleasantly surprised!
What kind of engineering is your D pursuing?
And to everyone on here:

  1. Are you applying to the honors program?
  2. Are you fairly certain that you will choose Rowan?

On a side note for those entering Computer Science, you will need a strong enough laptop to handle MatLab and some other programs that are a bit intensive. If you want to use an older one you’ve had around the house make sure it can handle the cpu requirements of these programs. I’m just going off of what my brother went through when he went to college last year. The school’s laptop is about $1400 but you can certainly get one cheaper yourself. The benefit of getting the school’s laptop is that they pre-install all the required programs for your major and get you connected to the school’s wifi as well as provide a damage/replacement garantee.