What’s the typical good SAT score for someone who is Latin American? What’s a good SAT score for Latin American applying to full tuition scholarships or top universities while applying to financial aid?
Here is an answer for you:
JUST STUDY HARD. What others have don’t matter. It’s YOUR score
There is no special score by region. For full tuition scholarships there are usually set numbers (as at University of Alabama), and mostly they do not vary depending on what region you are from. Thanks to @mom2collegekids, there is [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html#latest%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html#latest]this[/url] link to scholarship links.
For “top” universities, it depends on what you call “top”. The tippy-top (Harvard, for example) promise to meet ‘full demonstrated need’, which means that they ask you provide complete financial information about you and your family, and then they decide how much they think that you can afford to pay, and they cover the rest (of course, you might not agree with their decision). You can get an idea as to what they might estimate your “Expected Financial Contribution” (EFC) would be by running a “Net Price Calculator” (NPC), (there’s a link on every college website in the Financial section). If your parents own their own business or have a lot of investments (esp real estate) the calculator may not be very accurate.
A few universities are ‘need blind’- that is, they don’t look to see if you need financial aid before they decide whether or not to accept you, others are ‘need-aware’- that is, they take into account your financial need before deciding whether to offer you a place. Most universities have different policies for domestic and international students.
As for what’s a good score: it depends hugely on what else you bring to the table. There’s a guy from Africa who just got into Harvard with an 1800 SAT- English is his 3rd language, and the rest of his application is so extraordinary that it’s hard to believe that he has done that much- with that little- at just 18. So, it can happen. In real life you probably want a score over 2000 to be seriously in the hunt.
It doesn’t matter whether or not you are a Latina/Latino.
You take a test and hope to score over 2000. The higher the test results, the more university and financial options you will have.