No one gets a 1565 on the SAT. You use of the English language in your post is very poor which makes me doubt the validity of your stats.
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Lol…didn’t catch that. Yes, his English is not up to par, but I was guessing he’s an int’l.
Right…there is no 1565.
Have you really taken the SAT or are you predicting a score? There is no 1565.
@saurabhlakhia There are a few good threads out there that discuss good schools that give some merit aid.
Be worth searching those as the info is already there.
OP sounds international and English appears to be their second language. They also haven’t responded in a while. Good advise is to find a school you can afford.
Yes, I am an international migrant U.S Citizen Parent, sorry for my poor English (third language). I thought only students can ask questions on this discussion board, so I was asking on behalf of my son. We had no plan to go to Ivy league school but he got really good score of 1560 (not 1565), 99th percentile as per his SAT. So i am trying to figure out if there are any scholarship chances from those schools.
But from all responses it looks like no Ivies will help out on merit basis. Thanks all for responses.
If you are a parent you should have identified yourself in the post. It is against the rules to pretend to be someone else in your post. It is ok to post and say my DS (dear son) has the following stats and was thinking of these schools. You probably would have gotten better advice. Your son being a first generation US citizen has a good shot at merit scholarships at some great schools and possibly financial aid at the Ivies if your family income qualifies. I would not have given that advice to an international student so I hope you can understand why you received some of the advice you did.
How much can you pay per year without borrowing? You can run the Net Price Calculator on every college your son is interested in to get an estimate of how much they might cost.
What’s your son interested in studying? Is he a junior now?
There’s rules on this forum? :)]
FYI…My daughter was selected as a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar at Cornell University and received a $4000 annual scholarship and access to $3500 to support internships. So yeah, some Ivy’s do give merit scholarships.
@URasSMART: “Meinig Scholars receive up to $4,000 per year to replace need-based student loans, depending on financial aid eligibility”, so it is still fin aid.
Yeah but it’s merit based not need based. It’s also listed on her financial aid as “scholarship”.
@URasSMART: It’s both. You don’t get that if you have no financial need.
Many of the Ivys call their grants “scholarships”. That doesn’t make them merit-based.
Regardless of the financial constraints, do we think this student’s gpa is strong enough to be aiming that high? Obviously the sat score is great, but I can’t see the gpa being Ivy range.
@mom2collegekids … I am well aware of that. My daughter’s Meining Scholar letter clearly states “because of your academic achievements you have been selected for this honor”.
@PurpleTitan … That doesn’t change the fact that it’s based on merit. I’m pretty sure they aren’t excluding full pay students when making selections for this program.
There is a need component for the financial benefits the Meining Scholarship
So yes, you can get the honor based on merit, but you get the money based on financial need.
Also from Cornell
@URasSMART: They are excluding full-pay students from the monetary award. See #34.
That’s what “dependent on financial need” means.
@PurpleTitan … I didn’t say they weren’t excluding full-pay students from the monetary award, I said they were not excluding full-pay students from receiving the honor.
In any event, I see no further need to go back in forth. My intention was to let the OP know that my daughter in fact received scholarship money from an Ivy based on her merit.
@URasSMART: Which is of little help if someone doesn’t qualify for fin aid.
The fact remains that you need to qualify for fin aid to receive money to pay for an Ivy education.
Op, run the npc on each Ivy+ and Little Ivy (nescac) college. Since your child is a US citizen, click us citizen. See if any would grant you financial aid of some sort.
(Do you know your EFC?)
But generally speaking, to get merit scholarships when there’s no financial need, you should look at flagships honors colleges, top CTCL collegeswhere you’ve shown interest, etc.