<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I'm trying to bridge a $10k gap. My grades are decent--3.15ish/3.3ish (may change at the end of this semester) and I have decent extracurriculars with LOTS of church involvement and leadership. However, the one thing that stands out is I got a 33 on my ACT twice. This is in the top 1% of the country, so I'm thinking there must be a scholarship or two for this.</p>
<p>Any info would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>It depends what school you go to. If you go to a school where you will stand out such as idk Uconn you could maybe get half your tuiton paid for but if you go to a school where everyone is as smart as you such as a public ivy like uva then you prbably wont get aid. However it also matters if you can get need based aid. Also ur actually in the top 2 to 3 percent which means there are actually alot of kids in your range who need aid also.</p>
<p>This is my opinion only. It seems to me that those who take ACTs only do not get the recognition for those high scores as those with SAT scores supposedly commensurate.</p>
<p>I also think that if you have low SAT scores, you are better off taking the ACTs and submitting those results even if they have the equivalence of the low SAT scores. A lot of benchmarks are made on a school’s SAT scores. Not so much the ACT scores. My son’s SAT scores were abysmal so we never released them and used his not much better ACT scores for schools that don’t tend have many students who submit ACT scores. I think they were more forgiving of those low scores because it did not bring down their SAT score averages which he would have done had they accepted him with the SAT scores. We were astounded at the schools that accepted him at that level, and many were formula schools like UMD, Pitt, Penn State, UD that the counselor was sure would not take him because he was below their 25% mark in test scores. It was no skin of their rankings to take him whereas had we reported those low SAT scores, they would have had to have been averaged into the mix.</p>
<p>By the same token a high ACT score isn’t going to help the school SAT rankings as well as a kid with equally high % scores in the SAT. It seems to me they would give the money and take the SAT kid first unless it is a school that works primarily with ACT scores, but even those schools look hungrily on high SAT scores.</p>
<p>Xigbar has his/her admission already, but is looking to pick up some spare change to help cover costs at a specific university. I can’t think of any outside scholarships that are specifically ACT dependent. Maybe a google search for “scholarship+ACT+33” will come up with something?</p>
<p>I don’t know of any outside scholarships for having high ACTs. If there are any it may be a bit late to be applying for them. Most deadlines for scholarships are long past. </p>
<p>The most common scholarships for high ACT scores are school’s own scholarships. Usually schools where the high ACT score is much higher than the average ACT score at that school. My daughter has one at her school which offers fairly generous scholarships for ACTs of 32 and a composite of 133 (yes weird, but that was the cut off 4 years ago) or higher. Most scholarships for high ACTs or SATs also have a minimum GPA cut off. (At my daughter’s school the cut off was 3.75).</p>
<p>Unless your school offers scholarships for 33 ACT that do not require a minimum GPA cut off, I think you are unlikely to find one.</p>
<p>To clarify, yes I am looking for outside scholarships. I got a $12.5k scholarship at my school for my ACT score+GPA+extra curriculars.</p>
<p>I did not take the SAT either as I knew 100% that I was going to a school in MN, where they take (and sometimes even require) the ACT.</p>