I am a current junior in high school planning to go on to study engineering. I have an unweighted GPA of 3.95/4 and I estimate I am in the top 10% of my class out of 530 kids. My freshman and sophomore years, I took honors math, science, and french, getting all A’s except freshman year french. I am taking 3 AP classes this year (Calc BC, Physics 1, and French) and I plan to take 4 more next year. Based on my academics, do you think I am eligible for merit scholarships at any NJ engineering school?
What is your my ACT or SAT score? If you haven’t taken the tests yet…ask your question again once you have the results.
My SAT is 1490. Sorry I forgot to include that.
You can study engineering at Rowan and likely get good scholarships with those stats.
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You might also get scholarships at NJIT.
You might get a little at TCNJ. $6,000 is their max merit. TCNJ likes holistic candidates.
Rutgers is not known for giving scholarships except to their highest admit.
Stockton doesn’t offer engineering but they have a 2 + 2 program. You would get around $10,000 for the first two years. It’s an option but not the best.
Gloucester county has teamed up with Rowan and had a very good pre-engineering type of program thought by Rowan engineering profs and very inexpensive.
Princeton only gives financial aid, not merit, but it is generous.
I don’t know anything about Steven’s merit.
http://www.njccc.org/njstars/nj_stars.html
How about the NJ Stars program?
http://www.hesaa.org/Pages/NJGrantsHome.aspx
^^more info about NJ state aid
I think you would get money from Stevens as well.
Thanks for the replies!