<p>URochester guarantees NMF $22,000/year. (US News #33 National Research Universities)</p>
<p>Excellent engineering program plus new UG business program thru its Simon School of Business.</p>
<p>Consider RPI. If he gets the RPI medal, he would get at least a $15,000 a year scholarship:</p>
<p>[The</a> Rensselaer Medal :: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.rpi.edu/undergraduate/admission/freshman/rpimedal.html]The”>The Rensselaer Medal | Admissions)</p>
<p>To the OP - He would definitely get accepted to U of Del with those stats. Not sure about merit aide because its really hard to tell with UD. They don’t have set parameters. I have seen them give over $18 in combined scholarships, financial aide, and merit aide to an instate boy with a 3.0 GPA from a single parent household with a very low EFC. </p>
<p>Would also be accepted at University of Md with those stats. Both schools are around $40K a year out of state. Probably be eligible for more merit aide at UD then Maryland.</p>
<p>This is probably beneath the level of school you are looking for but he would definitely be guaranteed scholarship money at Rowan</p>
<p>The Rowan University Scholars Program: (copied from their website)</p>
<p>The Rowan University Scholars Program is available to New Jersey residents and non-residents for up to eight semesters. The program is funded entirely by Rowan University to reward and attract recent high school graduates who have achieved academic distinction as indicated by high school GPA (minimum 3.0 GPA required for consideration) and SAT score. The following chart shows the level of award based on a student’s academic record.
SAT Range* Scholarship Amount Range**
1,500-1,600 $10,900-$21,800
1,400-1,499 $10,400-$20,800
1350-1399 $9,000-$16,000
1300-1349 $8,500-$13,500
1250-1299 $4,700-$7,400
1200-1249 $2,000-$4,000
1150-1199 $2,000</p>
<p>That could definitely be a safety school for him because that’s got to be a full ride. I am actually visiting the school soon because my son was eligible for their scholarship program making a very affordable tuition.</p>
<p>Ohio University and Miami U (Oxford) are very generous with aid - 1400 CR+M is basis for half to free tuition, and honors programs are available as well.
Case Western Reserve is also a very generous private school and is known to help shorten the gap some for families in need.</p>
<p>It will be major in enginering and minor in business. Should we concentrate on 2nd 25 schools with excellent engineering/business program? any suggestion?</p>
<p>Santa Clara
USC
Purdue
UDayton
SLU</p>
<p>with eng’g, being in the top 25 or 50 isn’t that necessary. Eng’g is taught well at many, many universities. In Calif ALONE, there are over 25 very good eng’g programs. </p>
<p>Since every state needs many, many engineers, the idea that there are only 50 good engineering schools just isn’t true. That wouldn’t be nearly enough to fill the need.</p>
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<p>After the 15K merit, that only leaves 45K+ left to pay :)</p>
<p>Figuring they’ll be going up 3K or more per year over the next 4 years that brings total COA to 200K… and that’s AFTER this 60K merit.</p>
<p>I was suggesting RPI to net222 (posts 50 and 55) who said that they are comfortable paying 40K plus a year, but 60k would be a stretch.</p>
<p>I should have made that clear.</p>
<p>The top 25 national univerisities picked by USNews & World Report for 2012, I believer, are HPY, Columbia, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, UPenn, CIT, Dartmouth, NW, JHU , Wash U STL, Brown, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Vandy, Emory, GT, UC Berkeley, CMU, UCLA, USC. There are lot of the colleges in the next 25 such as UVA, UNC-CH, Lehigh, Rochester,Michigan a number of the UCs, BC that also make their way up to the top 25 at various times to reallyWake, Vandy, be considered in that group as strict line drawing is really not the way to look at this as the line does shift a lot. There is then the list of LACs and regional schools where one can cherry pick what is considered the “best” in terms of reputation and name recognition and having the top students.</p>
<p>Out of that group of 25, the Ivies, Stanford, GT, MIT, maybe CIT(don’t know for sure), absolutely do not give merit money. You gotta have need (or in a few cases athletic prowess) to get money from those. Less than half of the top 25 as I have listed them, and even fewer of the next 25 do not give merit award. So, yes, the awards are out there, but to get a top award from a school like Duke or UCh is overwhelmingly difficult because the competition is fierce, You have to be the best of the best and there are only a handful of awards. The fact of the matter is that you have to be in the very top of the accepted applicant pool for much of any chance for merit money, and the more selective the school and the more high ranking kids it attracts, the less the chances of getting the big buck. It’s the way it works. </p>
<p>I can telly you that getting sizeable merit is not that easy at any school. My one son got merit awards from a lot of schools, nearly all of them, as a matter of fact, but the biggest amount was $5K which was not even 10% of the cost of such schools. His best deal was our state school that gave a $3500 award towards the already low sticker price. The other son with nearly perfect test scores did net some hefty awards, but not in the top 25, nor the top 50 national universities. At the schools below that point, some started throwing in some serious money off the cost.</p>
<p>Given that there are literally thousands of schools in this country, that about 50, if that many, maybe far less than that, give merit money doesn’t exactly limit anyone with a truly open mind. But, yes, if all you are focusing on are the schools that are highly selective and well known,…yes, you are looking at about half of them not giving any merit money at all, and you better be danged good to get any sizeable award from the ones that do.</p>
<p>all of your replies to this thread are some of the best on this forum. Thank you for the insight.</p>
<p>OP, are SUNYs are below the level of school your nephew is considering? My D with similar stats to your nephew, perhaps a bit higher test scores, and good but not amazing ECs, just received OOS Provost’s full tuition + $3,000/yr scholarship from Stonybrook. It is not limited to 4 yrs, can take extra yrs to do dbl major or whatever. The $3,000/yr. part is for NMF, but the rest is for HS record. It’s not a guaranteed scholarship, had no idea what to expect from them. Don’t know if other SUNYs have similar scholarships.</p>
<p>It’s a tricky business finding a school where one is up there in the stats enough to stand a reasonable, not even good, but reasonable chance of substantial merit money, and also have the name recognition and students that are his peers, if that is what the is being sought. A true balancing act.</p>