<p>I'm looking for schools that award generous (and preferably automatic) scholarships to students with GPA's at around 3.6 (or less), and a 27-29 ACT. I've been searching but am having trouble coming up with examples.</p>
<p>One example I've found is Seton Hall which gives very generous scholarships (Such as full tuition for students with a 3.5/29 ACT, and full tuition/R & B for a 3.5/32 ACT).</p>
<p>Can someone help me out please?</p>
<p>Anyone able to help?</p>
<p>Walt, I have heard that Tulane and Denison are good with aid.</p>
<p>Tulane will give you up to a half-scholarship automatically with your acceptance--no other paperwork need be filed. You can also get up to a full scholarship with another application for the Community Service or Dean's Scholarships. But I believe the due date is the 15th for the scholarship apps so you'd need to act fast to get more than half. That is all before need based though.</p>
<p>You may also want to look into Case Western University, The University of Texas at Dallas, and Southwestern University. All are excellent schools with great merit aid program. Southwestern actually has a chart which shows how much aid you get with certain grades and SAT Scores. For example, top 5% in your class and a 1450+ earns a $15,000 base award with the potential for more. I believe if you are at least in the top quarter and have a 1200 you qualify for some merit aid. UTD gives many full rides and it's a really good school, particularly for engineering and computer science (it almost run by TI). Case is a good all around school with fairly generous aid but I'm not as familiar with their policies.</p>
<p>Almost all schools at the top of the US News rankings do not give ANY merit aid at all unless you are a varsity athlete (and then it's really just Stanford as the Ivies and MIT don't do athletic scholarships). Wash U is the highest ranked school which gives any aid at all, but from what I've heard it's almost impossible to get any. Rice, Emory, and Vandy all have scholarships available, but then I've heard less than 5% of students receive them.</p>
<p>Just how above average are you? If that mean a 3.5 and 1200, then you can get a lot of money at lower tier schools, but not at elite colleges because it's either non-existent or reserved for insanely talented people. If you've got a 1600, 4.0 and have a great resume, then you might have a good chance at a lot of schools--but still not those elite schools.</p>
<p>u can prob get full tuition at university of texas at dallas. like theloanranger said, if u wanna go into engineering, comp sci, or neuroscience, def look into utd</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions thus far.</p>
<p>I have a 29 ACT/3.6 UW GPA, and I realize I won't get a scholarship at an elite/top university, I'm just looking to see if I can get a good merit scholarship at an "average" university.</p>
<p>Does UTD apply to me, or not?</p>
<p>utd gives out a lot of scholarships. ur inthe range for something, although the uw gpa is a tad low</p>
<p>University of Arizona-o/s tuition is on the low side and they give decent merit $$</p>
<p>Check out some of the smaller LACs in the midewst.</p>
<p>Also, if you pay for the US News and Report service America's Top Colleges ($14.95 I think), it has a very good breakdown on each school's page on the amount of merit money they award. This is one of the few places that shows merit info for many colleges on the same site.</p>
<p>In the West, check Seattle University (WA) and Linfield College (OR).</p>
<p>USAO is offering students with ACT scores of 27+ a full tuition scholarship that includes fees. Check out this link: </p>
<p>Chickashanews.com</a> - USAO releases new scholarships for high ACT Students</p>
<p>For more info on USAO visit USAO</a> - Raising the Standard</p>
<p>Wright State University (just outside Dayton, OH) might be good, note the "Green and Gold" Scholarship.</p>
<p>Undergraduate</a> Admissions</p>
<p>College of Wooster in Ohio has a great merit aid for GPA > 3.5</p>
<p>I don't know if the stats mentioned in the OP would earn the DSA or Founders at Tulane, which are the "automatic" scholarships referred to in post #4. But it is probably worth a try. They are "automatic" in that you don't need to file a separate application and will automatically be considered. But they are not automatic in the sense that given stats automatically equate to the award.</p>
<p>There is a LOOONNG thread in the Parent Forum (stickied) entitled Schools Known for Good Merit Aid. Many of the posts there id stats which have received the awards in past years and whether they are automatic or not.</p>
<p>There is also a lot of valuable information in that thread on seeking merit aid.</p>
<p>For a male, Santa Clara University is worth a try, though not automatic. Maybe for a female as well; but in recent years they have been trying to even out their gender ratio (as have many schools, of course).</p>
<p>Try Randolph Macon</p>
<p>In TX- Baylor has a merit award based on SAT?rank/GPA combo
In WA- Whitworth has the same</p>
<p>Each school is looking for ways to qualify you for those awards and will look at your situation in the way which is most beneficial to you</p>
<p>University of Nebraska and Baylor both let you calculate the scholarship on their web site. Also, several other flagship schools in the more thinly populated West have automatic scholarships based on SAT/ACT and grades.</p>
<p>I am Pakistani intending to pursue higher education in US. After some exhausting search I realized many colleges do not provide financial aid to international applicants. On the positive note many others do provide aid to international students. I will like to qualify for either need based or merit based or both as I cannot afford the expenses by my own. Do the above mentioned colleges provide aid to international applicants as well?</p>
<p>O' levels (Cambridge International Examinations)</p>
<p>Physics 95
Chemistry 96
Mathematics 94
Statistics 96
Accounts 93
Urdu 90</p>
<p>A' levels (Cambridge International Examinations)</p>
<p>Physics 96
Chemistry 96
Mathematics 97</p>
<p>SAT Subject tests</p>
<p>Physics 800
Chemistry 800
Mathematics II 800</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning test</p>
<p>I took on December 1st and expect somewhere between 2100 and 2300</p>
<p>TOEFl iBT</p>
<p>106/120</p>
<p>Southeast Missouri State University would give you full-tuition (out of state is roughly $9,600) with those numbers.</p>
<p>Alma College in Alma, Mich is very good. They have been raising their endowment significantly and it looks like they are using it to recruit higher academic students. They have offered significant scholarship for my D who will be a freshman in fall '08. And have invited her to interview for more. She has a 4.0 unweighted, 32 ACT and 2090 SAT with some good AP scores. </p>
<p>She is also looking at some other schools (St Olaf, Elizabethtown, Heidelberg and Wittenberg, but so far none have touched Alma's offering.</p>
<p>if you live in the NYC area, St. Johns University offers A LOT of scholarships for decent students...usually half of my school's graduating class gets scholarships from there.</p>