<p>Preferably the Midwest/Northeast, since I rather not go TOO far from home. (Live on Long Island), and a distance that you can travel by car (no need for Amtrak etc) would b awesome.
My parents will have a high EFC due to their income and assets, but won't be able to give money toward my education. I plan on applying to dozens of scholarships online, but I'm not quite sure how successful I'll be, so I'm looking for schools that will award me merit scholarships to cover the entire (This would be awesome) but to cut it down considerably would be great. I WILL be dorming.
Just looking for a respectable school for electrical engineering and a nice marching band.</p>
<p>Stats:
Male
African American
92UW 95W GPA
Bunch of APs/Honors
SAT: 1350 Combined (struggling to rise this to a 1450) 2050 Total
Commended National Achievement (assuming I'm not going to be chosen for semi-finalist)
Bunch of EC's (except freshmen year when I slacked)</p>
<p>Thanks for your help, and if you need more information, ask away.</p>
<p>Don’t give up on Penn, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell; Lehigh, Bucknell, and Lafayette–there are not that many AA engineering applicants, so you may have a big edge. Pitt is a very good school. WPI; RIT; Stevens; Drexel; RPI; Alfred for backups.</p>
<p>I’m sure UCLA would love to have you there, though no slam dunk, certainly. I wasn’t serious about my question, though my statement I was.</p>
<p>I was just trying to convert your gpa to a four-point scale, something better that I would understand. If 90 is around a 3.67, and certainly 100 would be 4.00 – I would also assume that it would be possible > 100 with weights, then that would seem to suggest your unweighted/weighted gpas would be 3.74/3.85. And you’ll undoubtedly accumulate more gpa points. Someone correct me if I’m wrong in my calculations.</p>
<p>Sounds like you want to travel a little bit, because thus far, you don’t seem to have the SUNYs on you list. Is this right? And no NY tech schools?</p>
<p>I’m just trying to throw some things out. My last questions are the ones I forward, primarily. </p>
<p>I have some SUNY’s under consideration, but I’m hoping for something outside of the system.</p>
<p>And a marching band is kind of important to me, that is why yabeyabe2’s list was helpful, but not exactly the type of schools I was looking for. (though some of them were and I am looking into)</p>
<p>U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has very affordable tuition AND an awesome engineering department. It also has this scholarship that covers about half of tuition, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>U of Pittsburgh gives out full tuition scholarships to those whose SAT scores are beyong a certain point, so perhaps you can check it out as well.</p>
<p>xrCalico23: That’s one of the main reasons why it is on my list. I believe its 1450+ combined (M + CR), which means I have to work hard for another 100 or so points. (Hopefully from my reading…)</p>
<p>Erin’s Dad: Ah, thank you. This will help a great deal.</p>