I’ll be honest, my son has done great job on tests but less well in the class room. He’s taken a ton of hard classes and has been involved with 8 plays in first three years but, that’s true for most kids whose parents are reading this. In his defense, he’s had significant challenges with health that have kept him out of school 10-15 days a year for first three years.
He has a 215 National Merit test score that should get it done in Missouri, a 35 ACT and a 3.4 GPA. We are in income bracket where we won’t show a ton of need but paying 50-70k a year will be felt for sure. I"m looking for the very best schools that love the high test scores, emphasize the grades a little less and have a technology focus.
I’m aware of the list of schools who give scholarships only based on National Merit status like Oklahoma and others.
I’d love to hear any feedback on fabulous school experiences in the technology fields that are also likely to reward high National Merit/high ACT and SAT scorers despite relatively average/low grade point and just 10% class rank.
Any thoughts are helpful as we navigate!
In another thread, you mention that your son’s weighted GPA is around a 4.0. Is that on his transcript?
At Alabama he’d get free tuition.
If he majors in Eng’g or CS, he’d get an add’l 2500 per year.
Alabama (and I think Temple) is/are the highest ranked schools that give assured merit of that size for stats.
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That’s going to be tough.
are you looking for a techie school like RPI? Is your son fine with a school with a lopsided male/female ratio?
Is a regular university with ABT engineering accreditation and good eng’g adequate.
What do you want your net cost to be?
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mom2college,thanks for feedback. I made an error. His unweighted is 3.59 and weighted is 4.34. I do think he’ll want to go to a technology school but more on the software side. Candidly, his passion is beating the crap out of the software on his android. Not sure what that major is:) Considering all options right including going to Liberal Arts school and transferring to an engineering school. I’d like right/left brain and a school that does both would be fab.
I’m exploring cost options …reality is, I’ll pay up to $70k out of pocket if it’s the right school, so price is a criterion but not THE criterion…
Thanks for your help!
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Well, then you can have an interesting strategy…
you can include the top schools that might be drawn to him by his software talents and will overlook his sub 3.75 Uw GPA…MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, and so forth.
and you can include the schools that will give him large merit for his stats…and let the card fall where they may.
Is he working on a way to best highlight his talents?
Mom, you asked a good question. The answer is…in process…debating whether to use the summer to make a phone app, write software, design a toy or publish a book that interviews interesting technology people. One way or another, he needs a great project to give him a chance and he’s been invited to do it…now it’s up to him