<p>Are there any grants/scholarships that allow students who aren't needy to sign up for? I'm not the best of the best grade wise. I-usually- pull B's.</p>
<p>Are there any good ones for black females wanting study pre-med? Or just being a black female?</p>
<p>merit-based scholarships are typically for what they are intended…students with strong stats: high GPA and high test scores.</p>
<p>There sometimes are scholarships for URMs, but I would think that they might have a “need” component.</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>What schools are you interested in?</p>
<p>Well I don’t have my stats as of yet. I didn’t take my SATS yet and my GPA fell a bit from junior year (I slacked off, stupid me.) So I want to guess a 3.0, 3.1. I’m aiming for a 3.4, 3.5 by the time I graduate. I’m sure my parents are going to pay for a great deal of my college tuition since I’m not needy. I don’t have the exact numbers. My top 3 schools are: University of Miami, Georgia Southern University and Penn State. I’ve been living in CT for 3 years and I do not want to spend my college years here.</p>
<p>“I’m sure my parents are going to pay for a great deal of my college tuition since I’m not needy.”</p>
<p>The first conversation you need to have is with your parents. Ask them to run the EFC calculators at [FinAid</a>! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans](<a href=“http://www.finaid.org%5DFinAid”>http://www.finaid.org) and at [College</a> Calculators - savings calculators - college costs, loans](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Calculate Your Cost – BigFuture | College Board) Then talk with them about how they expect your family to meet that EFC. Are they willing to pay that much? If not, how much are they willing to pay? If they are willing to pay their full EFC, how much more than that are they willing to pay? How much money do they expect you to make with summer jobs and jobs during the school year? How much student debt are they willing for you to take on? Do they expect you to hunt down every scholarship that you can possibly qualify for and then apply for it?</p>
<p>Once you know more about the financial end of things, you will be better able to formulate a good college list for yourself.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>Thanks, and we’ve had conversations before about this. When I was younger I thought that you can get a loan and be on your way. They said that they would have to pay a portion of my school expenses. We have no clue how much. Not yet. I do not really have a summer job and if I get one, the money would be for my leisure money and maybe to buy school supplies since it will not be a lot. If I have a job during the school year I am not allowed to work during the week since it will take time away from my studies. I already have a college list, too. It all depends if I make it in, then we’d talk about the finance.</p>
<p>Yes, you need to find out EXACTLY how much your parents will pay each year. Sometime children and parents have wildly different ideas. You need to ask them if they can afford $10k, 20k, 30k, or more per year. Without that information, you could make some serious mistakes with your applications. Your parents need to understand that.</p>
<p>You don’t want to have a handful of acceptances to schools next spring and have no way to pay for them. There’s no time for a “do-over” at that point. That’s why knowing how much your family will pay is so important now.</p>
<p>Big loans would never be the answer anyway. New grads don’t earn enough to pay back big loans. There’s a reason why federal student loans are limited to the following amounts for the four years of college - $5500, 6500, 7500, 7500 (a total of about $27k by the time you graduate). Those are about the most a new grad can afford to make payments on when he/she graduates.</p>
<p>Getting your GPA up by the time you graduate will be too late. Decisions about admissions and scholarships will be based on your GPA now and maybe mid-term (which will only be half year and won’t count for much). </p>
<p>Once you know how much your parents will pay for, then you can make some informed choices.</p>
<p>Schools like Penn State cost about $42k per year and you can’t expect any scholarships or aid from them. UMiami would be about $50k per year. Don’t know about Georgia Southern. What is your interest in that school in particular? Just curious.</p>
<p>I suggest that you sign up to take the ACT in September and the SAT in October. Also, ask your high school what your GPA is. Comparing your standardized test scores and GPA to those of the middle 50% of various schools based on their common data sets will give you a better idea of where you might be admitted. </p>
<p>While I am just going through this process now with my family, I have read that merit aid is most likely if your scores put you in the top 25% of students.</p>
<p>Alright. I’m scared now. Last time I checked my GPA and rank was in April 2010, maybe early May and I had a 3.25 and I was ranked 29. I’m still going to strive for A’s this coming year so that the colleges can somehow see that I have learned from my mistakes and I am willing to give my all. Georgia Southern is a very nice school in a good community. I was just browsing through Georgia to see what they had to offer college-wise and GSU kind of caught my attention. They have a pre-med program, too which is good. I’m very confused on how this whole college thing works, since I am the oldest of my siblings. My parents both went away for college (they met there) but that was back in the late 80’s. Any advice on how to make myself stand out to colleges since I practically screwed myself over junior year?. I’m involved in karate outside of school and I’m signed with a modeling agency. I don’t know if those are enough for extracurriculars. I ran for class president twice, but both times I lost by a few points. I’ve been in all honors classes since sophomore year and a little bit of freshman and ugh, I’m not sure what else is appealing to a college. My extreme interest for pre-med?</p>
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<p>I agree with m2ck, this is way too late to confront how you’re going to pay for college; if you do this you may end up with NO financially viable options. It’s time right now to get you parents very involved in the FA/scholarship part of the process and have them run FA calculators. That way you can develop a realistic list of colleges that factors in both admissions and financial aspects.</p>
<p>Have you looked at the AA Student subforum under College Admissions? They may have suggestions there for scholarships for AA students.</p>
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<p>Another subforum you should go to is the PreMed Topics in order to have a better understanding of what being a premed entails. It’s NOT a good idea to take a “premed” program if you want to become a physician, as these tend to be vocational in nature. Rather, you can major in anything academic (humanities, social science, science, etc.), you just have to take the set of premed coursework that Med schools require. All of that is discussed in the sticky threads at the top of the PreMed Topics forum.</p>
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<p>Do you have the academic coursework, ECs and volunteering that would demonstrate your extreme interest in medicine?</p>
<p>I didn’t mean literally about making it into a college then we’d talk about the finance. It’s just if there is a college of promise and I have the ability to thrive there, and it’s not too far away…my parents are willing to pay. I already have my top eight schools of thought and my parents know about each of them. We know what the more expensive schools are and what the cheaper ones are. Don’t worry about the finance part but thank you for your advice anyway. I would just like to know some scholarships for students who do not have a need and some that are black female students? I apologize if I’m a bit rude.</p>
<p>I do not want to become a physician, I’m interested in cosmetic surgery. And I’ll check out the site. All I know is that I plan on going to medical school in the future and possibly beyond that. If a pre-med program helps me along the way, however. I will take it.</p>
<p>This senior year I’m taking AP Physics, Honors Anatomy and AP Calculus. I’m trying to find some volunteer work to do because I know a friend who volunteers at a hospital nearby. I honestly do not have much to prove that will demonstrate my interest in medicine.</p>
<p>I really appreciate everyone’s input by the way…I should have found this form sooner.</p>
<p>Of the three schools you mentioned, I am pretty sure Ga Southern is the cheapest even with paying OOS tuition.</p>
<p>It may also be easier to get accepted to Ga Southern than the rest even though they are going to raise the mininum SAT/ACT score for next year. It currently is 1000(CR+M) or 21 ACT.
Mininmum score to be considered for merit scholarship is 27 ACT or 1200 SAT. Study and prep for your tests and you may be in line for a merit scholarship.</p>
<p>I encourage you to visit all the schools. What you see on the internet can be deceiving.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I checked the tuition out for GSU. For out of state students it’s like 16k. That’s mega cheap for an out of state student! I was pretty surprised on how low the SAT score acceptance was (1000). I’m going to visit them all sometime this year. University of Miami and GSU will be later on since they’re pretty far away. I’m visiting the closer ones this summer and this fall. I have a feeling I will get into GSU easily just because my GPA alone is higher than the acceptance. Yet I’m not going to be cocky about it. You never know.</p>
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<p>One goes to Med school to become a physician (as opposed to other medical vocations such as nurse, PA, med tech, etc.). A physician specializes in one or more fields, one of which is plastic surgery:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.abms.org/who_we_help/physicians/specialties.aspx[/url]”>http://www.abms.org/who_we_help/physicians/specialties.aspx</a></p>
<p>As I said before, it is not a good idea to do a vocational “premed” program as your UG major as they are less successful in being admitted to Med school:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/569218-majors-pre-med.html?highlight=major[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/569218-majors-pre-med.html?highlight=major</a></p>
<p>Oh, I see.</p>
<p>I checked the tuition out for GSU. For out of state students it’s like 16k. That’s mega cheap for an out of state student!</p>
<p>Yes, that is low OOS tuition. However, since you don’t live near that college, you need to include room, board, books, travel, and misc expenses in the Cost of Attendance.</p>
<p>So, to attend GSU, it will cost more like $30k per year.</p>
<p>Cosmetic surgeons are physicians. Anyone who is a medical doctor is a physician.</p>
<p>That is very true. And thanks for the correction about the cosmetic surgeons and physicians thing. I wouldve looked like an idiot in public! lol. At the same time. 30k per year is pretty decent if it’s the grand total. But I think the room and board is pretty cheap, as well.</p>
<p>Alright then. So I have to major in something Medical Schools take, correct?</p>
<p>Medical schools will accept any major, as long as you’ve taken the required coursework (see the PreMed Topics sticky thread on Coursework). For instance, my D1 is an English major but along with the courses she needs for her major, she takes Bio, Chem, Physics, Math, etc. courses to fulfill Med school requirements. The bottom line is that you should major in whatever you’re interested in and can do well in, luckily these two things usually go together.</p>
<p>Oh okay. So what exactly is the difference if I were to become a pre-med student?</p>