<p>Hello, I am new to the forums and have a question that I have had a difficult time finding an answer for. I have only made a slight effort so please feel free to harass me for running to forums before rummaging through the deep confines of Google and forum archives.
My situation: I am out of high school. I am not currently taking any college classes, but I do have some college credits(from community). I have yet to take the ACT's' or SAT's' because I attended a charter school for high school, enabling me to graduate at 16. I am aware that I should definitely take the SAT's/ACT's, but since I have some down time at the moment I was contemplating hitting the books and investing much of my time in studying for the SAT''s. The plan would be to take the test in a couple of months. I wanted to do this before resuming school in the wishful thinking that perhaps a high score would present me with new opportunities. I have always done fairly well on tests; I was not applicable for the AIMS(Arizona's standardized test) scholarship because I graduated with one foreign language credit short of the requirements. I did manage to receive the President's scholarship based off of my placement exam scores, but I disposed of this opportunity by deciding school was not my main prerogative at that time and leaving in the middle of a semester.
What I am mainly trying to ask: Are grants/scholarships still awarded for SAT(or ACT's) scores if you are no longer in high school? Do you have any other suggestions?</p>
<p>I think the question is whether you took the community college classes as part of your high school program, or whether you actually started college at some point after finishing high school. Most scholarships are limited to first-year college students, so you’d need to find out if you have so many credits that you’d have lost your first-year standing. For many schools, anything less than a full year’s credit would still be okay, but it varies from one school to another. Your age, though, and when you graduated from high school, shouldn’t matter.</p>
<p>Check out the [Automatic</a> Full Tuition/Full Ride Scholarship](<a href=“Automatic Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - #300 by BobWallace - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>Automatic Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - #300 by BobWallace - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums) thread. Those are the schools that offer guaranteed scholarships based on test score and GPA. Identify the schools you might be interested in, and then contact the admissions offices directly to find out if your community college credit would make you ineligible for their scholarships.</p>
<p>I started college and have about 3/4 of a year’s worth of credits, so perhaps this would be the perfect time to take the test. I appreciate the link, and will certainly keep it bookmarked. I guess at this point I hardly have anything to lose by taking the test.</p>
<p>You need to hurry. The last SAT/ACT are in May/June, then not until Sept.</p>
<p>You’ll need to check each school’s web site to see if you qualify as a freshman or a transfer. As @dodgersmom stated most scholarships are only offered to freshmen.</p>
<p>First, it is unclear what scholarship you are referring to–‘the President’s based on placement exam.’ Is that a state scholarship? Sounds like that is associated with a particular college because of being called President’s. You will have to give more info, unless someone from your state comes along who happens to know.</p>
<p>Second, money for school usually comes in form of Federal Grant if you qualify by income, Federal Loan for anyone, State funds as available, and money from the college itself. Sometimes students get outside scholarships.</p>
<p>Money from the college often is only given if you apply as a freshman. For some schools you are now a transfer student because of having taken CC classes. Others will treat you as a freshman since you haven’t completed a year. Either way your college transcript will be part of your application so if you left in the middle of the semester and have all F that is going to present an obstacle for you.</p>
<p>Also college websites will have scholarship info, like on this ASU page
<a href=“Frequently Asked Questions - Scholarships | ASU Students”>https://students.asu.edu/faq/scholarships</a></p>
<p>You should look up admissions requirements at the colleges you are interested to see what they might require as far as SAT scores. Some only need SAT. Some need SAT II tests as well.</p>
<p>Also, just so you learn something, look up “prerogative” because you misused that word.</p>
<p>There is a thread pinned to the top of the forum about Financial Aid FAQ. If you read it you will learn a bit how it all works.</p>
<p>I appreciate all of your responses! I have not checked this thread in some time, sorry about that! As far as the scholarship I received in the past, I am not entirely sure as to whether or not it was school specific. I feel that at this point it is irrelevant because I lost it. I was just using it to help illustrate that I have had some success in the past with tests and I already had a scholarship, that I now have no chances of salvaging. I feel that @dodgersmom did an excellent job answering my question. Thank you @twoinanddone, I actually had no idea they skipped those months so I will be sure to be prepared before then! @BrownParent, you are completely right, I did misuse that word, thank you for pointing it out; you definitely saved me from future embarrassment! I clearly have some more research to do, but your responses surely pointed me in the right direction.:)</p>