<p>So I'm trying to add in just one more safety to my list of colleges and I can't decide, or to be honest find one with the merit aid part other than probably Stonybrook but I really don't want to go to a college like 20min away from home... (So even if i apply and get in I feel like I just won't go) So I'm wondering if anyone can suggest me such a safety college for studying both computer science and business preferably in the northeast? </p>
<p>How much aid do you need? How much do you want to spend each year?</p>
<p>How do you define “big aid” from Nova?</p>
<p>The CS award is “up to $8k per year”…and need is considered.</p>
<p>Villanova Computing Scholars (ViCS)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Eligibility: Applicants must be admitted to the Computer Science major with demonstrated financial need.
Award: Up to $8,000 per year</p>
<p>Do you qualify for financial aid? How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>Well a financial safety so like somewhat below $10,000 perhaps? (Obviously full ride would be nice) And I don’t know much about aid at Nova just that I remember reading somewhere because their CS department is so small, they give preference and more aid to CS majors.</p>
<p>*Well a financial safety so like somewhat below $10,000 perhaps? (Obviously full ride would be nice) *</p>
<p>So, you’re saying that at your financial safety, you want to spend about $10k or less? That won’t happen at Villanova. That would mean getting a $40k per year merit…not happening.</p>
<p>Just because a school awards merit for a dept, doesn’t mean that the awards are huge. Depts usually don’t have THAT much money to throw around. </p>
<p>For a school to be a safety for you, you can’t be guessing as to how much you’ll get. A guess isn’t a safety. You have to KNOW FOR SURE that a school is affordable for it to be a safety so you’d have to know FOR SURE how much you’d get.</p>
<p>With your stats, Alabama would give you free tuition plus 2500 per year (for CS). That could be a safety for you, but remaining costs will be about $13k per year. Bama has a brand new Science and Engineering Complex. The campus is beautiful and many NY students go there. The frosh classes have been greater than 50% OOS for the last 3 years.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekida eh sorry I should have made myself clear, I’m looking for both financial aid and merit aid. Family income is 100000 before taxes with both parents working and well have 2 people in college next year.</p>
<p>Have your parents run the NPC at Villanova and see what you’d get. Keep in mind that a merit award is going to get applied to NEED. So, if you were to get a grant from Nova, and then the CS dept awarded an $8k merit, the school may reduce its grant by the same amount. </p>
<p>Anyway…Nova’s awards aren’t assured so you can’t count on that being a safety.</p>
<p>Ask your parents how much they’ll pay for each twin to go to college. With two going at the same time with an income of $100k, they may only be able to pay out $10k (or less) per child unless they have college savings.</p>
<p>Bama would be a safety for you. You could take out a $5500 student loan, and your parents would only have to pay about $7k per year (or less if you choose a standard double dorm).</p>
<p>Villanova comes out to be like 16 grand and my mom says 10000 will be okay so I’ll look into Bama. How about University of Maryland College Park (OOS)?</p>
<p>Total UMCP OOS cost per year is ~$38K. According to Kiplinger’s, the cost for an OOS student after average need based aid is $30,878. If your family income is $100K, I would not expect you to get above average need-based aid. But run the NPC to be sure.</p>
<p>Yea guess UMCP won’t be good for this. I might decide on University of Rochester, I was told by my counselor that it should be a safety both admission-wise and financially for me. Do you guys agree?</p>
<p>University of Rochester is strong for CS, from what I’ve been told, and they could potentially give you some good aid. Good option - I’m applying there as well, and it should be a safety admissions wise for you.</p>