<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.19
sat: 2100
Great EC, including leading charity movement for 7 years at my school raising total 18000, paid internship at investment firm, starting a band, as well as a men's volleyball team, soccer jv for 4 years, and others</p>
<p>Dilemma: Parents are not willing to pay more than 20K a year for undergrad although they can afford to pay a lot more and therefore financial aid will not be available. Consequently, I am looking for great academic scholarships so that I don't have to go to my state school: GA Tech.
Areas interested in: Major in Economics, maybe double major with finance.</p>
<p>As a student with dual citizenship (french), I pay Quebec prices at their state schools including McGill so at the moment McGill is my top choice if I don't get good academic scholarships to other great schools.</p>
<p>Schools currently interested in:
Ga Tech and UGA as safeties (always an option)</p>
<p>Dream school/school I will to if I get in:
McGIll</p>
<p>Other schools for scholarships:
UMiami
Tulane
GW</p>
<p>Reach for scholarships:
Claremont McKenna - Frank seavers scholarship
Wash U STL
USC</p>
<p>State schools:
UVA
UMICH
UWISC
WIlliam & Mary</p>
<p>Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I would like more options/ideas as well as opinion on my current list.</p>
<p>You’ll find great academic scholarships at schools in which you represent the caliber of student that the institution could rarely hope to attract without financial incentives. The purpose in attracting you there with a scholarship will be to enable you to provide role modeling and inspiration for your fellow students - not the other way around. In other words, you’ll need to apply to schools for which you appear “overqualified.”</p>
<p>Michigan is very expensive for out-of-state students. Virginia and William & Mary are pretty expensive out-of-state too, I believe. Do some research, there is a wide range of prices among public universities for out-of-state tuition…some are a real bargain, and some are almost as expensive as private universities.</p>
<p>Virginia and W&M are quite expensive. Both have some merit money available for OOS students but you have to have pretty exceptional stats to access that aid from what I understand. Perhaps someone with more familiarity with these two schools can chime in.</p>
<p>I Can’t believe you’d rather be at McGill than at Georgia Tech. Georgi Tech is fantastic school and has world-wide recognition. </p>
<p>Of all the schools in your list, Michigan is the clear the best choice, followed by UVa, but like everyone here is saying, it’s quite expensive to attend in either school as an OOS if you don’t have FA/scholarship.</p>
<p>McGill is also a fantastic school, is better than GaTech in all fields apart from engineering which is not my interest at all, and is in a location 100x better than Atlanta (where I currently live).
That is my worry with these other state schools =/ which ones do you think offer the best scholarships?</p>
<p>Again Tigrouflip, “excellent” schools is going to be relative for applicants, based upon the competitiveness of their own credentials. What I might consider excellent, because it would constitute a reach for me, may look like a safety school to you. But bear in mind that colleges don’t offer athletic scholarships to the types of athletes who might just turn up by chance in their student bodies. They handpick athletic scholarship recipients who would never otherwise just decide to come to their school. The same is true for academics. You can easily check the 25%ile - 75%ile SAT ranges for any school; assume that to get much in the way of merit money, you’ll have to be well above their 90th %ile. </p>
<p>The best school you could get into with a significant tuition discount would be McGill. The next would be Ga Tech. Miami, as you know, lists SAT and GPA threshold levels for various scholarships but doesn’t guarantee the scholarship to everyone with those credentials.</p>
<p>The U. of Alabama has guaranteed scholarships for which I believe you may qualify - they’re actually more generous than the HOPE Grant if you’re from GA. I think DePauw U. may still have guaranteed amounts on their website based on the same qualifications, but they’re lower amounts. I’ve heard of GA students getting nice scholarships from Presbyterian College - you’d be well above their 75th %ile.</p>