<p>Any ideas on a larger, non-Southern school that would provide some merit aid to a kid with a 1950 SAT and a 3.8 weigtrd GPA?</p>
<p>Interests and intended major? Home state? How much merit? </p>
<p>There is lots of knowledge here. If you add more details, we can help more.</p>
<p>Also…what is the CR/Math SAT breakdown and unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>His majors are fairly common - French and International Relations. Virginia resident. Nonreligious, more artistic than athletic. Kind of preppy. I will be happy to have any schools to look into for merit. The problem I keep running into is that it is mostly smaller schools who offer merit and he is adamant about wanting a larger campus.</p>
<p>710 cr 600 math. Not sure of his unweighted GPA. Maybe 3.6ish?</p>
<p>There is a plentiful supply of public universities in Virginia. Are you saying that you need something that will cost LESS than the instate costs for one of the public universities in Virginia? </p>
<p>I guess the question is…how much can you pay annually for this college education?</p>
<p>We have looked at the schools in Virginia and he will be applyimg to some of them. Just trying to expand the list a little.</p>
<p>You could try university of Delaware. I’m not sure if he would get much merit aid. But my understanding is the price is not awful for OOS students. Check University of Minnesota. They used to have very competitive OOS costs. The SUNY campuses vary in size. Their costs are also good for OOS students, relatively speaking.</p>
<p>Try Nebraska; Iowa;Kentucky; Missouri; Iowa State and Oregon State are just some schools that i can think of right now. Also Miami of Ohio- a public ivy with around 15K in students might be an option. I visited it at the beginning of September and really liked it. </p>
<p>Also my DS is a senior at Ohio State majoring in International Relations on a full merit-ride which consisted of 3 scholarships that could be stacked. His stats were almost the same as your son with his cr & m just a tad higher. Now I see that some of my DD’s scholarships may not be available to the same degree but Ohio State has a great scholarship called the National Buckeye which would provide almost the out of state tuition charges to a student. Lots of students get it. I believe your son would be in the running for it based on his stats.</p>
<p>My DS could have graduated this past August a year early since Ohio State gave him almost a full year’s worth of credit for his APs. He also was part of the Honors program so he had priority registration. Since Ohio State is paying for it I said it was okay for DS to stay for his 4th year to pick up a minor and have some “fun”.</p>
<p>Do the research because I know there are more out there. Have your son pick states in is interested in and then look at the state colleges in those states. Check the merit scholarship listings for each state. To be honest you have to go state by state looking at the respective university’s merit scholarship page.</p>
<p>I forgot New Mexico is very generous and if you contact the admission officer in charge of OOS he usually will give you a fee waiver.</p>
<p>University Nebraska- Lincoln is a great value.</p>
<p>Tuition : $19,808.00
Fees : $1,580.00
Room & Board : $9,532.00
Total ? : $30,920.00
George Beadle Scholarship : $13,500.00
Net Total : $17,420.00</p>
<p>For something different, University of Montana which is decent in the humanities.
Would probably get around $6,000 in merit leading to a total price around $22,000 I think.</p>
<p>U Iowa will be about $31,000 per year after a small merit award.</p>
<p>Iowa State would probably be about $23,000 after a small merit award.</p>
<p>U MN would be about $28,000.</p>
<p>SOrry - editing - I miss read - he wants non - South - try Towson, IUP, UD.</p>
<p>Haystack: I mentioned those schools because the scholarship information in recently mailings to my DD discussed some great merit money. For example New Mexico awards the Amigo scholarship worth $16200 a year which takes the OOS tuition bill down to $9700. Univ. of Iowa has the presidential scholarship worth $10K a year that can be stacked with other scholarships. </p>
<p>Also I remembered that Bob Wallace has a very helpful posting here on full scholarships for students which lists lots of big state schools. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918</a></p>
<p>Since the OP just asked for big schools that would “give some merit money” I want to add Oregon State which routinely gives at least $7k a year.</p>
<p>I am not sure that some of the names dropped in this thread really offer that much money.</p>
<p>Last year, my D, top 1% student, was offered to pay in-state money for U Mexico.
U Minn offered the same (actually just $5k scholarship because that is the difference between OOS and in-state.)</p>
<p>I guess it depends on how much merit you are looking for.</p>
<p>spritle - Are you having any luck finding schools to expand the list?</p>
<p>What about Tulane? I know it is located in the south, but it isn’t really a Southern school & they usually have good merit $.</p>