<p>Anyone know how hard it is to get OOS Regents scholarships to less competitive UC's, like UCSC? And how
much is it for? There is no info on the website beyond strong high school record and high scores are necessary.</p>
<p>I never said that becoming a Jefferson scholar was easy, only that there was merit money available to students specifically attending UVA. And even though it is administered by a private corporation, I think it is good to recognize it in the spirit of providing useful information.</p>
<p>University of South Carolina</p>
<p>1400/32 ACT, 3.0 GPA makes you eligible for in-state tuition at Ohio University.</p>
<p>The</a> Gateway Award Program: Ohio University Admissions</p>
<p>In-state tuition/year: $17,223</p>
<p>U of Pitt gave my son a full tuition scholarship. We are OOS and it covers the entire cost of the tuition even if it goes up (currently $23,000+). He would have headed to our flagship UVA but couldn't pass up Pitt's offer.</p>
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<p>I got the Regents' Scholarship for UCI. Not exactly sure how hard it is to get. I didn't get a super fantastic SAT score (it's around the average score for Cal admits) and someone I know who had around a 2300 did not get the Regents' Scholarship at UCI. I had a great GPA though. That said, I guess it can be unpredictable because high SAT scores won't guarantee it (although they probably raise the bar for OOS students). </p>
<p>UCSC</a> Financial Aid - UCSC Undergraduate Scholarships</p>
<p>According to this website, the Regents scholarship for UCSC will give you a $6,000 scholarship + loans and work study for OOS.</p>
<p>i got accepted to both umich and unc this year..</p>
<p>unc is approx 11K cheaper than umich (tuition + room/board)</p>
<p>umich gave me 0 aid other than loans
unc gave me around 5K</p>
<p>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) attracts top students with merit aid that effectively reduces their tuition to the same as in-state. Not sure what the requirements are.</p>
<p>One of my kids got good merit $ from Indiana - Bloomington and nothing from U-Az.</p>
<p>Too bad out of state tuition for Berkeley is ~42K. You'd need a pretty hefty scholarship to make it competitive with the private schools... especially given that private schools usually offer more personal attention and less bureaucracy (to a certain extent) than Cal making the few extra K worth it.</p>
<p>Second U of SC. I had stats some would laugh at in here, and got instate tuition.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh gave me full tuition + 4k/year which brings the total cost to like 3k a year. All merit, no need given
Not going though.</p>
<p>Arizona State will THROW money at you. Like...seriously, hahaha.</p>
<p>Have to throw my personal plug in! Stony Brook University (New York) -- one of the flagship research universities for the SUNY system -- offers generous out-of-state scholarships... plus our OOS tuition/fees/room are reasonable to begin with, about $21,000 total per year (including room & board).</p>
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<p>Chris</p>
<p>The University of Virginia is horrible with merit based financial aid. They are pretty good for need based but other than the Jefferson Scholarship very little money is given on the basis of merit</p>
<p>CU-Boulder, Indiana, and Vermont all gave out good merit aid to decent at my school.</p>
<p>SbuAdmissions --- We are visiting Stony Brook on Friday. My daughter has an SAT of 720(math)/680(CR)/580(writing) -- Subject tests of 770 Bio, 730 History, 680 (Math II), etc....she has a 4.00 unweighted (taken 4 APs and 3 more scheduled for next year) and a 4.9 weighted GPA.</p>
<p>She's looking towards a career in the medical sciences possibly thinking of the BA/MD scholars program.</p>
<p>My older daughter had a generous scholarship -- I think it was WISE but she decided to stay instate at PSU. I'm hoping that my daughter loves StonyBrook because the tuition OOS is quite reasonable --- actually less than or equal to PSU instate.</p>
<p>Our next trip after that is to Fordham next Tuesday.</p>
<p>PS -- My daughter has taken the SATs twice and would like to increase her writing score.......she really doesn't want to sit for the test again though. Do you think a small increase in a writing score would affect any potential scholarship awards?</p>
<p>Excellent! We'll see you on Friday. I'm doing the info session, so look for me!</p>
<p>Increasing the writing score -- at least at Stony Brook next fall -- will likely have no bearing on scholarships. We're currently using the writing for placement only.</p>
<p>The SfM program here is tough; I wish your daughter the best of luck, but it's a tough program to get into. They get hundreds and hundreds of apps for about seven spots.</p>
<p>Love the WISE program! See you Friday.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo has some good merit aid as well. I would love to see more OOS at the SUNYs, an of them. The OOS rates are still pretty good.</p>
<p>Pitt, Mich State, USouth Carolina, Arizona, Oklahoma are all schools I've known where you don't have to be a superstar to get some merit money. Financial aid is tough for OOS ers for the most part. It is the merit money that is helpful and if you qualify for it, financial aid is often forthcoming too to make a complete package. For highly desirable schools like UMIch, UCs, UVA, UNCCH, getting merit money is so competitive that you truly have to have HPY stats or something else these colleges really want. They have enough OOSers apply that some of them are under restrictions as to how many they can even admit, much less pay for.</p>
<p>sbuadmissions -- Ok see you Friday. Wow the SfM program does sound tough...we didn't realize that it was such a small program. That's OK because my daughter was also considering becoming a pharmacist or research scientist and who knows what else. She knows she loves science -- especially biology. Stony Brook sounds like a great school for scientists.</p>
<p>Good to know about the SAT and writing score. I think her score is OK and don't see the point of taking the test again.....she's excited about starting her applications.</p>