University of Oklahoma with a 33 ACT?

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<p>Daughter retook ACT and moved it from 31 to 33. She wants to attend the University of Oklahoma. Her GPA is 3.98, or 4.5 weighted.</p>

<p>Anyone know about scholarship likelihood for her. She says she's a little short and wants to take it one more time.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.ou.edu/content/dam/recruitment/Downloads/2012.13%20%20Res%20FRESH%20Scholarship%20Descriptions%20-%20RESIDENT.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ou.edu/content/dam/recruitment/Downloads/2012.13%20%20Res%20FRESH%20Scholarship%20Descriptions%20-%20RESIDENT.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Looks like she’ll qualify for the Award of Excellence (minimum requirements: 31 ACT and 3.75 GPA) for $10,000 over 4 years. The higher awards all have a higher academic threshold:</p>

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<p>Thanks. She qualified for that with the 31. I guess what I want to know is how to find out the score required IN OKLAHOMA for top .5%. Oklahoma scores are lower than some other states, I know.</p>

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<p>From ACT website, looks like she’s at 99%, not 99.5%, so that must be why she wants to take it one more time.</p>

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<p>Apparently OK sums all of the subscores to arrive at percentile–and the cut-off varies from year to year. The site said for Fall 2013 the cut-off score was 134.</p>

<p>I know my optometrist’s oldest D is U of OK on a full tuition scholarship (and has some other perks), but her D was a NMF.</p>

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<p>Is your D instate for Oklahoma?</p>

<p>Is she a NMSF?</p>

<p>How much merit do you want/need?</p>

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<p>Are you instate for Oklahoma?</p>

<p>If so, a 33 ACT with a composite score of 134 would automatically qualify her for the Oklahoma Academic Scholars program. It is full tuition (NB - tuition, not fees which amount to almost as much again as fees at OU and OSU) $5500 cash to use for other expenses. If she does not have the 134 composite score, she would be eligible for the Institutional nominee Oklahoma Academic scholars program. It is not guaranteed and the cash part is $2800 rather than $5500 (my daughter had this one at OSU).</p>

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<p>Her composite score is 131. We’re in state. And while we don’t NEED all the merit aid we can get, I WANT all the merit aid we can get. Her math score is the lowest and she hasn’t taken all the math tested (due to weird scheduling problem – at her school, if you don’t take the highest math track, you don’t get trig until senior year,and she took high english track, high foreign language track, high science track, but not high math track). She thinks that with some tutoring, she could make up the three point spread. She may be right. She’s very goal-oriented, so if she decides to do it, she probably can.</p>

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<p>Does she have any particular majors in mind? There are many merit scholarships awarded to sophomores and above in certain majors provided they meet or exceed a 3.0 major/ cumulative GPA.</p>

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<p>So now she has a 34 (139 composite). The website references $5500, so I’m hoping that’s $5500 plus full tuition waiver. That would be awesome.</p>