Urgent- Sr And Clueless!!!

Paying for College
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<p>DO I HAVE A CHANCE OF SCHOLARSHIP AT ANY OF THESE SCHOOLS?</p>

<p>i am a senior and i have no idea where i can get in with my stats. here they are:</p>

<p>-about 1320 on the sat (2010 on new one)
-captain of varsity sport for couple years
-involved in 2 varsity sports all 4 years
-200 miscellaneous volunteer hours
-top 20% at competitive private school
-founder and president of minority awareness club (though i am upper-middle class, non-URM)
-latin club
-several athletic meets with OK placement </p>

<p>i am looking at wake forest, cornell, tufts, BC, emory, amherst, nyu, BU, and UTaustin</p>

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<p>wake forest, cornell, tufts, BC, emory, amherst do not offer academic or athletic scholarships only give need based financial aid. So if you are admitted these schools they would meet your demonstrated need based on the income and the assets of your parents.</p>

<p>BU states in their policies that they offer financial aid based on merit. If you are admitted and at the top of their applicant pool then you would possibly a large amount of scholarship aid. </p>

<p>NYU does not meet your demonstrated need so there will be a gpa between the amount of money you will receive from the school and the over $40,000 per year it cost to attend. In addition their top scholarship is $25,000 for students at the top of the application pool. Most of the financial aid given at NYU is in loans.</p>

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<p>Emory does give merit scholarships, like the Emory Scholars Program.</p>

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<p>Emory scholarships, though, go to applicants so stellar that Emory is competing with Harvard and Yale for them. Last spring, the Emory Scholars posting on CC had SATs in the 1500s.</p>

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<p>Thanks, NSM.</p>

<p>The the chances of one getting a Emory scholar is so small, I felt it best just to go with the FA route because OP chances would definitely be better getting financial aid than they would becoming a Emory scholar</p>

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<p>wake forest has merit aid. they were generous with financial aid for me, but i'm in-state.</p>

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<p>Wake Forest is a private school...your residency should not have much impact on finaid or overall cost for that matter. Costs are the same for in and out of state students. In fact being from out of NC would actually be an advantage at least in admissions, as you would bring some geographic diversity to the school.</p>

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<p>This info's almost 2 years old so I suggest you verify before taking it as gospel....BC had a small number of presidental scholarships (12 comes to mind) that were merit based - you had to apply EA to be considered - they were VERY selective. Given an app pool of 20,000 kids these are difficult to get. BU used to offer scholarships for SATs 1500 & above (the old SAT obviously) - not full rides but decent money - other than that they were never known for generosity. Cornell - ivy with ivy rules - no merit aid - period.</p>

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<p>from BU financial aid site:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/finaid.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bu.edu/admissions/apply/finaid.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>**Because we believe in rewarding academic excellence, Boston University offers a wide variety of merit awards, some of which cover full tuition.* For a complete list of scholarships offered at Boston University and selection criteria, please see the Types of Financial Aid at Boston University page.</p>

<p>Need-based grants are awarded based on a combination of calculated need and academic merit. *</p>

<p>How does it serve the OP to know that BU gives $$ to students that have 1500's (on the old sat) if s/he is not fit the category (Remember the question asked was his/her chance at a scholarship).</p>

<p>It is one thing to say almost as a sweeping generalizationthat a school offeres scholarships but it is another thing to state the requirements for getting such scholarships and the fact that only a small handful of students are actually going to get those scholarships.</p>

<p>The OP is looking to get scholarships at specific schools based on the stats presented. In a nutshell, is OP really going to get substantial merit money from BU, Emory or Wake.</p>

<p>to get a full ride at wake: </p>

<p>Nancy Susan Reynolds Scholarships
Nancy Susan Reynolds Scholars must be not only excellent students and promising scholars, but also creative leaders who are able to influence others in directions likely to benefit society. They will have achieved unusual distinction in the classroom and beyond. Successful applicants have pursued the most challenging curriculum available to them and have achieved grade point averages and SAT scores that place them in the top few percentage points in comparison to their peers (often in the top 1 percent of their class, with SAT-1 scores above 1500). Further, Reynolds Scholars have typically been leaders in a variety of extracurricular pursuits and won recognition for their interests at the regional, state, or national level.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.wfu.edu/admissions/finaid/reynoldsns.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wfu.edu/admissions/finaid/reynoldsns.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>they have 4 competitive need based scholarships where preference is given to students living in different regions of NC.</p>

<p>This helps the OP how?</p>

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<p>I am not familiar with UT Austin, but when it comes to the other schools on your list, with the exception of BU, they all seem like reach schools: possibilities, but not schools to count on. If they have need-based aid, guarantee to meet 100% of demonstrated financial aid, and you get in and qualify, then presumably you'll get need based aid.</p>

<p>If $ is a concern, my advice would be to apply to colleges where your stats would be high for the college. Perhaps places like Rhodes, Clark, Fordham, Goucher or Ithaca would be places for you to consider. </p>

<p>Southwestern University in Tex. says this about scholarships, which sounds like good news for you: "Most students eligible for academic scholarship consideration at Southwestern rank in the top 25 percent of their class and score at least 1200 on the SAT I or 27 on the ACT (testing guidelines may/will be adjusted for 2006 high school graduates taking the new SAT I)."</p>