<p>Hey i really want to apply to SCU and i want to know my chances of getting financial aid and the amount of it, if any. I could only go if i received some sort of scholarship. Feel free to respond and post your stats and amount of money if not too personal)
Here are my stats...</p>
<p>uw GPA-4.0
w GPA-4.4
(sophmore-junior year) freshman year got a 4.0 and im a senior now.
SAT-1600 and 2000 (out of 2400)
SAT 2 Bio-740, SAT 2 Math 2-720</p>
<p>EC's and volunteer hours-
4 year pop warner defensive captain. 2 year HS football, defensive captain freshman year. 2 years of track, freshman year won frosh/soph thrower of the year(was 3rd in county), sophmore year varsity track. 2 years of Varsity tennis. 200 community service hours(80 helping with a non-profit cultural arts foundation, 50 teaching and helping run tennis camps, 50 volunteering at hospital, 20+ with clubs and others.) And i am the Leadership Coordinator for the ASB of my highschool of 3500 kids. Lastly i am the vice-president of the womans outreach club.</p>
<p>I would appreciate greatly if you gave me some feedback.</p>
<p>im christian if that helps</p>
<p>If you’re talking about financial aid, then that is based on need…your parents’ income/assets.</p>
<p>If you’re talking about merit scholarships, then with a 2000 SAT, you’d probably get some scholarship money, but not sure how much. </p>
<p>My nephew got a half tuition scholarship with an ACT 33 and a 4.5 GPA. That’s equivalent to a 2220 SAT. </p>
<p>Santa Clara seems to care more about the Math + CR score of the SAT then the entire SAT. What is your M+CR score?</p>
<p>Depending on that M+CR score, I’m guessing that you’d get about $6k-10k per year. </p>
<p>Do you know if you’d qualify for any need-based aid?</p>
<p>No I am average when it comes to need based aid. My math is 740 and CR is 630 so a 1370</p>
<p>Are you going to retest? If you can get your scores higher, a half tuition scholarship would bring the cost down to about $35k per year…which is not cheap, it’s about $5k per year more than a UC. </p>
<p>What is your likely major?</p>
<p>Do you know how much your parents will pay? </p>
<p>Where else are you applying?</p>
<p>I am going to take a different tack on this. If you are going to get ANY financial aid, you have to have need. Have your run your family financial number through any of the estimators? If not, you should do so, to find out what your FAFSA Expected Family Contributuion (EFC) is. That also qualifies you for PELL if your family is truly low income and for federal loans. I believe SCU also requires PROFILE which also takes into consideration other factors, so an institutional calculator is necessary too, to get an estimate there. These give you the MAXIMUM financial aid possibilities, not what the school will give since it does not guarantee to meet 100% of need. It also gives you some idea of what schools that d guarantee to meet need might offer.</p>
<p>Even more important is how much your parents are willing to spend. You need some idea of the maximums. Our family has a very EFC, but we can only afford to give our kids $35K a year, and that is a stretch, so they have to get at a half tuition scholarship in order to go away to a top priced private school. Or they can commute to some privates, go to any of our state public schools, and many OOS publics. That, or find some low cost privates are their alternatives. If any of them liked SCU, and it was on my son’s list as a Jesuit school initially, that half tuition scholarship would really be the only way it would be affordable. But an automatic tuition discount to a local Jesuit college made that a financial safety if he chose to commute. </p>
<p>What you should do once you find out what your cost constraints are is find some schools that are likely to take you that your family can afford. Such as the local college above for my son, or some state school options. You can apply to schools like SCU with stipulations as well, but understand that those are your lottery tickets. The most important schools to find, are the sure things. Once you have them in place, you can go at increasing your chances at schools where maybe you 'll be accepted and maybe enough money will come up so that you can afford to go.</p>
<p>Thank you. i am going to major in electrical engineering</p>