What colleges could I get merit based full rides to?

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<p>4.0 unweighted GPA
Class rank 1-2
2 APs sophmore year, 5 junior year, not sure yet for senior year
800 math SAT
740 reading SAT
Math honor society, Spanish honor society, National honor society, math team, math league, chinese club, 3 years of calculus, SGA cochair, Academic team, State student legislature delegate</p>

<p>Looking for engineering or business schools on the east coast... Thanks!</p>

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<p>University of South Carolina…look up the McNair Scholarship.</p>

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<p>Is Wake a possibility?</p>

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<p>You should go to the Wake website, and look at the financial aid section. Under the listing for Merit Scholarships, there is a section called Academic Based Programs. The following scholarships are listed…they sound highly competitive and few are awarded in total:</p>

<p>Reynolds Scholarship, Carswell Scholarship, Gordon Scholarship, Graylyn Scholarship, Bradford Scholarship, Wilson Scholarship, and Fletcher Memorial Scholarship.</p>

<p>All award full tuition, room and board, and a stipend for expenses.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve seen those… my friend got a full ride to Wake with comparable credentials… worse academics but sports.</p>

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<p>tons of colleges will offer you a full ride + stipend if you’re a national merit finalist. University of Florida is among them.</p>

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<p>There are a number of schools in the south with 3-2 engineering programs that I would think would shower you with merit $. Furman has a 3-2 engineering program with either Duke or Washington University. Check out the Lay scholarship there. Georgia Tech would probably be fairly generous.</p>

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<p>I can’t seem to find the scholarships for Georgia Tech. They seem like a great school.</p>

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<p>what are your PSAT results–if you are a National Merit Finalist, there are many great schools that will give you full tuition, and some will also pay for room, board and books.</p>

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<p>Not good enough, I didn’t study =/</p>

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<p>Powerhawk…you asked if merit aid (for full costs) was available at Wake. If you knew about those scholarships, why did you ask that question? Is there something else you want to know?</p>

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<p>I’m just wondering if my credentials are good enough or not to receive something like that.</p>

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<p>Go to the Georgia Tech website. Go to “office of financial aid”. Under that there are a ton of listings for scholarships under various headings.</p>

<p>To find scholarships and the criteria for those, you will follow the same procedure on each college website (that I have checked). Get to financial aid…and look for scholarships (merit if that is what you are looking for).</p>

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<p>I’ve done that, but of course they don’t tell you exactly the kind of credentials one needs to receive the scholarship, likely because it is dynamic.</p>

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<p>Yes Powerhawk…these full ride scholarships are HIGHLY competitive. Many require a separate (and sometimes lengthy) application, and an interview for the finalists. Your stats, GPA, standardized test scores, essays and recommendations need to be top notch for consideration for these.</p>