<p>FAFSA doesn’t use your dad’s income, but you mention MIT. MIT and similar schools use CSS PROFILE to determine aid. MIT and other top schools WILL use your dad’s income (and if he’s remarried, also his wife’s income.).</p>
<p>The link to the Alabama full tuition scholarship may be more better explained here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://eng.ua.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/[/url]”>http://eng.ua.edu/undergraduate/scholarships/</a></p>
<p>The above link will show you that if you score a 30 or 31 ACT and a 3.5+ GPA, and you’re an eng’g major, that the College of Eng’g will increase your scholarship to full tuition (you’ll get two awards…one from the univ and one from the CoE.</p>
<p>From the College of Engineering (for any discipline, include Comp Sci)</p>
<p>Students who have a 30-31 ACT or 1330-1390 SAT (math and verbal scores only) and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will receive a tuition supplement to bring their University-level scholarship offer up to the value of tuition. In addition, they will receive $2,500 per year for four years.</p>
<p>From the University of Alabama</p>
<p>Students who have a 30-31 ACT or 1330-1390 SAT (critical reading and mathematics scores only) and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will receive two-thirds tuition for four years.</p>
<p>And, any student with a 32+
Students who have a 32-36 ACT or 1400-1600 SAT (critical reading and mathematics scores only) and at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA will receive the value of tuition for four years.</p>
<p>And…as tuition increases each year, so will those scholarship amounts :)</p>