@“aunt bea” A lot of scholarships I’ve read on their scholarship portal and information about how they fund research projects comes from private donors and endowments. I can keep looking around. The state of Arizona itself could use more motivation to support education, that’s for sure!
@Lovenetc, If your parents’ income is ~$100k, the only aid you may qualify for based on the FAFSA is a yearly federal student loan ~$5500/year). You can’t borrow the full cost of attendance unless your parents cosign a loan. If you have to borrow the full COA, the school is unaffordable. Ask your parents how much they can afford.
Did you apply to any financial safeties?
No, I didn’t have the money for the application fee. I paid for all of my app fees. I picked ASU because I really liked it, and since I’m a state resident and meet their general requirements, I was a shoo in. ASU was my safety school out of Stanford and USF. @austinmshauri. I mean, my dad said that we could take out a loan, but I figured that my work would pay off and I could earn some scholarships.
You paid with your own money to apply to Stanford with a 19 ACT 1320/2400 SAT?
If u are struggling to afford ASU instate, how did u propose to fund USF OOS?
^ I think she meant U of San Francisco (private). Same issue, though: little to no financial aid cause they don’t meet need & no merit cause of OP’s test scores
Can you committee to ASU? Does Barrett ( the Honors college) require that you live on campus? Commuting would cut your costs .
I suspect being salutatorian of your class influenced your college choices. It is important for you to find out exactly how much your parents are willing to pay for college per year. If ASU-Barrett is unaffordable, you will need to quickly target schools that are test optional and give big merit based on class rank, salutatorian status, and community service. There are many people on this site who will give you knowledgeable advice on how to do so and where to apply. Time is of the essence and you will need to move quickly.
At this point, it may be wise to suspend your scholarship search until you’ve been accepted into an affordable college.
Did you try taking the ACT or SAT more than once?
What do you want to do for a career after studying health sciences?
@Lovenetc, Did you run the Net Price Calculator on the ASU website? Unless parents own a business or are divorced, the NPC can give you a pretty good estimate of what a school might cost. If you haven’t done it, run through it with your parents today and let us know the results.
You won’t be able to gather enough outside scholarships to pay for a college that costs ~$30k/year. If your parents intend to borrow the full cost of attendance, ASU is unaffordable. The max loans for undergrad shouldn’t be more than the ~$5500/year ($27k total) federal student loan and many of us avoid that. I think you may need a new plan.
First, find out if your parents can pay anything for college. Ask them today. If they say they can help, find out how much they can afford to pay (without borrowing). (If they haven’t been able to save anything to help pay, it’s unlikely they can afford to repay a ~$100k loan). If you can work over the summer you could probably earn another ~$3k. Add the federal student loan (~$5500/year) to that. That’s your budget.
Next, take a look at your options. If your parents can’t pay anything, you may have to start at a community college. If you’re close to a 4-year-school and your parents can contribute ~$3k/year, you may be able to cover the balance of the ~$10k tuition with the student loan and work earnings. Just make sure to take the cost of books and travel into account.
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Your FA pkg from ASU isnt going to provide any grants because your EFC is too high. When you submitted FAFSA, what EFC did you get back?
You need to ask your parents how much they’ll pay each year. Taking out a bunch of loans is a horrible idea.
What is your career goal with “health sciences”? Are you premed? If so, then premed shouldnt borrow hardly anything (preferably nothing) as an undergrad because med school will require HUGE loans.
Its pretty late in the game to try to add any additional scholarships, but if there are any that still have upcoming deadlines, look for ones in which your competition will be small. That said, these are usually local scholarships, typical small ($500-1000) and not renewable. The Shire ADHD scholarship is still open but you have to have ADHD ands have a compelling story. Agree that your stats were, unfortunately, not competitive for many merit scholarships. The CTCL gives merit $ for your stats, but you didn’t apply to them, so it’s a non-issue.
I think Elizabethtown (a nice college in PA) is still taking applications and they’re test-optional, meaning you’d only submit your GPA, class rank, and an additional essay.
Run the NPC on ASU and bring the result to your parents: can they afford that?
@GMTplus7 Since Stanford wanted to attract all different diverse students, and since I’m a minority, and I have other circumstances, my application said I would have a lot of generous financial aid, actually. But who knows, that could have always changed.
@Madison85 Anesthesiologist or a pediatrician. I haven’t narrowed down yet.
@mom2collegekids Yes, I am pre-med. Oh, what a dream that would be that pre med shouldn’t have to borrow for their undergraduate!! But unfortunately, that’s pretty hard for a lot of people. Med school will add a lot to it though, that’s for sure!
I’m sure this is not going to be what you want to do, but…you could take a gap year and take the ACT again. I’m not sure how many times you took it, but you GC should know you have almost zero shot at merit with that score. I would say you need to add 10 points or more to get in the running. If you could take a gap and concentrate on earning $ and bringing your ACT up, you would be better off in the long run.
@imwiththeband Why do you think being salutorion influenced my choices? :I I stuck with ASU because I enjoyed the school and it’s offers. I had pretty much of a sho in because of summer programs I have done there, along with being an AZ resident who met the general requirements at that time.
I’m guessing the influence was that being salutatorian made you consider yourself a competitive applicant for schools that have a 95% rejection rate, like Stanford, when your scores are far below the 25th percentile there? At least that’s how I interpreted it.
How many times did you take the ACT and SAT? Why would you apply to schools like Stanford with a score 19? My daughter got accepted to Georgia State Univeristy. You couldn’t even get in there with a 19 ACT. Who in the hell would recommend schools like Stanford to you?
@bodangles No, because I go go a small school, so it doesn’t mean that much when there isn’t too much competition (I mEan i don want to is courage people who are in the top 1% of thwir class in small scools. That’s still good). I know I had low scores. I realize that. But I took a shot and went for it and applied.
You can lower your costs at ASU by not being a Barrett student. Barrett adds about $2500/year to the cost of ASU due to additional Barrett fees and the additional cost of the dorms and meal plans. There is also a requirement that Barrett students live on campus for two years. Can you commute to ASU? If not, do you live within commuting distance to UA or NAU? You can do pre-med at either of those, and they both will guarantee your tuition for four years. NAU costs less in tuition as well.