Hey! So I am looking at these schools that are listed below, and I know that I won’t qualify for financial aid (income bracket is +$150,000), and my parents will pay for $35,000 a year (or the price of UIUC), so do you know if I would qualify for any scholarships at these schools? Thanks in advance!
I’m applying for biochem (although MCB at UIUC with biochem being second choice)
Case Western Reserve University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Indiana University at Bloomington
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Purdue University
My stats:
ACT: 32C 34S
SAT: 1450 - 710M 740W
GPA: 3.86UW 4.27W
AP Scores: Euro-3, US History-4, Bio-4, Lang-4, And I’m taking AP Calc BC, Gov, Lit, French, and Chem this coming year.
I have 100+ hours of volunteering in a hospital
Debate club for 2 years
Volunteer club for 4 years (w leadership position)
Medical club for 3 years (w leadership position)
NHS
Choir student for 4 years
Purdue is stingy with merit aid. My daughter had stronger stats and got $0 as did her school’s valedictorian with perfect stats. That said, the COA is around $40K for OOS so not too far off from your parents’ contribution.
COA at Case is over $67K. My daughter’s friend was similar stats was wait listed there last year so that may be a stretch to get enough merit to bring it down to instate tuition at UIUC.
Hopefully someone else can chime in on your other schools.
@momofsenior1 Thank you! I eliminated Miami Univeristy Oxford because it was more expensive than Purdue and since it wasn’t as far off, like you said!
Yet your chances at a scholarship at Miami U are much better than at the other schools on your list. Ohio happens to be one of the states where there are scholarships of OOS students.
merit scholarships from tier I Uni’s are really getting rare. My younger son was a National Merit winner and that plus one local Kiwanas amounted to a grand total of a one-time $2,945 merit scholarships. Unless you are willing to go down in level of desirability from a school standpoint, don’t count too much on merit. Now he didn’t apply to any of the big schools that support the National Merit with significant merit aid, and some of those are very attractive. (These are mostly large state flagships that are DI programs and he wanted to run Track and was a strong DIII level recruit).
That being said, my older son did get a UMD Presidential scholarship with similar (maybe a little stronger on UW GPA of 4.0 and all but one of his APs was a 5), but your test scores are exactly the same. That scholarship amounts to $8k/year for four years and brings his total tuition and R&B to about $32k/year for an OOS. So some schools still have it, but it is tougher. He was also accepted to UMich, GTech, UICU, McGIll, but only was offered the scholarship money at UMD. If I remember maybe McGill did offer $2k for the first year.
Can’t see Uminn giving you money unless you are NMF. CW might be an admission stretch, so no academic merit of consequence is likely IMO. If you need merit, you need to have higher stats or look at lower stats schools.
It’s hard to get merit aid at OOS public universities, which (other than CWRU) is what you have on your list. Some Indiana colleges offer a tuition exchange with Illinois, but Purdue isn’t one of them. Take another look at UIUC’s Honors Program. It might change your mind and give you some financial help.
No. I really doubt it. I am from Illinois. UIUC gives like nothing. Your stats don’t warrant anything at the schools you chose.
For good to great merit. Look at Alabama, University of Miami Ohio. Iowa State University.
Not all schools superstore either. Look at private LAC’s… Like Illinois Wesleyan University (assuming you are from Illinois). Private schools have bigger endowments and larger parent income can apply and still get something. Publics just don’t have it for out of state kids as a general statement.
Are you premed?
Yes, apply to Alabama. With the large scholarship for your stats, your net costs would be well-below your parents’ budget.
If you’re premed, and your costs are below their budget, will they help you with med school costs?