<p>Right now i am a senior in high school and want to major in engineering, preferably chemical or civil. I have a few colleges already ready to send applications to like </p>
<p>Purdue
IIT
Wisconsin-Madison
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Georgia Tech
Marquette
UIC
Iowa State</p>
<p>My GPA (weighted) - 4.489
unweighted - 3.75</p>
<p>Took many AP classes - us history, government, econ, AP calc AB + BC, physics, junior english and senior english, taking AP psych next semester.</p>
<p>ACT score is 27, reading brought me down a little.
The best colleges i would like to apply to are around the midwest and hopefully get some good scholarships (have a twin brother so parents will not be likely to pay for much). </p>
<p>Which of these schools (or others) will probably give me the most grants or financial aid if any.</p>
<p>Those OOS publics won’t give you the aid that you need. They charge high OOS rates for a reason. Why would they BOTHER to charge high OOS fees if then they had to cover those costs with need based aid. That wouldn’t make sense, would it?</p>
<p>They don’t have the money OR DESIRE to cover OOS students’ need with grants. Their own instate residents would likely be furious if those state schools were to give grants to cover those OOS costs. These schools don’t even have enough money to cover their OWN instate kids with need (and their costs are much lower).</p>
<p>The purpose of state schools is to educate instate students at a reasonable price. The taxpayers in the state subsidize the costs. That’s why OOS students are charged a LOT more. Their parents aren’t paying taxes there. So, the school isn’t going to give aid to cover those costs.</p>
<p>However, some schools will give merit for high stats, your ACT is a 27 which isn’t high enough. </p>
<p>Miss State might give you some merit for a 27, check their website. </p>
<p>In your other thread, I think because of your stats, it’s been determined that you need to find schools that are affordable instate. At that point, any aid that you might get would be based on your EFC after your parents’ income and assets are calculated after filling out FAFSA.</p>
<p>But, since FAFSA is for fed aid (which isn’t much), those OOS publics don’t have to do ANYTHING with your EFC, except see if you qualify for fed aid. So, for instance, if your EFC is $12k, and Purdue costs $40k, then all Purdue has to give you is a $5500 federal student loan…which is a drop in the bucket, even though you’d have $28k of “need”.</p>
<p>Ok…you are an Illinois resident. Have you looked at engineering programs at any illinois public universities besides UIUC? Start there.</p>
<p>How much CAN you and your family contribute annually to your college education? You need to know that number too.</p>
<p>Need based aid is based on your parents’ incomes and assets. Merit is based on your stats. </p>
<p>Did you take the SAT? We’re those scores any better than a 27 ACT?</p>
<p>FAFSA only schools do NOT guarantee to meet your need. You will likely find that your family will be expected to pay well in excess of their FAFSA EFC.</p>
<p>I agree with Mom2. Those OOS publics will likely be unaffordable. Go ahead and apply, but be prepared to walk away if the money isn’t forthcoming.</p>
<p>UMinn-TC does have relatively less expensive tuition for OOS students compared to other publics. But again, this is relative, it’s not going to be as cheap as your IS options unless you get some of their merit aid, which isn’t very likely.</p>
<p>If the student doesn’t qualify for tuition waivers and the parents must pay for all the apps, sending scores, etc, then the student needs to come up with a reasonable list otherwise this family-with-a-tight-budget will be annoyed as heck if they spend $500+ on apps/scores-sending to a bunch of schools that will never be affordable.</p>
<p>Come up with a sensible list BASED on what your family will pay, and what the Net Price Calculators indicate (after having your PARENTS provide the details).</p>
<p>I’d hate to see you spending time and money on a bunch of unaffordable schools only to end up commuting to your local state school or CC because you applied to the wrong schools.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that none of those schools guarantee to meet full financial need even if you are found to qualify for it. They do not meet t 100% of the need of all of their students. So the chances are not good that you will get your full financial need met.</p>
<p>The other thing that comes up is the question of what your family financial need is, according to FAFSA. What is your family EFC? With two in college, the parental EFC will be cut in half for each of you, since there are two of you in commge a the same time. </p>
<p>The big question is how much are your parents willing to pay for your education? By pay, I do not mean co signing loans for you, but how much from savings, current income and maybe Parent loans that they alone are getting can they commit to giving you each year. That gives you a starting point. You can then fill out NPCs for each of the schools on the list and see what the estimated gap would be between what they are going to pay and what the school costs. You then have to figure out how YOU can come up with that gap. Maybe merit awards (but many outside scholarships are just for one year, keep in mind), maybe you can work, you can take out $5500 in DIrect loans (if that isn’t already built into what the NPC come up with). </p>
<p>Your list should have schools on it that you know will take you and that you know your family and you can afford. That may mean local state schools and community colleges. Also ask your counselors about some schools that have come up with some nice packages for students with your stats from your high school. Look for schools where your numbers are going ot make a top prospect and see if they have some awars for which you are competitive. Go on ahead and keep some of those schools on your list that you have listed, but do so understanding what the odds are that they are goiing to meet what you need in aid or scholarship to go there. I suggest checking out some of the lesser known Catholic schools, tech schools and see what they might give to you in terms of awards. Manhattan College near me is a school that might pay for someone with your stats. Check it out. </p>
<p>Without telling us what your parents are willing to pay and what your EFC and a sample NPC for them, for a school, like, say, Brown or Colgate that have “clean” NPCs (no merit, meets full need), we can’t tell you a whole lot. If you have a zero family EFC that’s one thing. If your family EFC, or the sample NPC comes up to $60, the likelihood of getting a dime in financial aid is about zilch. But regardless, as others have said, those schools you listed are highly unlikely to meet full need for you or anyone, for that matter.</p>