Out of State Schools and Merit Aid
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Anonymous
Being the only female in an engineering program is pretty unpleasant, let me tell you. |
Anonymous
Not the only female. About 20% My niece is graduating this year with her bachelors and is making 6 figures with an oil company that recruited her in October. |
Anonymous
Only if stats are high. |
Anonymous
Which school and what specialization? I'm assuming chemical engg? |
Anonymous
Their standard aid package, for those they give it to, is half tuition. They have a bigger one for superstars. |
Anonymous
| Colorado school of mines, CU Boulder both have merit aid. |
Anonymous
Purdue - not saying the specialty engineering. Not many woman in it. |
Anonymous
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Some good info on CC about automatic merit aid for certain stats. List is mostly for state publics if you are interested.
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21437224/#Comment_21437224 |
Anonymous
| My child had arts merit aid at Bucknell and we paid only a little more than what we would have paid for JMU. They offer a lot for kids skilled in theatre, singing, dance, writing, fine arts etc. It was very, very generous and you can double major in some other field along with the art subject. |
Anonymous
Not a fan of the straight GPA. My kid could have taken some easy classes in an easy public school for a high GPA’s. MCPS inflate their GPA’s. Rigorous college prep schools do not and getting a lot of A’s is no easy task. I can see why so many private school kids prefer private colleges that look at school, rigor, how the school grades, etc... compared to state colleges. |
Anonymous
These are a joke. Some only want a 30 ACT for the highest scholarships but a 3.75 unweighted GPA? That is strange. |
Anonymous
If the colleges are large public state schools, I’d believe it. That’s how they give scholarships to kids from rural high schools who don’t have any AP/IB classes and have few honors classes. It’s getting all or mostly all A’s with the curriculum that’s offered when you have 75 kids in your graduating class. |
Anonymous
I am not talking about comparing non weighted to weighted GPA’s. I am talking a non weighted English remedial class in a rural school is not the same as Literature in a college prep school. To just blankly state they take X GPA without looking at what classes were taken is a mistake. Pitt was the only one on the list that said they look at the transcript to decide if the GPA is worthy of the scholarship. The rest don’t care if you take only 3 years of math or mostly remedial and electives. That I have a problem with . |
Anonymous
But you're mad at a state with low performing public schools. This is not UVA offering scholarships with hard cut-offs. Although they allow in and give scholarships to OOS students, they primarily serve in-state students. In other words, NOT YOU. |
Anonymous
Look at Catholic, urban schools in medium/large cities, particularly Jesuit schools. |