DD interested in University of Alabama

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a NMSF with 1580 SAT interested in Univ of Alabama. CS major. Any feedback is appreciated. It will be out of state for us, we are from MD. Her other choice is Pitt. How long do they take to communicate decisions.

Your daughter's automatic scholarship at UA is $28k, which makes the direct cost of attendance (tuition, fees, r&b) $22k. If she has a 4.0 and can get her SATs to 1600, she will get a full ride. UMD's direct cost is $28k, plus a $3k premium junior and senior years for CS. DD's stats are very likely to qualify for some level of merit at UMD, bringing the cost in line with UA with her current stats. As someone else mentioned, if she qualifies for the BK scholarship, that will cover half or all of the direct costs. UMD has a much, much stronger CS program than UA. Both have major sports. But of course, the enthusiasm around football at UA is not a fair fight with UMD.

Just to reiterate, OP is a NMSF. Her automatic scholarship is more than a full ride.

NMSF qualifies for the Presidential scholarship, which is the $28k noted above. NMF qualifies for the full ride+, so not relevant to OP.
https://afford.ua.edu/scholarships/national-merit/

NMSF are announced in the fall. NMFs are announced in February. About 95% of NMSFs qualify as NMFs. So Alabama's full ride+ is directly relevant to OP. Everyone who received that scholarship was a NMSF in the fall of their senior year.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you really want to send your daughter to school in the South now? I know that plenty of people still are, and we just had a family friend send their daughter to school in South Carolina. I don’t get it though. Someone that is doing this that thinks they are going to be able to buy themselves out of any problems is going to end up regretting it. Don’t send your daughter someplace where this is a second-class citizen.

Oh shut up nerd.

Ignore the Trumpers. I wouldn’t send my daughters to red state schools if they paid us and we are totally horrified by those who do. Low class.

Stay in the North then, Dobbs dork. The Sun Belt won't miss you.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you really want to send your daughter to school in the South now? I know that plenty of people still are, and we just had a family friend send their daughter to school in South Carolina. I don’t get it though. Someone that is doing this that thinks they are going to be able to buy themselves out of any problems is going to end up regretting it. Don’t send your daughter someplace where this is a second-class citizen.

Oh shut up nerd.

Ignore the Trumpers. I wouldn’t send my daughters to red state schools if they paid us and we are totally horrified by those who do. Low class.

Stay in the North then, Dobbs dork. The Sun Belt won't miss you.

This the best you got?

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If she wants a really nice SEC school, maybe Georgia. Their honors college is top notch, and UGA is much more highly ranked than Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm similarly confused. If you have those stats at least try to go to one of the better schools.

You are not familiar with people choosing schools for merit scholarships?

I think those kind of comments are from teenagers whose parents are paying their tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a NMSF with 1580 SAT interested in Univ of Alabama. CS major. Any feedback is appreciated. It will be out of state for us, we are from MD. Her other choice is Pitt. How long do they take to communicate decisions.

Yes you ate stupid to pay OOS for that.

Really just throwing your money in the trash.

Oh dear Oroject 2025 won’t impact your kid no sir eeeee dummy

you are stupid. an NMF will NOT be paying OOS tuition, idiot.

plenty of alabama kids working for FAANG and the like.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you really want to send your daughter to school in the South now? I know that plenty of people still are, and we just had a family friend send their daughter to school in South Carolina. I don’t get it though. Someone that is doing this that thinks they are going to be able to buy themselves out of any problems is going to end up regretting it. Don’t send your daughter someplace where this is a second-class citizen.

Oh shut up nerd.

Ignore the Trumpers. I wouldn’t send my daughters to red state schools if they paid us and we are totally horrified by those who do. Low class.

Stay in the North then, Dobbs dork. The Sun Belt won't miss you.

This the best you got?

NP-Honestly stop trying to do this on every post about a Southern school, it's played out and not in anyway relevant to the OP. No one wants to hear your ideological codswallop for the 30th time, even people that may agree with you. Just quietly read the room, take the hint and stop posting, same to the ranking snobs.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a NMSF with 1580 SAT interested in Univ of Alabama. CS major. Any feedback is appreciated. It will be out of state for us, we are from MD. Her other choice is Pitt. How long do they take to communicate decisions.

Why do you use acronyms to start with? I have no idea what a "NMSF" is?

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But then you have to live in Alabama. Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is a NMSF with 1580 SAT interested in Univ of Alabama. CS major. Any feedback is appreciated. It will be out of state for us, we are from MD. Her other choice is Pitt. How long do they take to communicate decisions.

Why do you use acronyms to start with? I have no idea what a "NMSF" is?

National Merit Semifinalist

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Anonymous wrote:But then you have to live in Alabama. Alabama.

Like the rest of the country, cities and college towns are usually blue dots even in the reddest states. Tuscaloosa is no different.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you really want to send your daughter to school in the South now? I know that plenty of people still are, and we just had a family friend send their daughter to school in South Carolina. I don’t get it though. Someone that is doing this that thinks they are going to be able to buy themselves out of any problems is going to end up regretting it. Don’t send your daughter someplace where this is a second-class citizen.

Oh shut up nerd.

Ignore the Trumpers. I wouldn’t send my daughters to red state schools if they paid us and we are totally horrified by those who do. Low class.

Stay in the North then, Dobbs dork. The Sun Belt won't miss you.

This the best you got?

NP-Honestly stop trying to do this on every post about a Southern school, it's played out and not in anyway relevant to the OP. No one wants to hear your ideological codswallop for the 30th time, even people that may agree with you. Just quietly read the room, take the hint and stop posting, same to the ranking snobs.

Klantastic!

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Anonymous wrote:If she wants a really nice SEC school, maybe Georgia. Their honors college is top notch, and UGA is much more highly ranked than Alabama.

The State of Georgia gives full ride scholarships to high stats in state students at UGA and GT, but has nothing like Alabama's program for OOS students.

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Anonymous wrote:But then you have to live in Alabama. Alabama.

Like the rest of the country, cities and college towns are usually blue dots even in the reddest states. Tuscaloosa is no different.

I think the kids going to these Southern schools are trying to escape the politics on Northern campuses. If you are passionate about politics it might be better to go to school in the North East.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is also NMSF and applied to Alabama. The recruiter visited his school last week and he was the only kid in the session - he said it went really well. He applied almost 3 weeks ago and still waiting on decision.

We are looking at full rides so applied to Alabama, USF, UCF, UT Dallas, U of S Carolina, and U of Oklahoma.

Plus other schools including VT, GMU, USC, U of Arizona, U of MN, NEU and Purdue.

Have you visited Bama yet? We plan to go in December

That's quite the assortment of mediocrity

You’re a peach! Have the day you deserve

I agree this poster is a jerk. But I do wonder why the OP doesn't have "higher ranked" schools on her list. Just to look and have choices. Just a bit strange.

Plenty of people would rather not spend 400k for a top school when they can get paid to attend Bama thanks to the NMSF award.

But my point is that there are other schools that would also provide similar aid. I am not making the north v south point. But UA isn’t the only school that gives great aid.