Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying good colleges don't provide merit aid are simply wrong.

Publics like UVA, Michigan, Maryland, W&M, etc. do have a small number of full-pay/half-pay scholarships for top students. You should be able to find it on their websites. However those students would need to be competitive for Ivies.

The WGPA is obviously great, but perhaps he could raise his SAT score in the fall. SAT has become very inflated due to changes and a 1500 is not what it once was. Closer to a 1600 and he would have a lot of merit scholarship options, including from top publics and great SLACs.

Considering he's male, good SLACs i.e. within top 30 will provide merit scholarships as well.

UMD tuition is $10k/year though. It's highly unlikely that SLACs charging $60,000/year in tuition alone - more than many top privates - would get that low. 50% of total cost of attendance is more likely, which makes it closer to $30-35,000 per year.

Sorry if it wasn’t clear…SAT is 1560, and he doesn’t want to retake. Does this change anything? Also, which SLACs are you referring too (I don’t know much about LACs!)

His SAT is 1560 and he doesn't want to retake, which makes me think that you suggested he do so. If so, that tells me all I need to know about you.

Anonymous wrote:People saying good colleges don't provide merit aid are simply wrong.

Publics like UVA, Michigan, Maryland, W&M, etc. do have a small number of full-pay/half-pay scholarships for top students. You should be able to find it on their websites. However those students would need to be competitive for Ivies.

Anonymous wrote:Washington University in St Louis and NYU

Anonymous wrote:Washington University in St Louis and NYU

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is trying to find strong schools that might offer merit as we don't want to pay much over the in-state price for UMD. UMD is a fantastic school, and he'll get in no problem, but I know he definitely wants to apply to some other good academic schools that might give merit. In terms of stats, from MCPS, not at W or Magnet, 1550+ SAT, 4.00 GPA, 4.85 WGPA, 10 APs completed by junior year, fairly strong ECs, probable National Merit Semifinalist, (will be) 4 year varsity athlete. Aside from Case Western and Northeastern, can anyone recommend strong academic schools that might offer merit? DS isn't interested in LACs and definitely not interested in any big southern schools like Bama, Ole Miss, UofSC, etc.

If you're more donut-hole-y than poor, and you could afford to pay, say, $20,000 to $50,000 in cash per year for university, maybe your son could consider English-language bachelor's programs outside the United States.

In a lot of cases, the tuition is less than $5,000 per year. Most of the spending would be on bills for books, housing, food, travel etc.

Challenges:

- Your son would have to figure out how a European bachelor's would fit into what he wants to do next. He should ask his dream grad programs if he would have to do anything extra to make his European bachelor's U.S. grad school compatible.

- Your son might not be able to get any kind of financial aid, including student loans, to pay for school, and he might have trouble getting student jobs.

- If he doessn't speak the local language, he might be stuck hanging out with other grad students.

- Programs in places like England and Scotland tend to be a lot more expensive for American students than programs in places like Germany or the Netherlands.

Here's a site that talks about the cheap programs:

https://www.bachelorsportal.com/articles/2440/8-affordable-eu-countries-for-studying-a-bachelors-degree-abroad-in-2021.html

Also, see:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-english-speaking-bachelors-programs-eu/

https://www.educations.com/search/institutes/bachelors-degree-on-campus-english-europe/a62-b600-c747-d58?languageId=1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying good colleges don't provide merit aid are simply wrong.

Publics like UVA, Michigan, Maryland, W&M, etc. do have a small number of full-pay/half-pay scholarships for top students. You should be able to find it on their websites. However those students would need to be competitive for Ivies.

The WGPA is obviously great, but perhaps he could raise his SAT score in the fall. SAT has become very inflated due to changes and a 1500 is not what it once was. Closer to a 1600 and he would have a lot of merit scholarship options, including from top publics and great SLACs.

Considering he's male, good SLACs i.e. within top 30 will provide merit scholarships as well.

UMD tuition is $10k/year though. It's highly unlikely that SLACs charging $60,000/year in tuition alone - more than many top privates - would get that low. 50% of total cost of attendance is more likely, which makes it closer to $30-35,000 per year.

Sorry if it wasn’t clear…SAT is 1560, and he doesn’t want to retake. Does this change anything? Also, which SLACs are you referring too (I don’t know much about LACs!)

His SAT is 1560 and he doesn't want to retake, which makes me think that you suggested he do so. If so, that tells me all I need to know about you.

Anonymous wrote:DS is trying to find strong schools that might offer merit as we don't want to pay much over the in-state price for UMD. UMD is a fantastic school, and he'll get in no problem, but I know he definitely wants to apply to some other good academic schools that might give merit. In terms of stats, from MCPS, not at W or Magnet, 1550+ SAT, 4.00 GPA, 4.85 WGPA, 10 APs completed by junior year, fairly strong ECs, probable National Merit Semifinalist, (will be) 4 year varsity athlete. Aside from Case Western and Northeastern, can anyone recommend strong academic schools that might offer merit? DS isn't interested in LACs and definitely not interested in any big southern schools like Bama, Ole Miss, UofSC, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying good colleges don't provide merit aid are simply wrong.

Publics like UVA, Michigan, Maryland, W&M, etc. do have a small number of full-pay/half-pay scholarships for top students. You should be able to find it on their websites. However those students would need to be competitive for Ivies.

The WGPA is obviously great, but perhaps he could raise his SAT score in the fall. SAT has become very inflated due to changes and a 1500 is not what it once was. Closer to a 1600 and he would have a lot of merit scholarship options, including from top publics and great SLACs.

Considering he's male, good SLACs i.e. within top 30 will provide merit scholarships as well.

UMD tuition is $10k/year though. It's highly unlikely that SLACs charging $60,000/year in tuition alone - more than many top privates - would get that low. 50% of total cost of attendance is more likely, which makes it closer to $30-35,000 per year.

Sorry if it wasn’t clear…SAT is 1560, and he doesn’t want to retake. Does this change anything? Also, which SLACs are you referring too (I don’t know much about LACs!)

Anonymous wrote:People saying good colleges don't provide merit aid are simply wrong.

Publics like UVA, Michigan, Maryland, W&M, etc. do have a small number of full-pay/half-pay scholarships for top students. You should be able to find it on their websites. However those students would need to be competitive for Ivies.

The WGPA is obviously great, but perhaps he could raise his SAT score in the fall. SAT has become very inflated due to changes and a 1500 is not what it once was. Closer to a 1600 and he would have a lot of merit scholarship options, including from top publics and great SLACs.

Considering he's male, good SLACs i.e. within top 30 will provide merit scholarships as well.

UMD tuition is $10k/year though. It's highly unlikely that SLACs charging $60,000/year in tuition alone - more than many top privates - would get that low. 50% of total cost of attendance is more likely, which makes it closer to $30-35,000 per year.