Any schools that would give a full ride to me?

bigreddawgie · 09-01-2007, 10:45 PM

I am a rising senior at a competitive public school in Texas that sends many grads to top schools. I am Asian and Male.

Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.288 (should go up, i had a beastly junior year)
Class Rank: 13
Class Size: 1017
Top 2%

Good teacher recs
Hopefully i can write good essays

Scores:
Jan Test
Math: 740
Critical Reading: 700
Writing: 700, 9 essay
Total: 2140

March Test
Math: 800
Critical Reading: 630!!!
Writing: 770, 9 essay
Total: 2200

Subject tests:
Chemistry: 740
Bio- 740
Math 2- 760

ACT: composite 36
35 eng
36 math
36 reading
36 science
8 essay (combined eng/writing 31)

12 APs by the time I graduate
Junior year schedule: AP bio, precal h, medical science, eng 3 ap, french 4 ap, apush
Senior year: AP physics b, eng 4 ap, ap macroeconomics/ap gov, french 5 ap, ap calc bc, ap stats, ap comp sci

Extracurriculars:

play table tennis competitively
founder/pres of red cross club
VP of Students organizing community outreach
vp of table tennis club (co prez next year)
historian for habitat for humanity
nhs
key club
french national honor society
hosa- teachers were lazy this year.. didnt do anything
mu alpha theta- several math competitions
Texas state french symposium- school got 8th in state. i placed 6th in a category.
several local table tennis awards
national french contest- top 10% in nation
over 200+ volunteer hours
active member at the local buddhist temple
volunteer with mentally disabled kids
Hopspital internship for a month
volunteer once a week at another hospital
dropped orch after 10th for medical science, but in a small orch group still
commended for psat score

are there any good schools that will give me a full ride? im going to be a premed but i dont kno what ill major in yet.

jfs4691 · 09-01-2007, 10:46 PM

what? why is this in the parent forum? lol

bigreddawgie · 09-01-2007, 11:06 PM

i need advice from parents!! thats why haha

bigreddawgie · 09-01-2007, 11:07 PM

plus i think i asked a similar ques somewhere else and they told me to come here

midmo · 09-02-2007, 01:00 AM

The financial aid forum has threads highlighted at the top of the page that discuss a lot of full tuition merit scholarships. There aren't too many at really top schools, and there are very few true full-rides anywhere that are not partially need-based. (A few are based on national merit finalist status)

Do you have any schools in mind? 12 APs and a 36 ACT might well put you in range at some good schools.

I suggest you first check the scholarship threads, then return here with a more specific question.

Just a couple of general thoughts:

1. full rides (covering room and board and maybe cost of books as well as tuition) are rare; full tuition or full tuition and fees is more common, but still hard to get.

2. Landing one of the large merit awards involves a bit of luck. Perhaps a school is looking for someone with your particular set of ECs one year, but the next year they want something different, etc. So if you are really on the search for a merit award, you should be prepared to send out a lot of applications. Check requirements carefully, as some require supplemental essays and/or references. Deadlines might be early.

3. Just to get you started, some high-ranked universities that do offer merit awards include Washington Univ, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, Univ. of Chicago, Carnegie-Mellon. Check the threads for many more suggestions, including some publics.

oldfort · 09-02-2007, 07:17 AM

Trinity College in Hartford offers Presidential scholarship for full tuition, and claims to have 100% medical school placement. Duke also offers merit scholarship, but obviously is very competitive. As midmo said most schools offer need-based (all ivies).

cloverdale7 · 09-02-2007, 07:55 AM

My older son ended up going to Brown but was offered a full ride --including books and travel stipend-- at SUNY Buffalo. His stats were not unlike yours, except that his SAT scores were higher, APs fewer, and ECs much more limited (in number) but more highly focused. All in all, equivalent. Despite this, the SUNY Buffalo offer was the only full-ride MERIT scholarship he was offered. Other schools offered half merit and half need-based aid so that his education would have been covered for him without any loans--but as to full ride, those are tough to get, I believe. We DID consider the Buffalo offer --it would have left him 100% debt-free. Brown has not done that.

cathymee · 09-02-2007, 08:22 AM

bigred
there are a number of Texas kids like you who are attending U South Carolina after having applied for and won the McNair scholarship for out of state students. Its a true full coverage scholarship but involves a separate application and interview process.Take a look at it on their website. S is a soph recipient from NY but personally knows 2 Texas kids who are freshman this year.
U North Carolina offers some amazing opportunities as well (look up Moorehead there)