3rd party scholarships ... realistic?

HankCT
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 15:28:09 +0000

@taverngirl When she was looking at colleges, she liked the larger schools with more facilities, more kids. We applied to Seton Hall, which is a private and has the same A- niche rating as Allegheny. They gave her 21K per year in merit, but this still puts the price at 36K per year after merit, which is still 8k per year more than Uconn. Clark gave 15k in merit, putting the cost around 41k per year.

We also applied to SUNY Buffalo and Binghamton since they are 40K per year FULL PRICE with no merit, which is cheaper than any other state schools, and she got 5k per year merit from Binghamton. Buffalo may match. But essentially it seems that all the options come in around 35-40k per year. I have to think our extremely high (and unwarranted) EFC is making us appealing to private schools, but as potential big payers, not so much as a student. Her UW GPA at 3.2 (taking AP/Honors/ECE) which our school only weights to about a 3.5, probably hampers our numbers a bit.

In some ways I wish I had more time to apply to some of the privates at this stage, but it’s March now.