Better chance at scholarships in CoE or LSA?

billcsho
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 01:53:19 +0000

It is hard to say. Proportionally, I think the number of Engineering Scholarship of Honor per student is higher than LSA. However, there are 2 levels for the main LSA scholarships at $5000 and $10000/yr for in-state students. In CoE, it is $8000/yr. So it may be slightly easier to get the LSA scholarship than the Engineering Scholarship of Honor with the same stat but the amount may be more or less than CoE.
Since your son is in the second semester of junior already, he should have a real SAT score soon if not already. The test score is very important for merit scholarships although by itself it is not sufficient. He should aim at 1580+/35+.while maintaining his GPA at 4.0. Nevertheless, I know a boy with 4.0/36 but did not receive the CoE scholarship 5 years ago. On the other hand, my D got it with 4.0/35 the year later. It may be due to gender bias and/or ECs.