Can I get into UIUC?

MerryLee
Tue, 24 May 2016 18:49:06 +0000

@jlee50 . Sometimes you can get a “better deal” at private colleges/universities. Same logic as looking at Illinois State Univ. If your stats are better than middle 50%, you have increased your odds of academic aid. Need based aid is different. There is a federal loan (you pay back), grants (you don’t pay back), local/community/college scholarships that you don’t pay back but there might be “strings attached”. Like taking certain classes or major. A friend’s daughter got a scholarship from her college because nobody in her family had graduated from college. She had to attend some workshops her freshman year but it was worth it.

Some colleges/universities offer a NPC (net price calculator) to get an idea of what the family contribution would be.

You might want to think about what you want from a college/university experience. Like… since you play HS football, are you wanting to go to school that has a football team so you can go watch the games? Or watching any school sports be ok? Size of university? Look at your hs size. Do you want smaller, bigger, roughly same size student body. Be careful when looking at student #'s. Somebody taking 1 class is a student. Also on-line classes can add to that number. Physical size of campus. How far away from home? Lots of things to consider.

There are lots of college search websites to get info. College Confidential, College navigator (US gov), your guidance office, plus individual university websites.