Chance/Match me Aerospace or Mechanical, Good to very good school, IL resident, 3.98 GPA, 35 ACT, 1540 SAT, NMSF

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@yikkblue

When you ran the NPC for Texas A&M, the calculator did not account for the fact that an OOS NMF is guaranteed non-resident tuition waiver plus 10.5k per year (see link, 3rd paragraph below the NMF table). Thus, the COA is only around 22k. You can get this number by looking up the COA for a Texas resident (which an OOS NMF effectively is) studying engineering (which costs slightly more than other majors) and subtracting 10.5k from the result. In addition to the waiver, starting Fall 2025, an NMF (actually NMSF suffices) is not required to go through an entry-to-a-major (ETAM) process that sometimes scares students/families away (see link). So there is a lot to like about Texas A&M.

THANK YOU! Yes, I got it from the list of NMF-aligned scholarships but have been unable to quantify it until now. It has a good engineering program, including aerospace, and has a name recognition too. I do understand that it’s a smaller school in a smaller town, so might be not for everybody, so I’ll advise my son to take a trip and see if it’s something he’ll like.

@yikkblue

I’m not sure if Georgia Tech does in general, but you want to be careful with what their NPC result actually says.

That’s unfortunate. He really liked the campus, including the fact that it’s in the city, and it’s a very good school with good connections in various industries. Oh well, you can’t have everything.