R.E. Prairie View:
Award availability is limited and is awarded based upon admission date and competitiveness.
From University Scholarships - Office of Scholarship Services
Tuskegee is another option
Note that Tuskegee and Troy are HBCUs
Troy is not an HBCU. Itās an Alabama public that per the last CDS - was 53% white.
Iād compare it to schools like Marshall, Coastal Carolina, Ga Southern, W Carolina, etc
Prairie View is an HBCU.
In the end, OP has no money one can go for things like Stamps and will 99.9% chance strike out or can go for what appear to be sure things.
Itās kind of like - do you want to go to college or not. If you do, these are your choices.
Of course OP doesnāt have a test yet.
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Letās be real: OP is attending a competitive-entry STEM magnet in the DMV - sheās not attending Prairie View or Troy when she has better options nearby - colleges where the average SAT is about 1000-1100 vs one of the best community colleges in the country or excellent public universities - especially if all else fails and none of the MD public universities are affordable, they may attend Montgomery College with a merit scholarship or with a county grant. (As of now, OP qualifies for Montgomery collegeās Honors and the CC a definite safety.)
Just a few examples.
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And then where are they going year 3-4 for free.
What if OP says no to community college ?
I am being real.
How do we know what they qualify for - they are upper middle class - per the student.
They may not attend the free four year but then they are just kicking the can down the road two years.
And yes those free four years have costs - transportation etc.
The point being - itās providing a range of options - as are you. OP should know possible options.
Does med school and community college mix ? Itās possible but is it realistic ? Potentially another concern.
And we have no idea yet how OP will test.
We do - to get into that STEM magnet, OP had to be among the top 5% test takers, though with that GPA top 1% is more likely.
Youāre right that getting into one commutable 4-year college with free tuition may not be a certainty not to mention earning a Hail Mary full ride is a lottery but I simply canāt imagine this student travelling across the country to attend Troy or Prairie View.
Hopefully OP can return and provide details wrt financial situation and what colleges are commutable.
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Most OOs and private colleges accept based on region, not on particular school. Acceptance rates from magnet schools tend to be higher than from other high schools, since the AOs are more likely to have heard about these schools.
What possibly happens is that far fewer kids apply to these universities from non-magnet publics. So if a class of 700 has only 7 students applying to U Michigan, the fact that all 7 were rejected wonāt be a major point of discussion among students, and more importantly, parents. However, if 120 from a class of 600 were applying, the fact that only 20 were accepted would create the impression that U Michigan did not like accepting students from that magnet high school, especially if that stateās flagship was accepting 70% of the applicants from that magnet school. Since the students and parents are all talking about this acceptance rate, the impression becomes part of the school lore.
Also, people tend to make snap calculations, and often assume that "since 80% of my kidās friends (or my friendsā kids) are applying, that means that most of the graduating students from my kidās school are applying. For example, most of my kidās friends (and most of my friendsā kids who attended that high school) applied to the state flagship. I was, however, really surprised to find that only around 20%-25% of their graduating class actually applies to this university.
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My nephews all attended UMBC. 2 started at the CC and transferred in. Donāt know if they got the transfer scholarship but funds were probably a consideration for them.
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You are not correct. We have actual experience, not hypothetical one. I had a kid in the same magnet. Kids were heartbroken when out of 50 only 1 was accepted to Umich and 49 waitlisted. No college can accept kids only from the same magnet program. They indeed do it by region but when you have all top 50 kids from the same school, they take 1-2 from this school and then 1-2 from another etc.
For reference. SAT will not be a problem for this kid. Prediction is 1560 or higher. Kid will not be NMF due to very high cut off in our area.
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Do you mean to say that they are all HWCUs?
I mean to say they are in a similar realm - ie athletic conference / mid size regional, alternative schools to the flagships.
Most schools are historically white so no I was not making that comparison.