Regent Scholars get special perks–special honors housing, access to individual mentoring, priority registration, honors seminars. Plus they get special recognition at graduation.
Less competitive than some of the schools you’re considering. It might be worth throwing in a Regent’s application.
thank you!! I will be considering UNM for the Amigo scholarship. The Regents’ scholarship sounds nice but I don’t think I’d be able to raise my GPA to a 3.9.
Hi, I have a list of considered safeties that aren’t finalized obviously. Some are listed twice because they have automatic and competitive merit so that’ll be marked with a *. And not factoring in any need because parents won’t work that out with me at this time.
automatic merit (COA is before scholarship)
UNM (Amigo- $22,919 per year, plus a $200 per year stipend*) & other possible general scholarships; COA: $53,445/yr
Central Michigan University (Freshmen Merit: $6,750); COA: $31,658/yr
U of L ($21,000/year: Borders without Benefits) or (Metropolitan College: Full Tuition & Residence → but i need to work with UPS); COA: $42,932/yr
Eastern Michigan University (The Presidential Scholarship: full tuition and room and board for four years- 3.5 GPA & 25+ ACT/1200+ SAT)
*Central Michigan University (Centralis Scholar Award: Covers 100% of tuition and fees (up to 33 credits per academic year), housing and food, $250/semester book allowance and $5,000 to study away-3.7+ GPA)
*UA: Possible Competitive Admissions Scholarship (6K-tuition); COA: $57,014
U of Montevallo: (Montevallo Ambassador Program Scholarship (M.A.P.S.): 12 total; cost of room, board, tuition, and fees; 30 ACT or 1360 SAT and 3.5 GPA with a resume, two letters of recommendation and application*)
Montevallo - nice find but you want city and pre med if I recall. It’s small, local, and near little. You had Pitt. UAB would be much wiser. Like Pitt it’s a medical powerhouse. UAH (not Bama) will not have the diversity you seek but UAH is in city and Bama is near 60% OOS so there are diversity positives.
If you’re looking more broadly than what you mentioned as your previous desires, then you may want to consider U. of Louisiana - Lafayette. You would qualify for the Live Oak scholarship which would cover room & board, part of tuition, and offer you an on-campus job. @2plustrio’s son also qualified for the scholarship, and I believe the final cost was going to be about $7-8k/year. Lafayette has a population of about 120k, so not a major city, but it’s definitely civilization.
Another option would be Louisiana Tech where you would qualify for in-state price plus either a $9k or $9500/year scholarship (depending on whether you can get your GPA above a 3.75 or not). That would bring costs to about $11k/year. Ruston’s a much smaller town, with about 22k people.
Both of these options would be automatic (assuming that they keep the same standards/approximate costs for next year). But I suspect that U. of Louisville might be a better fit than either of these based on what you initially said you wanted. In case they’re of interest, though, I thought I would share these.
Thanks! I will look into these schools more! I might consider U of Louisiana as it might be better fit than Louisiana Tech and my stats are assured. My stats also work for the “Out-of-State Fee Waiver” which is $68,640* ($6,864 per semester for 10 semesters) though I’m not super clear on what that means.
Also if I were to ED to Tulane, would I have a good chance considering they take most of their applicants from the ed pool and i have their average stats?
Tulane doesn’t guarantee to meet need. You better run the NPC.
Your issue isn’t Tulane vs Northwestern vs wherever.
Your issue is - will they get to your price point - hence the need to run the NPC. ED is binding.
Numerically you may be ok for Tulane but they reject kids that get into more selective schools and admit some you wouldn’t think.
It’s more ‘likely’ than NU. Have you been ? My daughter, for example, found it run down but a friend who lives there said they are building and freshening.
As an aside, check neighboring Loyola - run their NPC. You can cross register.
If Tulane’s NPC hits your price and it’s truly your #1 choice, it’s a reach but reasonable.
For those who haven’t been on Tulane’s campus in recent years, they may not know that there are several new dorms, including two just completed within the last year and a half.
Please visit, @springbreakers and form your own opinion. Outdated opinions can be misleading.
Also, don’t know if this applies to you, but take a look:
Tulane’s No Loan Assistance Scholarship (NOLA)
Full-time entering fall freshmen showing parental adjusted gross income (AGI on the custodial parents’ federal tax return used for need analysis) being equal to or less than $75,000 will be reviewed for Tulane’s No Loan Assistance (NOLA) if the aid applications (including both the FAFSA and CSS Profile) are submitted to be processed by the February 15th preceding entry. Tulane’s NOLA scholarship will be added if gift aid* plus Tulane’s Institutional Methodology Expected Family Contribution (IM EFC)** does not total at least the tuition, fee, transportation and book components of the student’s standard Cost of Attendance (COA), in an amount to make up the difference; however, final determination of eligibility for Tulane’s NOLA program will adhere to the same merit threshold and general requirements established for receipt of need-based Tulane Scholarship.
And be aware that, with the exception of a couple very narrow exceptions, there is now a requirement that all students live on campus their first 3 years. This can be a positive or negative depending on your views on such things.
The Freshman dorms are still - and expected to continue to be - the older buildings with the communal bathrooms. Years 2+ options open up.
An excellent suggestion but keep in mind the last component of that paragraph. If the income is less than $75K the first year but then goes beyond it for the second year you might fall outside the program. There’s a thread going on in the parents facebook page right now about how generous they thought Tulane was for the first year only to see aid decrease year over year. Like a lot of social media posts I suspect there’s underlying reasons why aid was decreased (income/assets) that was selectively absent from the details.
Tulane wants students who are excited to attend Tulane. Demonstrated interest is really important to Tulane, and ED is one of the biggest ways someone can demonstrate interest.
That said, however, ED is binding. I only believe in EDing to a school if it is your clear first choice, the NPC comes back as affordable for the family, and there is no desire to see what other offers may be received from other schools. Additionally, if it’s financially feasible for a family, a student should also visit while the school is in-session. If Tulane meets those criteria, then I think it would be a reasonable ED choice.
Since you mentioned earlier on that there have been some mental health difficulties and that proximity to family was an important consideration, how close would your nearest family members be to New Orleans or Lafayette?
NOLA and Tulane have had issues with outside investors buying up houses and reconfiguring the space to make it supposedly more desirable for renters but it is having a deleterious effect on the overall housing market.
Yes - though as I understand it from talking to people in the area it’s been an issue for a couple of decades and “just now” getting resolved in the past couple of years and they build more capacity. The goal being to get/keep more students on campus. It’s going to be interesting next year to see what happens to rental rates in the area as there should be a couple thousand rooms that are now being pulled out of the surrounding area.
The new dorms are not some of the more extravagant apartment living type arrangements that many other Universities have been building. The new buildings are suites with a bathroom being shared by rooms on either side of it - those rooms could be singles or doubles (so anywhere from 2-4 students sharing a bathroom). And of course being new buildings they’ll have updated common spaces, cafe’s, etc.
The current Tulane’s R&B rates are on the high side but pretty competitive to what you’ll find for leases.
The new dorms sound quite nice. Some of the off-campus housing was pretty challenging, to say the least. I used to rate my son‘s off campus housing by “could I live here?“ The first year was a definite, NO!
If you get accepted, UC’s will cost you $70k++/year so keep that in mind as you decide on your application list. Here is a post about calculating the GPA.
My family and I were thinking about me finishing high school in California so I would move there maybe in the summer that way I’d be there for longer than 366 days? Though the process does seem like a lot.
If you will be a FAFSA-dependent student (most college students under the age of 24 who are not married and not military service members or veterans), then you need a parent to establish tuition residency in California as well.
