Do the scholarships suck as much as I think?

gbesq
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:00:32 +0000

Although I don’t agree with drusba that merit scholarships of $1,000-$3,000 are “typical” of public universities, I do agree that it’s not likely that you’re going to see significant merit money from a highly ranked public like UIUC because although your stats are very good, they are not exceptional for this school. My daughter attends Kansas State University and has stats that are similar to yours and she had exceptional ECs in high school. K-State gave her about half the total cost of attendance in merit scholarships, renewable for all four years. The difference is that statistically she was in about the top 5% of K-State’s applicant pool and was also from an entirely different region of the country, so they wanted her for diversity – that doesn’t seem to be the case with your situation. Have you thought about private schools? With your numbers, you would likely be in the running for significant merit aid.