Financial Aid!plzzz reply!!!

mom2collegekids
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Again, at this point, it’s hard to know for sure which schools won’t be changing their merit scholarships (with the economy, it’s hard to know what changes will come. )

But, right now…

You’d likely get full tuition (with your M+CR score) as an int’l to the following schools…

LSU
Auburn
Alabama
maybe UMiami (I think they do give int’ls merit scholarships)
Tulane might give you a 50% scholarship, but they also have a high COA and only offer a few engineering programs.
Miss St. (but that might be too deep south for you.)
U Indiana might give you some merit, but not a full tuition scholarship
St Louis U - might give half scholarship
DePaul might give you some, not sure what their current policy is on int’ls, but they are trying to be more diverse.

Seton Hall might give you a generous scholarship (but I don’t know how much).
UIowa (not sure of its int’l rules)
Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles is generous to int’ls with high stats.
USC (I’m not sure what the do with int’ls but they do have good merit - but you’d need to raise your scores a bit - but you have time to do that. :)

I will have to do some more thinking…I’m sure that there are others…possibly Clemson, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech might give you good merit. Since you have $20k per year for a budget, you don’t need a full tuition - altho that would be nice. :)

Again, take both the SAT and ACT. Many kids do better on one than the other (and I mean a LOT better - some score in the 99th percentile on one and only the 95th -or lower - on the other.) Schools will accept whichever is higher.

BTW…since you’re only a junior, do take the ACT and SAT again. Schools will take your highest score, so you may increase your score and increase your choices of schools.