Full Ride or Great School

goldenbear2020
Fri, 04 Mar 2016 05:02:16 +0000

African-American (hook)

First-generation (hook)

Income < 65k (hook especially if applying through QuestBridge)

Likely NMF

Applying as CS major (where AAs are even more under-represented)

Your choices shouldn’t come down to UIUC for 120k vs. Bama for room/board/expenses. If I were you, I would definitely apply to 10-15 of the top 20-30 private universities and/or LACs, nearly all of which would give you pretty close to free tuition (and likely free tuition AND room/board at the most generous schools like HYPS) and end up much cheaper than UIUC.