Full scholarship help?

Applying to College
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<p>My parents don’t want me to go far from home, but maybe they will if I get a full scholarship from a school. Are there any good science or engineering colleges that would be likely to offer me much academic scholarship money?</p>

<p>Info: female HS junior at catholic school
GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.36 weighted. School doesn’t calculate class rank.
ACT: 32, 33 superscore
AP: 5 on APUSH; currently in chem, comp, psych; will take calc, bio, lit
Honors Classes: bio, composition, geometry, algebra II, trig/precalc, american lit, spanish, chemistry, physics
Athletics: 2 year freshman/jv volleyball, 4 year varsity tennis
Extra: 2.5 years working at a vets office, .5 years at a dog grooming place, 5 years babysitting, 1 year (current year) in debate club, 2 years in NHS, 1 year in habitat for humanity, roughly 50ish hours of community service through youth soccer program and tutoring</p>

<p>What do you recommend I do to increase my chances?</p>

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<p>There are several good threads on this topic. Start with:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You also should read through these two older threads. The scholarships mentioned may no longer exist, but the research strategies discussed are unbeatable:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/148852-what-ive-learned-about-full-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/148852-what-ive-learned-about-full-ride-scholarships.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You will find more information on this topic in the Financial Aid Forum.</p>

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<p>did you take the PSAT? if so, did you score above your states cut off for NMF’s?Take a look at this thread which lists schools with generous scholarship programs- scroll to the end to get the most recent info.
[National</a> Merit Scholarships - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/]National”>National Merit Scholarships - College Confidential Forums)
there are other threads in the Financial Aid/ Scholarships forum to check into.
One college that has a very generous scholarship program for top students is USC. Over 500 top students receive 1/2 tuition scholarships there and another 140 receive full tuition scholarships. They have a great engineering program and very strong science programs.
[University</a> of Southern California](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/]University”>http://www.usc.edu/)</p>