Good Scholarship Chances

cptofthehouse
Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:34 +0000

Tufts, BC and HC give out very little to nothing in merit money. To get the awards, one has to be at the very top of the applicant pool. Yes, you are there in GPA, but honestly most merit awards focus heavily on test scores. The grades have to be good, but there is usually some slack in that area, but the test scores are what make the cuts most of the time. You can find out very close to what you can get from Fordham by playing around with the NPCs. Most of their awards are based on merit so you can see by changing your test score parameters, you award will change. I believe Fordham and NEU give out full scholarship awards fro NMFs. You should check out those schools that do offer that. My son’s school has a lot of kids getting accepted to Villanova, BC, GT, HC too, but getting large merit money is a whole other story. It is quite sobering to have to understand that even a $30K award just covers not even 1/2 the full cost of these big boys.

So without those test scores, it’s nearly impossible to come up with the likely schools for awards.

With good test scores, there are any number of Catholic schools, not just Jesuit ones that will come up with some good awards for you. I know Manhattan, Iona, St Joe’s, nearly all of the PA Catholic schools would certainly ante up some money. BC only has a very limited number of 1/2 tuition awards and those go to those kids they want the most, the kids they entice from the ivies from what I have seen. Do go for it, but understand they are highly selective.

So when you have some true test scores, you can come up with some schools that are good possibilities.