Hispanic Student Working Full Time and High School

Applying to College Hispanic Students
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<p>fighter,
I think you will do well as long as you develop a realistic list that includes IS options, schools with guaranteed and ‘good shot’ merit aid, as well as colleges with strong need based FA for low income students. </p>

<p>You should also check out your eligibility for Questbridge and the large outside need based scholarships like the Gates; check out both of these on the subforums of the FA & Scholarship forum. Finally, the Resources sticky thread on this forum has listings for outside scholarships for Hispanic students.</p>

<p>One concern I do have is how your income (and savings) from working may affect your need based FA since students are assessed at a higher rate than are parents. You should definitely start running some FA estimators. </p>

<p>How did you do on the PSAT? If you qualified, see the NHRP scholarship thread on this forum and post #453 on this NM thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation-31.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation-31.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;