Honors Colleges

ucbalumnus
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:44:41 +0000

It looks like this whole thread is ignoring the elephant in the room: money.

In a previous thread, you (the OP) mentioned parents are wealthy enough to disqualify need-based financial aid (even at Stanford), but the parents are only willing to contribute $12,500 (half the cost of in-state Wisconsin, putting it a few thousand dollars more than a reasonable expectation of student self-funding through loans and work earnings). This means that all of these out-of-state public schools will be financial reaches or out of reach if there are not any large enough (probably at least full tuition plus a few thousand) merit scholarships that you can get.

Better would be to make the application list from these lists:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-20.html (safeties)
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html (non-safeties)
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation-56.html (if National Merit)

Otherwise, you’ll be back here in April with a bunch of admission letters to colleges you cannot afford and wondering if there is another alternative besides going to the community college.