How much financial aid would Penn at University Park be offering me, bc of grades?

Colleges & Universities Penn State
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<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Background:
Indian (help or hurt…dunno)
PA resident

  • attended a school in the suburbs (outskirts of Philly)</p>

<p>Classes:
All classes have been AP when available, or honors
Just a brief overview:
Spanish 1-5, with Spanish 5 being my Senior Year
AP Euro - 10th (only one I could really take, unless I wanted to do something like AP Bio instead of my architecture elective)</p>

<p>AP US History (4) - 11th
AP Eng Lang & Comp (4) - 11th</p>

<p>Senior Year Lineup:
AP Calc
AP Psych
AP Physics
AP Eng Lit
Honors Spanish 5
Architectural Drafting</p>

<p>Grades: A’s since 9th grade, except a B+ in photography :confused: haha
Rank: 16/700, top 5%
GPA: 4.3 weighted (Gonna say like 3.8+ unweighted)
SAT: CR-680, M-630, W- 650 for a total of 1960 the second time around
taking physics, math 2, n spanish in oct, expecting scores at least over 600</p>

<p>EC’S:
Model UN- attended New York Conference
Environmental Action Club
S.A.D.D./S.A.V.E.
Neshaminy Cares (officer) - volunteering activities
Debate Team - placed 6/32 in Southeastern Pennsylvania Debate League in LD Debate
World Affairs (officer)
National Honor Society (hoping to join Spanish NHS)
Attended Girls State ( selected through school, for a week, americanism/government program)
Attended RYLA (selected through school + local rotary, leadership program for 3 days)
Red Cross Volunteer
Salvation Army Volunteer
MS Walk
March for Dimes (aka march for babies) fundraise
Tour de Cure (diabetes) day volunteer
Work: Panera Bread associate from Dec 2007-present</p>

<p>I want to major in psychology – Penn State is such a great school for psych undergrads to learn’s</p>

<p>If this looks familiar…Ialso posted something similar in CMU’s and Cornells college discussion</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your help !</p>

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<p>It all depends on the amount of funds the university has next year. They have some academic stuff that PSU gives out on the university level. Most colleges (in your case Lib Arts) will wait till you enter your major (jr year) before they start shellin out money for you. </p>

<p>You GPA and ECs look good enough to apply to the Schreyer Honors College. If accepted (very competitive) you are guaranteed at least the $3,500/year scholarship.</p>

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<p>Probably nothing freshman year. Depending on how well you do in your department and if you apply you may have a chance at something sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Hmm…looks like I’ll be researching the Schreyer Honors College. Sounds like I wont be getting any non-need based aid until later in the year then?</p>

<p>Also, this is random but does it help to have a brother who went to PSU?</p>

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<p>You may get non-need aid, I recieved several from the university my freshmen year. PSU has several grants and scholarships on the university level. Its all a matter of divying it out to the applicant pool every year.</p>