how to get full tuition scholarship + ?

mom2collegekids
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:53:18 +0000

The “stacking” situation will not occur often. Bama is the only school that I can think of that stacks its big NMF scholarship with an additional 2500 per year if you’re an engineering major.

Other schools usually don’t let you stack…they’ll often only let you take the “biggest” offer. Schools usually don’t stack so that they can “spread” the awards around to other students…and schools often feel that a free tuition scholarship is already quite big (often $140k just for tuition at a school like your example of Northeastern).

I think your son is going to be an engineering major, so for your son to get a stacked scholarship at the few schools that would allow a full tuition NMF scholarship to be further stacked, would likely depend on his SAT or ACT scores and GPA. Such additional stacking (if possible) would likely come from a dept scholarship, not the school.

That said, when my NMF son applied to various schools, he did target a few that gave NMF full tuition or more scholarships. Bama was the only one who offered a stacked scholarship.

It’s a good thing that you’re inquiring now, so that you know what’s out there. It’s not likely you’re going to find what it seems that you want…a full tuition NMF scholarship to a techie school that will then further give $10k more per year to cover room and board.

The problem is that those techie schools already have enough high stats kids so they don’t neet to hand out scholarships of $200k or more (which is what such stacked scholarships would cost).