@blackspiderman At least try Arizona. Unaffordable schools will not be feasible either. What schools did you apply to? Did you run the NPC on them? Maybe look at the University of Toledo also.
I doubt Minnesota will be affordable. You are looking for a large amount of aid. These OOS publics will NOT be affordable with a few high merit exceptions.
As a woman, you would have pretty good chance at some top engineering schools, and it includes Cornell Engineering.
Err… Sybylla.<<<<
Err Myos, OP is looking at CS, there is no great OOS money from UMTC for those stats and CS just drives it higher. When did OP become a URM?
This thread has totally derailed. OP has a 32 ACT is an ORM looking at CS. If you find a unicorn out there with free money, LMK. Women in CS is not a hook. Or engineering.
She is not an URM. We just assumed because of her SN.
Doh! Okay - that is an error. but do not compound it. Just tell them that you will not barrow a lot of money. Apply tot eh state school. Best of luck!
Would you consider a woman’s college? Both Smith and Mt. Holyoke have computer science…
I still stand by my list even as a southeast Asian, OP does not need to apply to the usual suspects. She should definitely toss an application at the woman colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Scripps and Mount Holyoke. All are consortium schools.
Can OP cover R&B? These schools are going to give the OP a full tuition scholarship? If her EFC from MW is 27K, what does that look like at the other schools in question?
@Sybylla Honestly if it’s this much trouble, might as well go to community college.
You need to work out what your affordable instate options are, if you cannot cover room and board you need a commutable option. It is almost xmas, deadlines are flying by.
^Nothing wrong starting at a CC. Work summers and after school to save money.
Consider applying to the Chancellor’s Scholarship for full resident or non-resident tuition at UW-Madison.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible for the Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp Scholarship Programs, applicants must:
4.2 w doesn’t tell much. If some want to chance OP, you’d need more info. It’s not possible to do for highly/most competitive colleges with just that and SAT/ACT scores. And she’s only now taking AP physics and calc AB, related to the major. So you’d need those grades. No one knows what ECs, if any relate to stem.
Yes, she needs to run NPCs on additional colleges. But the right ones.
Wondering what the NPC showed for Purdue.
Plus, “South Asian” is what she said. You’d need clarification if she meant “Southeast.”
Did you apply to the CS BA at UMN TC - because that’s where your odds are best for getting a scholarship. (Both a freshman scholarship and the CLA scholarships stacked onto it.)
You’re not ORM in the Midwest BTW.
Are you from Cambodia, Laos, etc?
I wouldn’t advise cc in Illinois (dreadful budget cuts) when you can apply to colleges such as Barnard, Smith, or Mount Holyoke, as well as Dickinson, Grinnell, or St Lawrence.
Do you have geographical constraints (IE., your parents don’t want you further away than 6 hours driving?)
Cornell Coe becomes harder but CALS UX remains in play as a reach.
Have you applied to St Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, Grinnell, Beloit, Lawrence already? All of these are top colleges in the Midwest (where you will be considered URM).
You have a low efc - you need to target colleges that will meet need and be affordable.
@lookingforward @Madison85 I am planning to apply for that scholarship. You don’t have to be Southeast Asian. You just have to be one of those things, and since I’m socioeconomically disadvantaged I believe I can apply to it.
But you cannot put all your eggs in that particular basket. You need to apply widely you have three weeks to a month (depending on application deadlines).
@MYOS1634 I did apply CS BA at UMN TC. I think our local community college is pretty good. My brother went there, and he was able to successfully transfer, and even have money left over from his financial aid. I think if UMN TC doesn’t work out I’ll just go the CC route. I just don’t have time to apply to many of the colleges you listed because I’d have to request recommendations and transcripts again and those won’t be done or sent in time.
What’s about University of New Mexico?
@WayOutWestMom what scholarships would this student possible be eligible for?
The net cost for this applicant at Wisconsin is $27,000. That says NOTHING with regards to the net costs at schools that will meet full need. Isn’t this student partially Pell eligible? If so, the net costs at these generous schools could be far lower!
@blackspiderman are either of your parents self employed?
Go talk to your school counselor today…or tomorrow. Those recommendations have been done on their computers…it won’t take the counselors a lot of time to upload them to your common application for new schools. Or to college specific applications.
They will understand that you didn’t realize the cost implications…and you need some different options.
@thumper1 I didn’t have to submit a counselor recommendation for any of my applications, they were teacher recommendations, and I don’t have an easy way to contact that teacher.