<p>Hi, I am an international freshman in Rutgers. Being a late applicant for 2008 fall semester admission, I was not offered any scholarship. (I am a permanent resident, but I call myself international because I’ve never been to US before 2008 fall)</p>
<p>So now I need to join some kind of community service and club, which I have no idea where and what kind of club would be good to applying scholarship.</p>
<p>Do financial aid office still look at SAT? My grade for the fall semester are as follow</p>
<p>Calc I : A
Gen chem for engineers : A
General Psychology: A
Analytical Physics I:A
EADI: B+</p>
<p>weighted GPA: 3.875</p>
<p>One last question, for the scholarships that are offered to first year student, are these scholarships offered to 2nd/3rd/4th year students who didn’t get it in the first place?</p>
<p>As far as I know, there are very few scholarships for transfer students/continuing students. </p>
<p>I don’t think financial aid looks at your SAT scores, but I may be wrong.</p>
<p>Clubs… just do what you enjoy. Honestly there are a lot of really smart people competing for very few scholarships; I doubt you could just say that this one activity or club got them the scholarship. It’s supposedly about being “well rounded” and such.</p>
<p>sorry, I definitely made my question unclear.</p>
<p>What I meant a club that sounds good in applying a scholarship, should as well be one that I enjoy. The question should be " is there any good club to join for a science student doing dual degree program in electrical engineering and physics". Because I don’t really find useful information in getinvolved.rutgers.edu</p>
<p>So, rutgers is not going to offer what they offer to first year student (for 4 years) to the continuing student who don’t get the scholarship in first place, even if those students perform as well as the students who got the first year scholarship?</p>
<p>that doesn’t make any sense. you can’t compare the accomplishments of an upperclassmen to those of a high school senior. The first-year scholarships are based on rank and SAT only (and a little bit of the essay). and the scholarships act as incentives to lure high school seniors to come to rutgers. why do they need to give students who already go here incentives to go here?</p>
<p>and I doubt that your late application had anything to do with not getting any scholarships, I’m sorry. I know tons of kids who applied late and are still getting hefty sums of money. </p>
<p>No financial aid is need-based aid. the fa committee doesn’t care about sats or gpa. </p>
<p>and I thought you were looking to do some community service; I don’t really know how an engineering student can do engineering/physics-specific community service. Build robots for needy children? </p>
<p>Have you looked into the aresty summer programs that we’ve gotten emails about? it’s for math/science people and they give you a $3000 grant to do research. check your inbox.</p>
<p>"I know tons of kids who applied late and are still getting hefty sums of money. "</p>
<p>They are simply not late enough, it’s clearly stated in Rutgers’s admission website.</p>
<p>I am NOT comparing upperclassmen to those high school senior. I am ONLY comparing 2nd/3rd/4th year and their counterpart, those who receive the first year scholarship.</p>
<p>I am NOT looking for a physics/engineering COMMUNITY SERVICES, I am looking for a CLUB that is engineering/physics related</p>
<p>how does being accepted from regular rolling decision in may sound to you? it sounds pretty late to me. </p>
<p>and by upperclassmen, I meant just that–second years and beyond. Also how are high school students the counterparts to college students? They don’t take any of the same classes, work-load or difficulty-wise as far as educational methods go. </p>
<p>And you didn’t address my point about how scholarships act as incentives for good students to come to this state college. Money was 90% of the motivation for most of my friends to come here, and myself as well. Most colleges don’t offer scholarships for non-first years who excel academically, because that’s the expectation and that just would not be plausible, especially for a state university that is experiencing major budget cuts. then you might ask yourself, what’s the incentive to do well in school if you don’t get anything out of it directly from the university? as in you don’t have to apply for scholarships, they’re just giving them to you like they do with first-years. and if you want me to get into that, I will.</p>
<p>There are tons of scholarship opportunities that are not given directly from the rutgers adcom or whoever picks who gets scholarships. they’re given through alumni associations, clubs, organizations and the like.</p>
<p>and I assumed that you were looking for community service clubs from the subject of your thread. I’m sorry i assumed that was what you were looking for when I clicked on your post explicitly asking for community service clubs.</p>
<p>and did you go to any of the involvement fairs? that’s pretty much how I found all the organizations I am a part of right now. also aresty sounds pretty good for you. did you look it up? because the application was due today, three hours ago.</p>
<p>Let me clarify what I meant counterparts. I was comparing , for example, 2nd year(who received the first-year scholarship) to 2nd year (who didn’t receive the first-year scholarship).</p>
<p>Anyway, you convinced me that, at least, the first-year scholarship from Rutgers are meant to be incentives rather than awarding students based on their academic standing in university.</p>
<p>I have considered aresty but it turns out that I am not qualify for the physics courses completion requirement. Physics 203-204 include electricity and magnetism, plus basic quantum and relativity, which I will not have completed after 2009 spring. It’s likely that I will apply for that in the second year.</p>