<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>ASU
Penn State
University of Texas
University of Colorado
Louisiana State</p>
<p>Well, then…any of the big state schools that aren’t ranked too high. </p>
<p>I would add…</p>
<p>Purdue
Alabama
Auburn
Texas Tech
Clemson</p>
<p>Remember, state schools are not going to give you aid. </p>
<p>I don’t really know what to tell you since you seem to be at cross purposes. You want to go to a big public, yet you’re OOS for all and your dad hasn’t said that he’ll pay all of your expenses (about $35k-50k) per year. </p>
<p>Would you please ask your dad how much he’s willing to pay each year? Otherwise this all may be a waste of time.</p>
<p>thesushi,
I would recommend contacting any of your prospective schools and seeing if their admissions department will calculate your current GPA for you based off an unofficial transcript (that way it doesn’t go into their system as an official GPA for you) so you will have a better idea of what your chances are. If you want, I would be willing to do this for you, just send me a message about it. If your GPA comes out to be about a 3.0, most of the state flagships are within reach for admissions, but as mom2 has said, any significant amount of merit aid is out of the question. Your SAT is fine at a 1240 (many schools don’t consider the SAT writing section yet, but this will vary from school to school), but it won’t put you in range for any sort of merit aid either. This may make it difficult, since you will be paying out of state tuition at any of your choices, and that can get rather expensive. Since you’re a citizen, if you go to school in the US, you should probably look into the possibility of getting reclassified as a resident of the state you end up attending school in and see if it’s possible for you to become a resident by your sophomore year. That way you’re only paying for one year at OOS rates. (This may not be possible, but some states/schools are more lenient on how you establish residency than others.) With your current stats, U Texas, Ohio State, and U Arizona may be difficult for you. You appear to have some preference for the southern region of the US, so just draw a little box around a region of the US you’re interested in and check out the schools, state by state. I wouldn’t feel right offering suggestions, but I do wish you luck in your search.
-Matt</p>
<p>Whats your class rank?</p>
<p>If youre interested in merit-based scholarships, you should strongly consider taking the ACT. Many of the schools that offer guaranteed merit based scholarships are southern schools that go primarily off the ACT.</p>
<p>Now might be a good time to figure out your actual GPA as well.</p>
<p>Southern schools use both the ACT and SAT for scholarships.</p>
<p>But the problem is going to be her GPA. Few give any kind of decent scholarships for a GPA under 3.5.</p>
<p>See at the moment my dad has agreed to pay full price. So i’m not too worried about aid. Maybe FAFSA will help?</p>
<p>Also, which states allow me to become a resident and let me pay in-state? Is there a list or some website you could link me to?</p>
<p>Good to hear that your dad will full pay. FAFSA won’t help because your family’s income is too high. You’d have to be rather low income for you to get any federal free money. </p>
<p>You probably can’t become a resident because your parents will be supporting you while you’re here. </p>
<p>Your residency is based on where your parents live until you’re 24, since they’re supporting you. You can’t claim to be a state resident, when your costs are being paid by your parents who live elsewhere…</p>
<p>So, is your dad willing to pay the full OOS costs? $35k-50k per year?</p>
<p>At the moment yes. But i mean i was just looking at Texas Tech and OOS tuition is only 13k. Plus 8k for room and board. That’s only 21k per year?</p>
<p>Doesn’t that work out really well?</p>
<p>BTW I AM A MALE!! 
Sorry for not mentioning this :P</p>
<p>BTW this is my list</p>
<p>Texas
U of Washington
U of Illinois
Penn State
Indiana U
Ohio State
Louisiana State
Michigan State
U of Colorado
Texas tech
U of Arizona
ASU
U of Oregon</p>
<p>If your family isn’t willing to provide any financial information (don’t know if this is true) I’m not sure if this would effect your eligibility for merit aid at an oos school. That is something your GC could answer.</p>
<p>Try taking the ACT. It is a different test and may favor your strengths. You may statistically do much better as indicated by your math score.</p>
<p>Both Auburn and Alabama give good merit aid for oos students. Your SAT or ACT would need to come up, but don’t sweat it. Some preparation with the Big Blue Book on critical reading can do wonders for that score.</p>
<p>First, I would find out if you are even eligible for these types for award w/o financial disclosure.</p>
<p>Where are you seeing that Texas Tech OOS tuition is $13k per year? Are you not including all of TT’s fees? </p>
<p>It’s about $18,000 per year for the year 2010 -2011 for non-residents for tuition/fees.</p>
<p>So, since costs go up every year…</p>
<p>Tuition/fees $19,000
room/board…$ 9,000
books…$1,100
personal…$1,500</p>
<h2>travel…$2,000 (since you’re from India, this may be higher)</h2>
<p>COA…about $33,000</p>
<p>Schools list their costs differently so it’s important for students/parents to understand what the sticker includes. Some are tuition, room & board. Some do break out additional expenses as shown above. Some show fees by semester, which can be really confusing if you are international or even oos and don’t know if you are seeing a tuition $, tuition, room & board $, etc. I was amazed when I started looking beyond in state schools how convoluted some were listed.</p>
<p>When we are discussing fees for potential schools we have to either add books/personal/travel to the schools that don’t include them, or subtract the amount from the schools that do, so your are looking at the same numbers (apples 2 apples). </p>
<p>Another thing to consider is your room and board fee is going to vary depending on your meal plan choice and housing decisions. These could increase a great deal.</p>
<p>Know what the number you are looking at includes.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be mean but… A 2.2 gpa with 1800 SAT score is very low. Maybe you should consider completing college in India. Then, maybe you can got to graduate school in the US. This option would also save the most money.</p>
<p>See you don’t understand a 2.2 would mean like C’s or something right? But my high school average from the 9th, 10th, and 11th grades is 72%. Which here in India is a B. In the US i think that’s about a 3.0 GPA. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure colleges get hundreds of Indian applicants so they know this.</p>
<p>Okay, i think my GPA is not a 2.2 but it is between 3.0-3.3 I used a online converter using the grade i would receive from my school back here. So maybe that would help?</p>
<p>Buuuummmmmmmmmpppppppppppp</p>
<p>So could someone just tell me what my chances are?</p>
<p>Texas is most definately out of your reach, to be quite honest. You pretty much have to be in the top 8% of your class (in Texas) to get in, and I don’t think you are. I have 3 friends all with GPAs of over 90s that did not get in. They only look at class rank. I wouldn’t waste your time applying there. Plus, not to diss it, but it’s the largest university in America. It has over 50,000 students. To me, that’s way too big.</p>
<p>How are you figuring your GPA? </p>
<p>Your chances vary school by school. Chances at the top schools are low. Chances at schools like LSU are good. (Why LSU? just curious.)</p>
<p>My GPA i’m guessing is coming to about 2.9-3.2 Some where in that range.</p>
<p>LSU because one of my friends go there and he recommends it.</p>