@momfactfinder - Some other public schools that have similar scholarships include:
Arkansas
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Nebraska
Iowa State
Kansas State
New Mexico
Colorado
Basically these are rural states without a strong high school system.
Thank you @zinhead! There’s a high likelihood of receiving these scholarships with the right stats:
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
STATS: 30 ACT and top 25%
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $10,000 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $15,198
NAME: Mark Twain Nonresident Scholarship
SOURCE: Their website
USNWR rank: 103
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
STATS: 30 ACT and 3.8 GPA
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $15,000 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $15,138
NAME: Volunteer Scholarship
SOURCE: Their website
USNWR rank: 103
IOWA STATE
STATS: 33 ACT and top 10%
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $6,500 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $14,356
NAME: Competitive Excellence Award
SOURCE: Net price calculator
USNWR rank: 108
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
STATS: 31 ACT and top 10%
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $8,000 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $15,476
NAME: Award of Excellence
SOURCE: Net price calculator
USNWR rank: 108
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
STATS: 33 ACT and 3.0 GPA
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $22,050 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $4,417
NAME: Flagship Scholars
SOURCE: Their website
USNWR rank: 129
I didn’t compile the data for any National Universities with a ranking of 130+ by US News and World Report. Arbitrary line in the sand…
UMich CoE in state tuition/fee for upperclassmen is also near $20k. While UIUC fixes the rate for the 4 years, UMich adjust the rate upward every year. My D in sophomore has been paying the upperclassmen rate already. The total 4 year tuition+fee cost at UMich CoE may be as expensive or even more expensive depending on the rate increase per year. The average increase has been around 3% per year.
@momfactfinder you rock! What a generous and helpful thing to do. Other schools I found with the possibility of decent OOS merit with the stats you listed:
University of Utah
University of New Hampshire
Portland State University
You could add UKY to your list.
Wow - University of Utah could be a great and very low cost option! Seems to have good computer science and nursing programs in particular.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
STATS: 2100 SAT and top 10%
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $10,000 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $20,256
NAME: Presidential scholarship
SOURCE: Net price calculator/their website
USNWR rank: 103
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
STATS: 33 ACT and 4.0 GPA
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $23,736 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $2,444
NAME: Institutional scholarship
SOURCE: Net price calculator
USNWR rank: 115
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
STATS: 33 ACT and top 10%
SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: $10,000 per year
2015 COST OF TUITION (after scholarship): $14,268
NAME: Institutional scholarship/Kentucky Heritage
SOURCE: Net price calculator
USNWR rank: 129
@Zinhead “Basically these are rural states without a strong high school system”
Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas don’t have strong high school systems? Since when?
For the above scholarships…what %age of those who qualify actually receive the award? That would be helpful.
Almost every college that awards merit aid has some student scholarship that will bring tuition down to the $20,000 mark. The question is…how many are awarded?
Since they have to pay strong out of state students to attend their flagship universities. It is not just the quality of the high school systems, but the quantity. These are low growth states in which the age cohort that is college age is stable or declining. In order to attract enough high caliber students to fill their professional schools, they have to pay to attract out of state talent.
From Wikipedia:
If these states had sufficient in-state talent, why would they offer significant out of state scholarships?
Not sure about the other states mentioned but CO has a strong high schools, also pretty sure CO doesn’t offer scholarships like this.
Sure they do.
CU-Boulder has an auto scholarship program for the top 25 percent of the OOS class, and OOS students make up 37 percent of CU-Boulders undergraduate.
http://www.colorado.edu/scholarships/auto-consider/freshmen
The breakpoint is an ACT of 29, and the scholarships range between $6,250 to $15,000 per annum. OOS tuition is between $32,000 and $35,000 per annum.
CSU has a similar program starting with an ACT of 25. Awards max at $10,000 per year, and OOS tuition is about $27,000 per annum.
http://sfs.colostate.edu/scholarships-for-entering-non-resident-freshman
I stand corrected. It does seem like a lot when you only consider tuition.
Nice thread. Seems like it would be very helpful to a lot of students. It’s a good place to start-then obviously students need to check the schools web site for more information.
The fact that they give some merit does not mean their own secondary school systems are weak. Colorado resident students are not auto admits to CU, and in fact it is pretty hard to get in without a strong B average and high test scores. Colorado has chosen to fund it’s universities with high OOS tuition. It works. The school has an informal agreement with the legislature that OOS students won’t go above 50% because resides were complaing that resident students cannot always get in. Another choice would have been to further limit the OOS students and give up that extra revenue, but then instate tuition would go up. Admissions standards are higher for instate. Colorado could do what other states do and charge a lower OOS tuition, but then it would lose out on the OOS tuitions from all those kids who don’t get the scholarship and pay the full OOS tuition, and there are plenty of them. Even an OOS student getting a $10k scholarship is still paying $20 grand in tuition.
I think the high school grad rate in Iowa is something like 95%. The high schools are good, and most students stay instate for college, they just have room for more students. Same with Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming. Strong secondary schools, just not a huge population. Why shouldn’t those state take advantage of offering the extra spaces to students from Illinois who want to go skiing and are willing to pay a premium for it?
@NickFlynn - thank you for adding Temple University! Seems like another great possibility (free tuition - wow!) with several good programs, particularly fine arts and criminal justice.
My son will is planning to apply to Case Western. As far as I know, he’s eligible for merit scholarships when he applies by the regular decision deadline.
You might want to include GPA requirement to keep the scholarships. I know University of Utah for example requires at 3.6 GPA to keep the Presidential Scholarship. A GPA that high can be hard to maintain in a demanding major such as engineering.
http://financialaid.utah.edu/scholarships/search/details.php?id=6430
I think Michigan State would be less than $20000 a year tuition for many kids with an ACT over 33. There is an Honors College assistenceship that includes instate tuition rates, plus additional scholarship money.
Not sure if this is still the case…but at University of North Texas, if one got a $1000 scholarship of any kind from the university, tuition was reduced to the instate rate.
Is that still the case?
University of South Carolina had a similar deal. Not sure if that still exists…or not.
Great thread.