My chances with falling GPA and medium ACT

MYOS1634
Thu, 27 May 2021 23:45:04 +0000

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Each college decides how much your family must by using their very own unique system. As a result, your EFC (“minimum your family will pay for college”) may be, say, $5,000 but one college will give you a merit scholarship, another will expect you to pay just that, and another one will expect $8,000! (Or substitute the numbers: 15K/5k/18K…)
It used to be there was no way to know. On the other hand, public college used to be dirt cheap back when we/your parents went to college.
Therefore, by law since the Obama era (a reason many parents don’t know about it), you no longer have to guess: you can enter information in an anonymous calculator that calculates in the same way the college does and it spits out the number it’ll expect your family to pay. If they ask for GPA, class rank, test scores, it means they’re considering you for scholarships; if they don’t, look at the college’s “freshman scholarships” page to see what they offer in the “automatic” and “competitive” categories.

Honors colleges provide you with a better learning environment: interactive classes rather than straight lectures, an opportunity to meet professors, a more personalized education, and often a scholarship.

Although it’s far from Texas, run the NPC on a well-known college, WPI, and if it seems affordable, look into it. Its philosophy is great for STEM and CS.