National Merit Finalist College Decision

mom2collegekids
Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:59:19 +0000

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The big downside of Texas A&M’s award is that you must maintain a 3.5 to keep it. As great a student a person may have been in HS, engineering majors are known to have “lesser GPAs” in college.

Congrats with being named a NMSF! Very exciting. Make sure that you meet the deadlines and have taken the SAT and had your scores sent to NMCorp. As long as you don’t have any GPA issues, and aren’t a discipline problem at your school, you will likely make NMF in Feb.

<<< University of Alabama, <<<<

My son graduated with a Chem Eng’g degree from Alabama in 2013. The facilities are amazing…The STEM complex is new, state of the art, and will blow you away. Senator Shelby is the one who spear-headed getting this complex and the goal was for Alabama to have what MIT has.

The new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) is nearly 1 million square feet of new STEM academic space.

My son’s roommates were also ChemE and good friends of his, so I also got to see their experiences as well.

Alabama has those fabulous Super Suites where each student has a private bedroom within a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom “super suite” that also has a living room and kitchenette.

What would you like to know?

Two of my son’s ChemE roommates were immediately hired after graduation into very high paying jobs. Actually, they knew that they were hired at the beginning of their senior year…these were companies where they had done internships.

My son and his other roommate went on to medical school. At Bama, about 1/4 of the ChemE majors are premed. Bama has excellent premed advising if that is of interest to you.

The Alabama NMF award is 5 years of tuition, 1 year of housing, 3500 per year stipend, 2000 summer experience, and an iPad or laptop.

However, as an Eng’g major, you would ALSO get 2500 per year…so a total of 6000 per year in stipend!

That 5th year of tuition can be broken into 2 summer abroad trips if desired. The school give you the semester tuition, which is about $13k a semester for you to spend on that summer experience. That usually covers classes, airfare, living expenses, and extra travel …amazing. Many NMF ChemE majors choose to do a summer abroad in one of two European countries that offer an amazing ChemE experience.

You have to visit! If you do, set up your campus tour and then let the Honors College set up appts with ChemE profs and another tour of the Eng’g facilities.

Also…ask any questions here on the Bama forum here on CC…it’s a very popular forum.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-alabama/

If you have any other questions, please let me know.