<p>Hello. My son is a HS junior. His GPA is 3.85 and he scored 33 on the ACT and 2100 on the SAT. We live in Michigan and he wants to study Nuclear Engineering; the two closest schools offering this program are the University of Michigan and Purdue. In looking at the websites for these schools I see very little in the way of scholarships or grants other than the $10,000 Trustees scholarship to Purdue which still wouldn’t bring the out-of-state cost down enough to make it more affordable than UM. My question is: am I missing something or is there really very little scholarship/grant money for a student with my son’s academic background? Thanks for any info.</p>
<p>Just in time - there is a nuke power scholarship essay contest at Jets, the Next Generation scholarship fund. Deadline 2/28.</p>
<p>your son’s academic are very good for a jr, but a 33 ACT would be just average for michigan engineering. But also take the ACT again Oct of senior year, his score will be in early enough for EA admittance, and I believe his score will get to a 34 or higher. For a scholarship in engineering, have him take AP BC Calc and either AP chemistry or AP physics his senior year and get A’s. Also recalcualate his GPA with just core courses and discount his freshmen year. It will be extremely competitve to get an engineering scholarship and unfortunately, more scholasrhi available for girls.</p>
<p>^ It is hard for me to believe that a 33 ACT would be average for any school. That is greater than the top 1% of all scores.</p>
<p>suggestion, have your son consider a Navy ROTC scholarship. where 100% of the tuition is payed for and he would get about $200/mo. you only have to pay for R&B. Having these good grades, and scores (especailly math), a couple of good EC’s showing leadership and some varsity letters, then you have about 90% chance of getting the scholarship. The Navy really only wants technical majors, and then he can apply to UM, Purdue but also MIT, Cornell, Notre Dame, Nortwestern, Duke, etc… and this will cost you less than $10K/yr.</p>
<p>But please don’t do it unless he is really keen about the military. however, the Navy is the best place to learn the nuclear enginering and he will have a committment of 4 years (it might be 5 because the nukes have to go through an extra year of training).</p>
<p>I was NROTC and engineering , but went into the Marines.</p>