Out of State Financial Aid

sushipanda
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 06:31:37 +0000

Not very. Don’t expect a full-ride or anything close.

You’d likely qualify for a bit of aid, probably a few thousand a year.

http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/cost/

This website shows the cost of attendance. It’s an estimated 45k a year for an OOS student.

The best OOS scholarship they award is $20,000 a year, but that’s only given to small handful of students. Like, really small.

It’s very very difficult to get an OOS scholarship that will cover full costs considering that the highest is only 20k, so you’d have to get a large combination of scholarships. Even for in-state students, getting a full ride is almost impossible.

The full ride scholarships for in-state students are reserved for people who are National Merit Finalists, and that, combined with the Florida Bright Futures program for in-state students doesn’t give UF a need to give out that many scholarships. I have a friend who had great stats (4.8 UF GPA, 1530 SAT, ~20 AP and IB classes, etc.) and he still didn’t get anything major from UF. It’s a little different for OOS Students, but the website says it’s a pretty limited program as well. (Copy pasted this paragraph from an older post).

However, some guy on here claims that his son with a 4.7 UF GPA and 1510 SAT qualified for the 20k scholarship, but didn’t give much detail on his EC activities and etc.

Your GPA isn’t really that special for UF. Make sure you recalculate it first, but unless you took around 17-19 AP/IB classes + All Honors classes to recalculate your weighted GPA into a 4.5, your GPA is below average. Keep in mind, this is solely for admissions only. A 4.5 recalculated GPA will probably be their average next year, but simply having the GPA to get in doesn’t guarantee it’s a good enough GPA to get one of their prized scholarships.

Coursework is heavily factored into GPA. I don’t know what you took, perhaps you exclusively took AP classes from 10th grade and beyond, or perhaps you only took 6 total.

Your ACT score is slightly above average (Average this year was 30), but a 31 alone isn’t enough to get you that 20k/yr scholarship.

I don’t know what your extracurricular activities are, but from what I’ve heard, scholarships are a mix of stats and EC activities, where both have to be pretty strong in order to be considered.

You can probably try for a few small scholarships here and there, but getting anything major is unlikely. Assuming you don’t get any of the major scholarships and are just relying on the financial aid they give you, you’re still going to graduate with a mountain load of debt, possibly over 80k+.

I believe you could also declare residency in Florida to get in-state tuition, but it’s a weird process and you have to declare financial independence from your parents and everything. I’m not really familiar with the whole thing so you’ll have to look more into it. Anyways, even if you do this, you don’t have access to the debt-saving scholarships that are only available if you graduated from a Florida HS, so you’d still end up paying a lot.

It’s not really worth going into huge debt just to get an undergrad degree here, lol. We’re a good school, but we’re no Harvard or MIT.

However, check out USF. I know it’s not as highly ranked, but it’s still a good school and they’re typically very generous with OOS aid and scholarships. The highest scholarship they award is 12k a year (tuition is 17k a year for OOS), and is obtainable by getting a 29 on the ACT.