Out of State Financial Aid

Zinhead
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:12:31 +0000

@“Jivy Kemsy Yemsy” -

How generous is the University of Florida to Out- of State students?

UF is not generous whatsoever with OOS scholarships. It is not a great option for you.

Mississippi Resident
Can I get Scholarships from them?
Major: Engineering

African American first generation
Parent income 26,000
Act score composite 31 reading 34 science 27 math 29 English 33
gpa:3.7

A couple of things based on your profile.

1 - Merit starts to ramp up once you get to a 32 and higher. Given your low science and math and strong reading and english, I would retake the ACT and seriously prep for your low area. A 32 will get you full tuition at schools like UA Huntsville and AUB.

2 - Mississippi State could be your safety. It is a solid school, and with the current ACT score you will qualify for a $4,500 scholarship, and you would be 100% guaranteed to get in.

http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/freshmen/money-matters/scholarships/academic-scholarships/

3 - @MYOS1634 is correct in that you should look at “holistic” schools that meet full need or offer targeted scholarships for URM’s. For many schools, a low income black male from the Deep South interested in STEM is the Holy Grail. The only thing that would make you more attractive to these schools would be if you were first generation college student. Many schools will also waive the application fee for families with your income.

Here is a list of schools that claim to meet 100 percent of need.

Amherst College (MA)
Barnard College (NY)
Bates College (ME)
Boston College (MA)
Brown University (RI)
Bryn Mawr College ¶
Bowdoin College (ME)
Bucknell University ¶
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College (MN)
Claremont McKenna College (CA)
Clark University (MA)
Colby College (ME)
Colgate University (NY)
College of the Holy Cross (MA)
College of Wooster (OH)
Colorado College (CO)
Columbia University (NY)
Connecticut College (CT)
Cornell University (NY)
Davidson College (NC)
Denison University (OH)
Dickinson College ¶
Duke University (NC)
Dartmouth College (NH)
Emory University (GA)
Franklin and Marshall College ¶
Franklin W. Olin College
Georgetown University (DC)
Gettysburg College ¶
Grinnell College (IA)
Hamilton College (NY)
Harvey Mudd College (CA)
Haverford College ¶
Harvard University (MA)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Kenyon College (OH)
Lafayette College ¶
Lehigh University ¶
Macalester College (MN)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Middlebury College (VT)
Mount Holyoke College (MA)
Northwestern University (IL)
Oberlin College (OH)
Occidental College (CA)
Pitzer College (CA)
Pomona College (CA)
Princeton University (NJ)
Reed College (OR)
Rice University (TX)
Saint John’s College (NM)
Saint Olaf College (MN)
Scripps College (CA)
Sewanee: The University of the South (TN)
Smith College (MA)
Stanford University (CA)
Swarthmore College ¶
Thomas Aquinas College (CA)
Trinity College (CT)
Tufts University (MA)
Tulane University (LA)
Union College (NY)
University of Chicago (IL)
University of Notre Dame (IN)
University of Pennsylvania ¶
University of Richmond (VA)
University of Rochester (NY)
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University (TN)
Vassar College (NY)
Wabash College (IN)
Wake Forest University (NC)
Washington and Lee University (VA)
Washington University, St. Louis, (MO)
Wellesley College (MA)
Wesleyan University (CT)
Williams College (MA)
Wheaton College (MA)
Yale University (CT)

You will have to do some research on which ones have engineering, and use the net price calculators to figure out which schools will give you the most money. Unless the family has significant of assets, tuition, room and board might be close to free.

4 - Some public universities have scholarships targeted at URM’s. For example, the University of Wisconsin has a full tuition scholarship available:

https://provost.wisc.edu/csp.htm

4 - There are a variety of outside scholarships that you would qualify for based on minority status and family income level. The Gates Millennium Scholarship Fund is one of them.

http://www.gmsp.org/

5 - CC has a wealth of information regarding scholarship and application information. Someone like @juillet will be able to better steer you in the right direction.

Good luck!!!