Private Scholarships - Regular Kid With High Stats

ClassicMom98
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:47:22 +0000

Like others have said, it is very school dependent. We were not a full pay family, only full pay for in state public universities, which would have been very very hard on our finances.

My eldest went to W&L and got a merit aid scholarship for full tuition that increased with tuition increases.

My youngest went to an instate public uni and received a 4 year 50% off tuition scholarship.

My older S - a high stats kids - applied for dozens of National scholarships. Got nada. Big waste of time and money. He also applied to a lot of local ones and got roughly $15K+ the first year and about $5K the following 3 years. It was stacked with the merit aid at W&L.

Younger S was an average excellent kid. Did not bother targeting National ones and instead we really honed in the local ones. The guidance office should have a list of local ones plus applications. Some schools have this online. With older S (‘2016) it was still all paper applications in a drawer. But we watched who won what each year and could figure out which one younger S had a shot at. He wound up getting more than older S.

And his uni also allowed stacking. With the covid refunds, he got $$$ back after the first year which covered his second year. All we had to pay for him was his apartment costs and a little bit on the meal plan

But we also live in a poor area where not many go to college.