Quick question: non-NMF but 2400 SAT?

mom2collegekids
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:47:31 +0000

There’s also a thing on the UC websites about Alumni Scholarships…?? Anyone heard of that? I’ll do some searching on CC. (By the way, these are all very, very difficult to get right, as in near impossible?)

My niece got a UC alumni scholarship for UCSD. It wasn’t much at all (like $2500 one time). She got it for being a NMF and high stats - since UC’s don’t give NMF scholarships. Don’t know if that’s typical or not.

And, you’re right. All UC scholarships are hard to get and sometimes there’s no obvious reason why some get them and some don’t. They seem to be awarded to get “certain kids.”

Keep in mind that some Regents scholarships are only for $1k and some look at “need”.

***Okay. My parents said 25k. 100k for all four years. (If, god forbid, it took me five years, then 20k.)

So, that makes UCs a bit of a stretch already when one factors in dorming, etc. $32,000 is the estimate for UCB, for ex., on the website. And unfortunately, tuition keeps rising… But I can make it work with loans, right? ***

Yes, you could probably make a UC work with your parents’ contribution, a student loan ($5500 for freshman year), and maybe some summer income.

Look at it this way…If your parents give you $25k and you borrow about $5k per year, then you have $30k. Many schools are costing between $35k-55k per year.

So, you’ll need annual scholarships of about $25k per year for you to go to a pricey school (like most privates and some top OOS publics )) Try USC.

However, for less pricey schools (some OOS publics in the $30k-40k range), you could get $20k - 25k+ per year scholarships, and you wouldn’t need to borrow any money at all. You ALSO wouldn’t even need all of your parents money. Perhaps they would let you put their “savings” towards law, business, med, grad school???