Suggestions for STEM/music-oriented high stats S

ucbalumnus
Mon, 16 May 2016 02:09:29 +0000

Curiousermama:

We do not qualify for FA. Merit money would be nice.

Would you be able to pay up to list price (minus a small student contribution) at the more expensive schools, or is there a parental contribution limit that will make many of the more expensive schools unaffordable without significant scholarships? If the latter, be sure to tell him before he makes his application list so that he knows that he has to aim for scholarships when applying to more expensive schools.

Yale and Stanford do not offer merit scholarships (although their need based financial aid is more generous than that at most schools; try their net price calculators.

What particular STEM fields? If he is not quite decided, pay attention to how difficult it can be to change major (particularly if he is interested in engineering majors). The more popular UCs can be rather difficult to change into engineering majors, so adding some more where it may not be as difficult to change (e.g. [UCI[/url], [url=Major Changes | Engineering Student Affairs]UCR[/url], and [url=http://engineering.ucmerced.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/majors]UCM](http://www.changeofmajor.uci.edu/CoM_Engr.html)) may be worth considering. It can be very difficult to change into an engineering major at [url=http://engineering.berkeley.edu/academics/majors-minors/change-major]UCB[/url] and [url=https://students.ucsd.edu/academics/advising/majors-minors/capped-majors.html]UCSD[/url], but [url=http://engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/advising-q-a/#a1]UCD[/url] does not appear to be that difficult for most engineering majors. [url=http://engineering.ucsb.edu/prospective_undergraduates/changing_your_major]UCSB[/url] appears to be moderately difficult.