He got a full ride (tuition and room and board). 2 scholarships from the school.
I know full rides are not common but I do know there are some good engineering schools out there that give good amount of merit aid right?
^ This sounds like FA. Schools call them “scholarships” too sometimes…
Not full rides exactly, but…in your ACT range, look at these college websites:
Alfred State. (NY)
Bluffton College (OH)
Cedar Crest College (PA)
Hope College (MI)
Miami U (OH)
Niagara College (NY)
Ohio Northern Univ (OH)
Univ of Toledo (OH)
Wilmington College (OH)
Thanks. And I want to tell everyone thanks. I know my score is not perfect but I am working with what I have.
^What is your state for residency purposes? Some scholarships, if OOS, dont help much:)
WHICH school gave your friend a full ride for an ACT 24?
Georgia State University
It is important to distinguish merit aid from financial aid. About 5 years ago, my DS had a 1350 (math + critical reading) and a 4.5 GPA. He received 20k merit from Dickinson, 20& from Lafayette, 0 from Penn State, University of Pittsburgh (
This forum is well educated about the differences between merit and financial need based aid. Keep in mind that people will tell you they received $$, but not be specific about what type of aid.
That doesn’t sound right about Ga State. There must be more to that story.
If the stat is below the 75th percentile, it is no way a merit aid for full tuition except for athletic or music scholarships.
@CaliCash …in post 6, you say you got no aid from Northwestern…but in the post above, you claim to have gotten grant money which was actually increased on appeal.
Which is it? $0 or $30,000 in grant money?
NU doesn’t give merit aid…is that what you meant…because if so, it would have been good to clarify this for the OP. Some people use the terms grant and scholarship interchangeably.
@Dennis101 Are you a U.S. citizen?
27 ACT is too low for anything but token amounts of merit aid.
Read the links in this thread for scholarship info…but check the college websites to make sure these still apply.
That Georgia State kid must have gotten HOPE and maybe a Pell Grant and a loan/WS that covered his costs. Or maybe a talent award was given, or maybe some kind of diversity award? No way did he get a “full ride merit scholarship” based on his stats.
OP…are you asking about purely merit or are you also wondering about need-based aid?
Now that I think about it I think he did get HOPE because he lives in GA. And I think he did get a diversity scholarship.
I had a 3.96 UW GPA and 30 ACT and 2020 SAT. I got into
UWashington Honors (I forget how much money but it was all paid off)
UCBerkeley ($25,000 in aid yearly)
Emory University ($60,000 yearly)
A few other schools but I didn’t apply for aid.
It’s not only how much you received in merit aid.
It is really about the total cost of attendance (COA) minus merit aid.
Some colleges’ COA is 50K per yr, some colleges’ COA is 65K per year.
Here are my DS’s net COA ((COA - merit) x 4 years):
GPA UW 3.22, GPA W 3.47, ACT 35, SAT2s 760, 710, 4 APs by 11th, 6 APs by 12th
Private and UCs calculated on 4 years of attendance
CSUs calculated with 5 years of attendance
San Jose State University 125K
Loyola Marymount University 217K (merit 5.5K/yr)
Chapman 160K (merit 20K/yr)
RIT 132K (merit 15K/y)
Syracuse 192K (merit 12K/y)
DePaul 132K (merit 17K/y)
Champlain 144K (merit 12K/y)
Cal State Univ Long Beach 115K
Cal State Univ Northridge 115K
Cal State Univ Fullerton 125K
UC San Diego 128K
UC Santa Cruz 138K (merit 0.5K/yr)
My D had a 3.8 GPA (4.7 weighted). ACT was 32. All of the money she received were in form of merit aid
UC-CH no money (she is going here)
Ohio State ($16k/year)
Georgia ($9k/year)
Tennessee ($15k/year)