Sorry. Boston College does not guarantee housing for four years for all students. If you get in they let you know along with your acceptance if you have three or four years of guaranteed housing.
Check fee waiver box on common app.
Ask your guidance counselor (or person who serves that role) to include test scores on the transcript and check ‘fee waiver: low income’ box.
Then, yes, applying is free for all common app colleges.
Same idea of Coalition App.
Obviously all 12 colleges you rank for questbridge are free to apply.
So, you’re only limited by how many quality essays you can write. (Don’t underestimate that challenge).
Start filling out Request info forms for all colleges you’re considering.
However universities with competitive or automatic full rides will expect you to at their application fee and these scholarships will be highly dependent on your test scores.
If you can afford to retake the SAT try to do so after practicing a lot, aiming for 1420- 1450. That would improve your odds.
@Slavic2000 Referencing #29, you have to actually try. A simple google search brought up a host of schools that would accept you and give you an automatic full ride with your stats.
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com
Just to name a few, you already would get a full ride at…
Tuskegee University
Alabama State
Florida A&M
North Carolina Central
Prairie View A&M
with a 1400 on the SAT…
Louisiana Tech
with a 1420…
Troy University
1450…
Howard
We also have a full thread dedicated to this. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/2006094-2017-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html
You have a lot of difficult - 10 percent admission - schools on your list. Vanderbilt for one is very test score focused and yours are a little low. Can you do Kahn Academy and take the SAT again in hopes of raising your score? I would consider many of these schools reaches and although not familiar with all think you need some true matches and safeties. If number of colleges are a concern I would look at admitted student profiles for this year and cross off some where you are not at least above 50 percent.
I would suggest a 2+3 transfer solution. Go to a community college and ace the gpa then transfer to an ivy league or other high caliber school.
You’d get great financial aid but you’d have to get good grades to get accepted.
Dartmouth, Columbia, RPI, Cornell and others have programs like this.
Good news, everyone. I’ve been accepted by Questbridge into their College Prepscholars program.
Congratulations!
@MYOS1634
Thank you.
@Slavic2000 Congratulations on Questbridge. Your nex step is to apply to be a Questbridge college applicant. Even if you are not named a “Finalist” and matched later in the Questbridge application process, many colleges which partner with Questbridge will still reach out to you. So participating in Questbridge will expose you to many top colleges.
Also, starting December 2017, College Board made free the sending of SAT scores for low income students. https://www.collegeboard.org/membership/all-access/admissions/college-board-announces-unlimited-sat-score-sends-low-income There is no limit to this free service. So you could apply to many colleges free.
Your list did not include Pomona College, a top small liberal arts college near Los Angeles. Although it is a reach school for everyone (admissions rate was 6.9% this past spring), they do make an extra effort to find a wide diversity of applicants, including low income. See this article about their efforts: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/us/affirmative-action-college.html?emc=eta1 They flew in for free a top candidate. Pomona College is extremely well-endowed and thus is able to offer very generous financial aid. https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/college-rankings/details/EndowmentPerStudent
Avoiding debt is a great idea. Who knows what will happen after you graduate; if you can’t earn enough post graduation to repay your debt, you will have a large financial burden hanging over you. Of course I hope for the best for you, but I’ve read too many stories of students who sink deeper and deeper into debt post graduation. They can’t find well-paying jobs; instead they cobble together a variety of part-time gigs that together do not meet their livings costs. Students debt can haunt you for and event past your lifetime, unless other forms of debt. Community College then transfer to college/university is far more preferable than avoiding college altogether. Good luck to you.
Nice!!!
If you’re serious about changing majors to engineering, I’d focus on Cornell or Northwestern ED if either comes out as your top choice school. Also find out how hard it would be to change majors into engineering, note that it’s not as hard as people make it out to be but you should have some idea. Usually you want to apply to your instate flagship EA along with an ED, but I didn’t see what state you’re from, unless I totally missed it.
Thank you for the congratulations, everyone. This certainly feels like the first validation of my efforts.
@PeaceOfMind, thank you for the information. I’ve heard of Pomona and was considering it for a bit. Seeing as circumstances force me into engineering, I don’t think I can add liberal arts colleges. I need colleges that have engineering (preferably aerospace, electrical or petroleum).
@theloniusmonk, yes, I am considering both schools.
As a separate question, how much do you guys think being a Questbridge Prepscholar increases my chances when applying to a partner college? If I had, say, a 50% chance of being admitted without QB, how much have my chances increased?