<p>OP, I haven’t revisited this thread since my first post… way back on page one… where I said I thought you should be honest about why there’s a disconnect between the grades and SAT scores.</p>
<p>I should have added that your grades are absolutely fine, and I apologize for implying that I thought they are low. They aren’t. You should be proud of them.</p>
<p>What I was getting at, among other things, is that those schools that others on this thread have listed as giving nice scholarships for SAT scores have contingencies about the required college GPA to maintain the scholarship. So it is important to examine, within yourself, the reasons for your GPA, and whether you will be able to maintain the required college GPA to keep an SAT based scholarship.</p>
<p>A family friend had stats similar to yours, not quite as high in either his GPA or SAT as yours, but high enough to be given a big scholarship based on SAT scores to one of the schools Pghmomof2 listed as offering guaranteed merit money. He is now back at home, after a lousy first semester, and a marginally better second semester at that university. His only way of returning and keeping the scholarship beyond the upcoming fall semester (two semesters of probation to earn a particular overall GPA to keep the scholarship) would be to earn a 4.0 this coming fall semester. His parents do not believe that will happen based on his freshman year, and so he will be at the local community college next year. </p>
<p>That family really never reflected on why there was a disconnect between the hs GPA and the SAT scores. If they had, they might have concluded that for their particular child, based on past performance, his chances of being able to keep that scholarship were low, and they might have selected a cheaper school, without a scholarship, to give him a chance to find his way with less pressure to succeed right away. I’m not implying that the OP would have the same troubles.</p>