Full College Scholarships

[jsmla]

My DD wants to be a doctor. We have one of the top med schools here (UNM), so she'll most likely stay around and try to get in here. There's also a program for high school students to get a full ride into an undergrad med school program. Dorms, books, fees, and tuition are all covered. Students have to agree to practice medicine in the state in a rural area for at least 3 years after graduating. That program is pretty competitive to get into, but at least I know the undergrad tuition will be covered with the lottery scholarship either way.

Our DD looked into this-she's in her first year of med school-but, here at least, it was confined to certain areas like family medicine and a few others. She's gotten a few very small scholarships but is going to probably go the loan route. With LSU the average loan runs around $40K/year! We're paying her rent, utilities, car expenses and trying to keep her in groceries but she's still going to have quite a bit of debt. If your DD is interested in family medicine, peds or (I think) ER the rural medicine thing sounds great!

Jennifer

 

[MrsPete]

I beleive there are more academic scholarships available than athletic scholarships.

Yep, having taught high school seniors for 19 years, I can assure you that academic scholarships are considerably more common than athletic scholarships -- not necessarily full-ride scholarships, but $2000 scholarships, tuition-only scholarships, etc. And certain majors are "better" for scholarship money.

NO scholarships are particularly common though. Most students aren't going to get anything in the way of pure gift money.

 

[sheryll]

scholarships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u will have to search for it ....but with good results u should not have any problem with it...

 

[Judique]

My good friend's nephew gets a similar deal at FIU. His SATs and grades were Ivy League caliber. He is having a great time and getting lots of opportunities.

Just for interests sake...what is an Ivy League caliber SAT these days?

 

[Green Tea]

Just for interests sake...what is an Ivy League caliber SAT these days?

Ivys turn down applicants every year with perfect SAT scores.

 

[FINFAN]

Just for interests sake...what is an Ivy League caliber SAT these days?

we take ACT's and the mantra is "score 34 or don't knock on their door"...we won't be knocking, lol.

 

[LilyWDW]

Ivys turn down applicants every year with perfect SAT scores.

Applications are up and open positions can not keep up with the demand. Schools are turning down (or wait listing) thousands of applicants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/edlife/25data.html?_r=3

Attached to this article is a graphic based off of information given to the NY Times by schools. While it is from August of 2010, it is a good visual as to how hard it is going to be for students.

 

[Nickimouse]

Ahhhhh - a thread near and dear to my heart!

OK - I am a college Admissions Counselor/Recruiter -
I'm one of those folks that you see at College Fairs - I visit countless High Schools each year - I travel THOUSANDS of miles a year - and help countless students find out if my school is right for them.

The school I work for is Fairmont State University - we are located in Fairmont, WV - about 1.5 hours south of Pittsburgh, PA.

For an OUT OF STATE student with a 3.0 GPA and around 990 (Critical Reading and Math) on the SAT we GUARANTEE each and every out of state student at LEAST $1,500 in scholarship aid. That lowers our OUT OF STATE
-Tuition
-Fees
-Room
-Board
total costs - with the scholarship mentioned above -
$16,300 (approx)

Top quality education - BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS - low student teacher ratio - cutting edge majors - nationally recognized faculty members - NCAA Division II Athletics - trend setting Art, Music , and Theater programs. Our production of RENT was featured on the front page of the Lifestyle section of the NY times.
Our National Security & Intelligence program is one of very few in the nation to have access to an open source intelligence lab right on campus!

We are affordable - we are accessible - and we reward average "B" students.

Check out our image film to find out more about us!
I graduated from FSU in 2006 - and am very proud to invite students to be part of a history that traces its roots back to 1865.
Check out the video! No - really - go do it!
http://www.youtube.com/user/FairmontStateMedia

If you know of any students that are looking for college options - have them take a look at us!

By the way - we only offer three FULL scholarships - and those are only open to WV resident students.

Sorry to highjack this thread, but I went to Fairmont State back in 1988 when it was still a college.
Good heavens, FSU out of state tuition is less then we are looking at for in state schools for our son who is a junior in high school.

 

[FINFAN]

Applications are up and open positions can not keep up with the demand. Schools are turning down (or wait listing) thousands of applicants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/edlife/25data.html?_r=3

Attached to this article is a graphic based off of information given to the NY Times by schools. While it is from August of 2010, it is a good visual as to how hard it is going to be for students.

which will result in Community College tuition going up and classes being overcrowded..losing 2 of the things that make CC great. Oh well, all these changes going on in the world, financially the snowball effect is really something.

 

[MrsPete]

Applications are up and open positions can not keep up with the demand. Schools are turning down (or wait listing) thousands of applicants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/education/edlife/25data.html?_r=3

Attached to this article is a graphic based off of information given to the NY Times by schools. While it is from August of 2010, it is a good visual as to how hard it is going to be for students.

While that chart looks scary, it is incomplete. I think it included only three NC universities: Duke, Wake Forest, and UNC-Chapel Hill -- oops, I'm wrong -- Davidson was in there too. Those are our top universities, the schools to which our average students don't aspire. Three of the four are schools that the average kid can't afford (meaning can't afford financially) to attend. If you were to look at some of our mid-range universities (Appalachain, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Wilmington), the admissions stats would look quite different, although these are excellent schools and I'd be pleased for my daughters to attend them.

My very un-scientific observation about college admissions, based on two decades of teaching seniors: Today's seniors are definitely under more pressure than we were a generation ago. They're applying to more schools than we did. They're branching out farther, looking into more out-of-state schools. At the same time, they're more afraid of making a mistake than we were, and their parents are less able to pay than our parents were; thus, they're looking at loans, which they both welcome and fear. They're also less willing to compromise their idea of college. By that, I mean they'll borrow before they'll downgrade. For example, I grew up one hour from one of the larger UNC schools. I knew people from high school who couldn't afford the whole dorm experience, so they commuted. An hour wasn't considered a bad drive then. Or they started at the community college and transferred. Today I live 15 minutes from a large UNC school, and I see kids borrowing to live in a dorm rather than drive that 15 minutes. They're more set on THIS SCHOOL, THIS EXPERIENCE AND NOTHING ELSE.

BUT in spite of this increased pressure, my students are getting into college. In NC, many students set their sites towards Chapel Hill, even though they don't have a stellar high school record, and they're disappointed -- but those students are accepted at schools like UNC-G and East Carolina. I don't see qualified students unable to get into ANY university. I don't see kids forced into community college because they couldn't get a place in a four-year school.

 

[LilyWDW]

While that chart looks scary, it is incomplete. I think it included only three NC universities: Duke, Wake Forest, and UNC-Chapel Hill -- oops, I'm wrong -- Davidson was in there too. Those are our top universities, the schools to which our average students don't aspire. Three of the four are schools that the average kid can't afford (meaning can't afford financially) to attend. If you were to look at some of our mid-range universities (Appalachain, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Wilmington), the admissions stats would look quite different, although these are excellent schools and I'd be pleased for my daughters to attend them.

My very un-scientific observation about college admissions, based on two decades of teaching seniors: Today's seniors are definitely under more pressure than we were a generation ago. They're applying to more schools than we did. They're branching out farther, looking into more out-of-state schools. At the same time, they're more afraid of making a mistake than we were, and their parents are less able to pay than our parents were; thus, they're looking at loans, which they both welcome and fear. They're also less willing to compromise their idea of college. By that, I mean they'll borrow before they'll downgrade. For example, I grew up one hour from one of the larger UNC schools. I knew people from high school who couldn't afford the whole dorm experience, so they commuted. An hour wasn't considered a bad drive then. Or they started at the community college and transferred. Today I live 15 minutes from a large UNC school, and I see kids borrowing to live in a dorm rather than drive that 15 minutes. They're more set on THIS SCHOOL, THIS EXPERIENCE AND NOTHING ELSE.

BUT in spite of this increased pressure, my students are getting into college. In NC, many students set their sites towards Chapel Hill, even though they don't have a stellar high school record, and they're disappointed -- but those students are accepted at schools like UNC-G and East Carolina. I don't see qualified students unable to get into ANY university. I don't see kids forced into community college because they couldn't get a place in a four-year school.

That is why I noted in the post that those numbers were ones that were given to the NY Times. However, school all over are having to turn down more and more students because applications are up. Even at my smaller regional university they are having to turn down applications that before would have been a sure thing. They simply do not have the room or resources to support all the students that want to go to college.

This will continue to happen unless we change the way we view education. A college education is great and needed at times... but not for everything. We need to start getting over this idea that EVERYONE needs a 4 year college degree. We need to start supporting our trade schools again. There is no reason a plumber needs to take 4 years in college, take classes like US History or Theater, and waste all that money.