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shockey · May 24, 2010

dreunc1542 said:

As someone who had similar SAT scores and was looking at going into journalism/communications in the not too distant past, I am not too far removed from where your son is right now. He should be able to get at least a half-tuition scholarship at most of the good Journalism schools like Syracuse. I ended up not applying to Northwestern because they didn't offer merit-based scholarships.

Let me make a case, though, for the Ithaca College Park Scholar Program. It's a Full Scholarship program for kids going into the Communications school at Ithaca. It's given to about 10-15 kids per year. Not only is it a full scholarship, but there is a stipend given to the students each semester. Any kid who has it, and plays their cards right, can actually make money by going to school without working a job. I actually had zero interest in going to Ithaca, but my mom insisted I apply for the scholarship.

There is a finalist weekend of interviews and such and after that weekend, I was hooked. I really don't think I would have had a better college experience going anywhere else.
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that's great advice. ithaca's program is stellar!

Boom_70 · May 24, 2010

shockey said:

dreunc1542 said:

As someone who had similar SAT scores and was looking at going into journalism/communications in the not too distant past, I am not too far removed from where your son is right now. He should be able to get at least a half-tuition scholarship at most of the good Journalism schools like Syracuse. I ended up not applying to Northwestern because they didn't offer merit-based scholarships.

Let me make a case, though, for the Ithaca College Park Scholar Program. It's a Full Scholarship program for kids going into the Communications school at Ithaca. It's given to about 10-15 kids per year. Not only is it a full scholarship, but there is a stipend given to the students each semester. Any kid who has it, and plays their cards right, can actually make money by going to school without working a job. I actually had zero interest in going to Ithaca, but my mom insisted I apply for the scholarship.

There is a finalist weekend of interviews and such and after that weekend, I was hooked. I really don't think I would have had a better college experience going anywhere else.
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that's great advice. ithaca's program is stellar!
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Don't rule out the Martin Luther King scholarship that got Brook Hundley through Ithaca.

Buck · May 24, 2010

As a rising senior, he doesn't need to fill out the FAFSA immediately, but he should really do it.
I've seen estimates of 40 percent of students who qualify for financial aid never access it.
If he doesn't qualify for a grant or waiver of any kind, it'll help figure out what he can get in Stafford loans.
Finally, you and he should spend his senior year checking out every Rotary, Lions, Elks, Kiwanis, etc. club in you area. Many of them offer small schoalrships, but a kid that works at it can patch together a decent amounty of financing that way.

shockey · May 24, 2010

dreunc1542 said:

As someone who had similar SAT scores and was looking at going into journalism/communications in the not too distant past, I am not too far removed from where your son is right now. He should be able to get at least a half-tuition scholarship at most of the good Journalism schools like Syracuse. I ended up not applying to Northwestern because they didn't offer merit-based scholarships.

Let me make a case, though, for the Ithaca College Park Scholar Program. It's a Full Scholarship program for kids going into the Communications school at Ithaca. It's given to about 10-15 kids per year. Not only is it a full scholarship, but there is a stipend given to the students each semester. Any kid who has it, and plays their cards right, can actually make money by going to school without working a job. I actually had zero interest in going to Ithaca, but my mom insisted I apply for the scholarship.
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i'm an idiot. mentioned this to the much wiser mrs. shockey when she returned from work a few minutes ago. mentioned this deal to her and she looked at me like i'd lost my mind.

"that's the deal jesse (the son of a friend of ours) has at ithaca," she said. "relax, we're all over that. jesse loves it and they pay for EVERYTHING. even a computer."

the scholarship winners must maintain a 3.5 grade average but so what? it's too good to be true. reason to hope: jesse, attending the same h.s. as middle son shockey, had a slightly lower average and a lower sat's score than middle son.

file this under "too good to be true," but a poor father can dream, no? het, dreunc, please fill me in on what the campus and campus-life are like, either here of via p.m.

OH, AND A HUGE "THANK YOU" TO ALL MY SportsJournalists.com BRETHREN FOR WEIGHING IN ON THIS TO HELP AN IGNORANT FOOL FEEL HIS WAY....

leo1 · May 24, 2010

Lugnuts said:

Shockster,

I'm assuming you're familiar with this, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAFSA

Nearly every student is eligible for some form of financial aid. Students who may not be eligible for need-based aid may still be eligible for an unsubsidized Stafford Loan regardless of income or circumstances.
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A lot of parents assume they don't qualify for aid and therefore don't bother filling out the 130-page (or whatever) FAFSA form... only to discover around junior year they do indeed qualify for thousands of dollars in grants, low-interest loans, work-study, obscure scholarships, etc.

To me, the mark of a truly great school is one that will take your FAFSA results and make up 100% of the difference... somehow, come hell or high water.

Here is a list of the only 100% need-blind schools for U.S. students. Note Cornell is one of them:

Amherst College
Beloit College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Claremont McKenna College
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia University
Cornell University
Cooper Union
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Denison University
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Knox College
Lawrence University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Phillips Academy
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University
Roxbury Latin
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of Chicago
University of Miami
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
Vassar College
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University
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as a proud alumni of grinnell college i can say that my alma mater does incredible things and turns out incredibly accomplished alumni (excluding me). our endowment is still north of $1 billion despite the recession. shockey, PM me if he's interested in a small liberal arts school in the middle of iowa where the kids get a fantastic education but also have a damn good time because they make their own fun by necessity.

ucacm · May 24, 2010

This thread proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. On vacation, I visited U of Chicago a few years ago and thought it was one of the ugliest campuses I'd ever set foot on. A buddy of mine that was looking at their law school agreed with me. He ended up at Harvard Law, but visited several of the top tier law schools, and felt that the U of C was the worst campus of them all.

shockey · May 25, 2010

ucacm said:

This thread proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. On vacation, I visited U of Chicago a few years ago and thought it was one of the ugliest campuses I'd ever set foot on. A buddy of mine that was looking at their law school agreed with me. He ended up at Harvard Law, but visited several of the top tier law schools, and felt that the U of C was the worst campus of them all.
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actually, i don't know that you'll get much argument here. a major reason middle man shockey has redirected his chicago-area focus towards lovely northwestern over u of chicago (great school, depressing aesthetics).

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