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1. I've got a 28 on the ACT and 3.275 cumulative GPA. Does anyone know how much I could get from the UofA scholarships. I know from Tech I can get 9,000 dollars. But I'm having trouble finding very good scholarship info from Arkansas.

9k total, per year, or per semester?

Schools give out their awards differently, also have different standards that must be kept to keep the aid.

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2. How much cash am I looking to drop all together? It's really hard to convince my parents that going to Arkansas. Looking at their tuition chart the section "Undergraduate Dep. w/par" seems to be pretty cheap. This seem to exclude Board (so no meal plan I guess) and Room is a bit cheaper. But da fack does Undergraduate Dep. w/par even mean?

You need to sit down and examine what you want to be, what you want to pursue a career in, what you are capable of doing.

Right down three options, verify that each school offers a degree program in each as you may find you do not like option A and want to switch during your freshman/soph year.

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3. Is it better to live of campus or on campus cost wise?

Pretty sure you have to live on campus your freshmen year at UofA (or it was like that at one time).

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4. How cheap are games if you are a student?

Do not let this be a deciding factor in where you attend school.

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If anyone can add any useful info about this then I would be so greatful, I kinda hoped on this college thing late and whenever I try to look into where I'm attending I get overwhelmed. TIA

You need to schedule campus visits soon, you will be excused from missing classes in HS for this, while this visits won't give you an accurate picture of what college life is like, it will give you an idea of class sizes and prof/teach interactions for various schools.

If you prefer small class sizes, interactions during class, engaged discussions, the UofA is likely not going to be for you. If you want to blend into the crowd from the professor's viewpoint, do the work outside of class, show up and take notes during the class, you'll be just fine.

Large campuses and classes are not for everyone, just as small campuses and classes are not either. They usually let you sit in a class pertaining to your degree choice on a visit to get an idea.

Wherever you choose to go, get a job, it doesn't have to be a job you keep the 4/5/whatever amount of years you are on campus, but do whatever is possible to keep from taking out student loans. Besides most employers want to see you worked while going to school and helped pay for the costs of doing so, some will care more about this than your GPA (if they even care, most places outside of academia/specific fields don't).

Don't waste money on useless credits from easy classes to boost your GPA, take classes that will teach you a skill of some sort, versatility is key in today's job market as you can find higher paying jobs outside of your degree focus if you can do them.

And example would be instead of taking French Lit, take a psychology class or two (certain ones can help with managing people in the workforce).

If you are immature and not ready to be on your own, if you are likely to party your way out of school during the first 4 semesters, if you will frick off on Xbox instead doing the work outside of class, don't waste everyone's resources taking a high paying award away from a more worthy candidate enroll in a commuter school close to home and save your parent's some money and aggravation, you can transfer where ever after completing the frosh/soph hours "everyone" has to take.

This post was edited on 1/18/15 at 10:14 am