Sorry, I guess I was being a bit too picky about the wording. I had to earn all of my scholarships through my academics, even though my family is low-income. I was kind of pissed though, could have gotten $5,000 more dollars if I was the top 10 in my grade, but when a 3.7 leaves you at 22 out of 59, it's kind of shitty. The top 10 in my grade had 3.95 or higher.
So the federal government considered your family a low-income family and you got no help off need-based? I know of plenty of people getting free educations because of coming from low-income families and they did a lot poorer on their tests than I did x_X. I know a guy who did really well on ACTs plus was classified as "low income" and he's getting paid $5,000 a year to goto college (on top of full tuition/books cost/meal ticket/student parking, etc.). That's extra grants and stuff. Another friend is getting $1200 extra a year.
Lucky him. I only got $7,500 in scholarships solely for getting a 28 on my ACT. I am so pissed that I didn't fit the criteria for more money; I went to a harder high school. People who went to public and have the same GPA as me are getting more money because they are in the top percentile, which really makes me mad.
Edit: -Spector-, there is an average of 250-260 at the school. The biggest class ever was the class of 2006, which was 79.
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