Financial Aid In College

It’s that time of year again. Students all over the country are rushing to get their college applications in. They hope for the best and try not to expect the worst. Students are impelled to bring up their GPA so that the admissions office of the undergraduate program they aspire to get in, may take a second look at their application. These students aspiration is that their first choice university will pick them. Their theory, a well proven one at that, is that the better your test scores and GPA are, the better of a chance you have to be admitted. This research paper compares two of the best colleges in the state of Indiana. Indiana State University in Bloomington (IU Bloomington), and Purdue University (Purdue). While some differences are

Of the undergraduate students who enrolled at Purdue, 67% of those received financial aid (College Navigator). In comparison, 71% of undergraduate students who had enrolled to IU Bloomington received financial aid (College Navigator). Another form of financial aid that were accepted by both colleges were loans and grants, these slightly differ in the percent of students who were shown using these. At Purdue, 3% of students met all of their needs using financial aid and loans (Big Future). However, at IU Bloomington 56% of students had grants and student loans (Indiana University). Overall, in this category, IU Bloomington is the best college choice because of the percentage of students who received financial

One similarity shown are the SAT scores that were submitted to the colleges. At Purdue, 25% of those who submitted an SAT score and were admitted had an overall score of 1,600 (College Navigator). In contrast, at IU Bloomington 25% who submitted SAT scores and were admitted had an overall score of 1,570 (College Navigator). Regarding the ACT scores, Purdue showed a score range and the percent of students who fell in that, IU Bloomington did not do that. This is one difference shown in the research. At Purdue, 45% of Freshmen had an overall ACT score of 18-23 in each category (Big Future). There wasn’t any data shown in regards to ACT scores for IU Bloomington (Indiana University). In compliance to the data shown, Purdue would be the best college choice in this area because of the information presented about their students SAT and ACT