36 ACT 3.0 GPA - pls help

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This is not what the OP needs. The OP (are you male or female?) needs schools that meet 100% of demonstrated need. (I can’t link to the source because it is another college site, and it’s against TOS to link to it.)

100% Need Met Without Loans, Regardless of Income

Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Brown University
Colby College
Columbia University
Davidson College
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
US Air Force Academy
US Naval Academy
Vanderbilt University
Washington and Lee University
West Point
Yale University

Second Best: 100% of Need Met With No Loans for Some Incomes

Cornell University
Aid is loan-free if your parents’ total income is less than $60,000 and total assets are less than $100,000.

Dartmouth College
Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $100,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

Duke University
Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $40,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

Haverford College
Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $60,000. Families making more than this threshold can expect small loans ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 a year.

Rice University
Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $130,000.

Vassar College
Aid is loan-free for students from “low-income families.”

Washington University in St. Louis
Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $75,000.

Wellesley College
Aid is loan-free if your calculated family contribution is less than $7,000 and your parents earn less than $60,000. All other students qualifying for financial aid can expect to have a maximum of $15,200 in loans over four years.

Williams College
Aid is loan-free if parents earn less than $75,000 with “typical assets.”

100% of Need, Some of the Need is Met With Loans

Barnard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College<Case Western Reserve University
Claremont-McKenna College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Connecticut College
Colorado CollegeDenison CollegeEmory University (US only)
Franklin & Marshall College
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvey Mudd College
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lafayette College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke CollegeNortheastern University (US only)
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Scripps CollegeSkidmore College
Smith College
Thomas Aquinas College
Trinity College
Tufts University<UCLA
Union College
University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of RichmondUniversity of Rochester (does not include Eastman School of Music)
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University
Wesleyan University

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UAlabama only uses grades from 9,10,11th grades.

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Ok.@littleliam
We’d need to know the weighted GPA for 9-11 and 9-12.

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You have to realize the magic isn’t in “needs blind.” I wonder if you really meant “meet full need.” Many may still leave OP with a bill he can’t pay over four years. Better to start with lower cost colleges, maybe (if this is NY) the very fine Guaranteed Transfer program, and any state scholarships that apply.

Not sure how a custody battle from a few years ago will play. I understand the emotional aspects. But some colleges will look more at the rebound than the challenges.

OP has said engineering or stem. The only EC shown is tennis. What math or sci ECs, clubs, any comm service, etc? Hoping you have them, just didn’t list them.

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Late reply but my EC’s aren’t that shiny. In addition to tennis, I have around 50 hours of volunteer service at an online anti-depression organization - basically the step before the suicide hotline.

I’ve also made around $1k from playing an online e-sport called CSGO. I’ve traveled to LANs and been invited to leagues where only the top 250 players in the game (the game has 16,000,000+ users monthly) are invited to. Still debating whether or not to include this is my apps.

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Of course you should - some colleges even have e-sport teams now. See if colleges you’re interested in have one.
And those EC’s are pretty good - not “top of the world” scientist, sure… but being a top 250 athlete is something pretty good that you can add to trying to be recruited for D3 tennis.
Run NPCs then cast a wide net.

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You took a gap year so your twin brother could go to college, what did you do for the year? Did you work? With both parents not earning an income in 2017, your EFC should be $0 which should open a lot of financial aid options for you.