Or in many states, at a school that is 4-10 hours from home yet still instate. In NY, if you live near NYC, go to Buffalo. In Penn, swap Philly for Pittsburgh. It won’t be ‘just like high school’ as even the sports teams and weather will be different.
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Grants and Scholarships | Financial Aid
Merit Based Scholarships | University of Maine at Farmington
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Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pittsburgh are NOT in the northeast, and that is what this poster requested.
Keene State is a good recommendation, as is U Maine Farmington. Those ARE in the northeast. So is Central CT State University. Costs at those colleges are modest to begin with. Certainly worth a look see if the northeast is a must.
@Butterfly2022 are you interested in colleges that are outside of the northeast? Or perhaps you could tell us all how far south and west your student is willing to go to attend college. There certainly are options that are outside of the northeast…but sort of close.
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Everyone defines the NE differently. Some say Virginia. Some say south of NJ isn’t. So you don’t know what OP thinks. I classify WV as the NE as it’s a tad south of Pittsburgh which I classify as NE given it’s in PA. That you don’t doesn’t mean it isn’t. It isn’t for you. WVU is North of DC and Baltimore and less than 3.5 hours away - and most consider those two cities NE.
I did not include schools that have ranges except Salisbury which tells you via its estimator bcuz while they are assured they can be in a range. Example UNH - if you Java 4.0, you get up to $20k. 3.8 up to $15k.
There’s more but I went off the top of my head.
When OP provides info and clarity on what they mean geographically, schools can be identified.
This.
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Either New England
or
New England+Mid-Atlantic (Del, MD, PA, DC, NJ, NYS - some include the northern VA area too)?
(I took it as the latter but yes more geographical details would be needed indeed.)
Pittsburgh is closer to Midwestern than Eastern Seaboard in culture for sure (and unlikely to meet budget except for the highest stats¬ all majors) but still “Northern”.
WV is culturally very different though from any of these.
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It seems that you live in NY (please correct me if I am wrong).
You were provided with a few recommendations above for automatic merit. Are those ok?
The University of Vermont has out of state merit, but it is not automatic. Some of the other schools that are “popular” have been known to give merit to OOS students, but it is not automatic and is generally given to very high stats students (if it is given at all).
Are you comfortable providing additional information? Would you/student be willing to leave the northeast?
This is funny. You are literally the only person who thinks of WV as the northeast. That being said, Morgantown is a great college town!
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I don’t think i’m the only - in fact I know i’m not the only.
As I showed, it’s directly South of Pittsburgh and North of DC/Baltimore.
Perception is that it’s not But reality is that it is - if you include the entire state of PA.
I do. Others may not.
Nonetheless, I’m not hear to debate this or get chastised for providing links to auto merit schools. I don’t see others doing it. I’m trying to help OP.
Where I live - people consider it the deep south and yet i’m four hours from Indiana U (the midwest) and Cincinnati, etc.
People consider Louisville the South - look at it on the map… it’s not.
So i’m dealing in my reality.
Anyway, i provided links off the top of my head. There could be more. Anyone else have any?
OP has to be forthcoming with more info - if they’re from NY, there will be options including U Maine, Salisbury - but they’ve provided very little info. URI, UNH could be options…and I put more above. WVU could be an option too - not sure how you classify it but I do the Northeast. Frankly, it’s whether or not it’s an option for OP but if Pitt would be, then why wouldn’t it be?
Nonetheless trying to help OP but they need to help the contributors here by providing info that can get them formal suggestions.
Need stats and major.
I wish the criticisms of those trying to help would stop.
I appreciate you trying to help!
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I don’t consider PA to be New England. My cousins lived in PA and they were ‘southerners’ as far as we were concerned. I lived in Baltimore. It is below the Mason-Dixon line and Southern.
I was born in Mass. That is NE. Not sure most from Mass consider NJ as part of NE and probably only parts of NY.
But OP can define what she’s looking for.
I find it hilarious you think Baltimore is the south - but I get it. If OP doesn’t find it South, Salisbury is $37K before merit - and depending on stats, there could be merit!! Just throwing that in as an example where merit isn’t the question vs. actual cost.
That’s the thing - we all define things differently - so I appreciate that you see Baltimore as south.
And I hope they do come back because no one can truly help them without having definitive info they will hopefully come back and provide - stats, etc.
Thanks
I don’t think most people equate “Northeast” with New England. To me, New England is a subset of Northeast. (And New England has a very straightforward definition: CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME.)
But where the southern border of “Northeast” lies is open to debate. (Obviously, lol.)
All that matters is what counts as “northeast enough” to the OP. And whether they’d consider “northeast adjacent” options if the price is right. (Also worth noting that they said “especially” northeast, which doesn’t necessarily mean exclusively northeast.)
But there’s really no point squabbling about what the boundaries should be if OP isn’t going to clarify their criteria.
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Ps - I should say PA isn’t New England. That’s factual. No subjectivity there :).
But they said Northeast.
Anyway, they can always disregard whatever lacks interest to them but perhaps they’ll see something that they’re drawn to.
Maybe we should start a thread - what’s the Northeast. What’s the southeast.
That’d be fun. Maybe not.
I think MOST, obviously not all, people generally follow the general outlines of the divisions as outlined by the census bureau: Northeast: Div 1: New England: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT, Div2: Middle Atlantic: NJ, NY, PA. The Mason Dixon line is pretty historically relevant.
ETA the divisions: Census Regions and Divisions of the United States
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Please move on from arguing about geographic definitions.
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Deleted… peace..
Admitted to UNH received $20,000 trustee scholarship. So, the price is under $40,000 which we are comfortable with.
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Beautiful..
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Congrats to you.
The pressure is off.
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amazing! I hear great things, too. Was a serious contender for my 25. Not sure your major, but the opportunity to work at https://www.iol.unh.edu/ was super cool for my kiddo.I think like 100 (!) kids work there.