<p>Are there any really solid, generous with scholarship, liberal art colleges out there that could possibly suit me?Any that are SAT optional?</p>
<p>STATS
GPA-4.67 weighted
GPA-4.67/5.0
CLASS RANK-13/994
AP TESTS-WORLD HIST-4,waiting on results from biology, u.s history and eng lang and composition
AP CLASSES-WORLD HIST, U.S HIST,BIOLOGY,ENG LANG AND LITERATURE
HONORS COURSES-almost everything else, ENG 1 AND 2, ALG 1 AND 2,GEOMETRY,LATIN 1, 2 ,3,CHEM 1,BIOLOGY 1,PHYSICS 1
Extra-curriculars- Member of the Pearland Marching Band
Sophomore representative for band
Band Reporter
Band President
Member of Honors Band
All-District, All-Region, All-Area Flutist,
HOBY Representative
Member of National Honor Society
Member of Interact
Member of Science National Honor Society
Volunteer at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital
Winner/Honorable Mention at Houston Flute Club Competition
Member of CANDO Program
Straight A Student for 3 years(I’m going into my senior year)
Do I have a good chance at those scholarships? Any input would be greatly appreciated…</p>
<p>Good LACs that are SAT optional: Bowdoin, Middlebury, Hamilton, Bates, Holy Cross.</p>
<p>You need to be more specific about the kind of aid you are looking for.</p>
<p>Will you family qualify for need-based aid? Or, are you looking for merit aid?</p>
<p>Some LACs have excellent need-based aid but little or no merit aid. Others use merit aid discounts to attract top students. So, depending on what you are looking for, your list of colleges might be different.</p>
<p>Merit-aid is definetely a must-both parents are doctors…</p>
<p>For a list of SAT optional schools which is growing all the time see:
<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org%5B/url%5D”>www.fairtest.org</a></p>
<p>Unfortunately, even most of the SAT optional schools will consider SAT scores when it comes to giving out merit scholarships.</p>
<p>So, it would help if you could give us a range for your SAT/ACT scores. It would also help if you could give us an idea of your possible majors/academic interests, as well as an indication of any geographic limitations.</p>
<p>SAT scores in the 1800’s -judging from PSAT(taking SAT in Oct.)
Major-Biology, Pre-Med Studies
No real geographic limitations at this point…</p>
<p>Try: DePauw in Indiana, Lawrence U in Wisconsin, Willamette in Oregon, Denison in Ohio, Earlham in Indiana, Washington & Jefferson in PA, Dickinson in PA (SAT Optional), College of Wooster (Ohio), Hobart & William Smith in NY, Hendrix College in Arkansas. Good chances for merit money at all of these schools, and they have strong pre-med/bio programs as well. </p>
<p>Your grades could certainly get you into places like Bowdoin, Bates, Hamilton, etc. but those three - and many other highly selective schools - offer need-based aid only, not merit. Be sure to talk openly with your parents about what they are willing to pay — in some cases, parents are willing to sacrifice if they feel a school is worth it. But, keep in mind that there’s nothing sadder than a kid in April who can’t go to a top choice school because his or her parents refuse to pay extra bucks for it. :(</p>
<p>Finally, you might try taking the ACT in September as a back up to the SAT - some people do better on the ACT than the SAT. Prep hard for both tests as they will determine your chances for merit aid at many schools, even SAT optional ones. Also, don’t forget that you may need two SAT subject tests at some schools (not any of the ones I listed in the first paragraph above) and be sure to schedule those in as well. Sometimes doing well on the subject tests can overcome lower SAT scores, and some of the SAT optional schools still want to see subject tests (use the fairtest.org link to determine which ones). </p>
<p>I’m sure others will chime in with other suggestions. Good luck!</p>
<p>They’re not going to give you aid just because your parents are cheap. They’re both doctors and not willing to pay for your college? What could they possibly be saving up for a Maserati or something…</p>
<p>Just because someone is a doctor doesn’t mean they necessarily have enormous amounts of disposable income. My parents make it so I definately don’t qualify for any need-based aid, yet full tuition at Harvard (or any of those private schools that are very expensive these days) every year isn’t a possibility.</p>
<p>Try Colorado College. Its a really great LAC especially for science with several scholarships for science. They are one of only 2 schools on the block plan (you take one course at a time for 3.5 weeks). It’s especially good for science because you can do lots of hands on experiments or take trips (like geology classes go camping and collect samples etc). My best friend is a bio/environmental science major there and absolutely loves it.</p>
<p>Reading this post, I kept thinking: KNOX! KNOX! When I was looking at schools, I was really into Knox College. I didn’t end up matriculating there, but it was in the running all the way into the end. Even though I wasn’t intersted in pre-med all of their publications continued to mention how good it was at it. They were so convincing I even contemplated becoming a neuroscience major just because of all of the cool things they did. They just went SAT optional this year, so you shouldn’t have to worry about that.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.knox.edu/x761.xml[/url]”>http://www.knox.edu/x761.xml</a>
They give out incredible merit aid. I’m pretty sure you could get a musuc scholarship and an academic one because your grade are better than mine were and you sound like a better music player.</p>
<p>Knox would make an excellent safety for you and it’s a good school, best LAC in Illinois.</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke is a good liberal arts college that would give you a pretty hefty scholarship. Smith would give you a good scholarship too. If you’re not too against women’s colleges, consider those. Mt. Holyoke is SAT-optional and Smith is not, but they see past scores. :)</p>
<p>Hey there butterfly! I was looking into Mt.Holyoke earlier on as well and it definetely caught my eye. However would I still have to submit SAT scores for scholarship purposes? I’m pretty sure all my other credentials are solid except for the SATs…Would I still have many opportunities? The school is upwords of 30000 so they’s have to pay for at least 2/3rds of it for me to attend…</p>
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<p>They give a leadership award to incoming students with past leadership roles. The award ranges in size and goes up to $20,000. Your volunteering and your being head of a few organizations seems like it’s enough to get you some of that. They do not look at grades and SAT scores for the leadership award.</p>
<p>I’m sure MHC can work out some type of plan with you if you decide to apply and don’t like your package when you get it next year. Mine went up $10,000 from what it was initially.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Lawrence University on carlyn’s list recently went SAT-optional, too. They gave me great aid as well.</p>
<p>I think you should check out <a href=“http://fairtest.org%5B/url%5D”>http://fairtest.org</a> 
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<p>Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Bard, Bates, and Lawrence are schools you should definitely consider…</p>
<p>I didn’t even apply to DePauw, and they tried to give me merit aid. Then they asked me to apply, so I did. Then they give me full tuition merit aid. So, yeah, like others have said, consider DePauw.</p>
<p>carolyn said “Try: DePauw in Indiana, Lawrence U in Wisconsin, Willamette in Oregon, Denison in Ohio, Earlham in Indiana, Washington & Jefferson in PA, Dickinson in PA (SAT Optional), College of Wooster (Ohio), Hobart & William Smith in NY, Hendrix College in Arkansas. Good chances for merit money at all of these schools, and they have strong pre-med/bio programs as well.”</p>
<p>For pre-med with a lot of merit aid, try also Ohio Wesleyan and possibly Knox.</p>
<p>They gave you nice list of colleges. If you looking into midwest colleges, Knox college which has early indentification program with Rush medical school and G.Washington University. They also have always been generous with their merit aid, and their increase in tuition has been significantly lower than many other schools. Knox does not require test scores but they will evaluate you wholistically.
Knox recently had Stephen Colbert as commencement speaker and for the size of the school- 1,200 students or so it is mighty good school which sends about 12% of their graduates to medical schools and has been in the top % of Ph.D graduates.
Lake Forest College IL is also has very good placements for med schools and generous as well-beautiful campus, strong sciences.
Illinoys Wesleyan has merit aid of 10 K for people who ACT above 28, good solid school as well.
Lawrence is another great school in WI with excellent merit aid as well as 100% need met financial aid. Tests scores are optional.
If you do not live in midwest your geographic difference might be very attractive to midwest schools.</p>
<p>Does Knox review SAT scores for merit scholarships?</p>