Can't Narrow down my college list

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:48:48 +0000

Perhaps you should tell us what your grades are like, since for most of us neither 4.3 nor 4.75 is possible on an unweighted scale. Do you have A’s and only A’s? If so, do the A+'s outnumber the A-'s?

Have you run the NPC on each of these schools and if so can you afford them (and are your parents okay with the result)? There is no point in applying to 18 schools that you can’t afford. Many students in April or May will be complaining about not being able to afford the top choices that they were accepted to.

What year are you going into? Have you visited any of these schools?

Looking at your list, I can see what you mean about different schools having different most desirable qualities, but you have a bunch that are quite good schools and probably a match. Unfortunately at some point you are going to need to decide which of these desirable qualities are most important. If you are willing to fill out 18 applications then you won’t need to decide until after you find out where you got in and what the financial offers look like.

“I dont want to rack up loans,”

This is very sensible.