Lower middle class+URM + activist = Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Macalester, Skidmore, perhaps Brandeis, Wellesley? Denison for Lugar+ non fiction writing?
For near safeties, Willamette, Kalamazoo, Dickinson.
Run the NPCs.
Express interest at all of them now: create a Kaylalovestolearn.college email account, use it for all of these colleges’ Request info form/join the mailing list, click on the emails they send you, read the links you clicked from the emails. (It all countd as “interest”).
(CU and CSU may be very expensive, even instate. Do apply to the Honors college bur you’ll likely fare better with meet need colleges than with merit based aid).
The Cornelius Vanderbilt scholarship may be worth looking into but you may well qualify for enough need based aid anyway.
Finally, see if your family’s income might qualify you for Questbridge.
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