Chance me: NJ, 1410 SAT, 4.25 WGPA [3.87 unweighted GPA], psychology major on the pre-law track

What is your budget? Has your family run the Net Price Calculator on the schools’ websites to see what the cost is estimated to be? If your other parent is still alive, most colleges will also want that parent’s financial information included as well.

This is important to know because many of the schools on your list are need-aware, meaning how much financial aid you need may affect your chances of admission. For instance, if one student could afford to pay $50k and another student only $5k, the college would oftentimes take the student who could pay $50k first. (This is not always the case and if you have a high degree of need it doesn’t mean that need-aware schools are impossible, but it’s something to keep in mind when crafting a balanced college list.)

A safety is a school that is extremely likely to admit you, extremely likely to be affordable, and that you would be happy to enroll in and attend for four years. I would not consider Bentley an extremely likely admit, and are UVM and UDelaware affordable? Out-of-state public schools generally don’t provide any need-based aid that is not federally funded (Pell Grants and loan). Have you thought about any of the New Jersey publics?

By the way, I would not submit any of your AP scores with your applications, as I think your application will be stronger without them.

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