Chance me undergrad first-year premed (current junior) [TX, 3.86, top 15%, <$60k/year, bioengineering, neuroscience, or psychology]

So $60k may or may not work. But it depends on if the colleges determine you have need. Your parents would run a college’s net price calculator to see what you could expect to pay. Some colleges are $90k+

You really need another semester under your belt and even year before doing this.

That says, your safeties likely will be except SMU.

Maybe Trinity and Baylor are targets but the rest, including UT are high reaches at this point but again it’s too early.

At $60k - whether you have need or not, UCLA has to come off. If it’s determined you are full pay, then Penn and Northwestern come off too. They have no merit aid.

Here’s the other thing - you can pre med anywhere but can’t do bio engineering at many so if that’s the major you decide, your list changes anyway.

It’s good you’re thinking about this but you need another year of grades and a test score - not a predicted one.

In the meantime, have your parents run the NPC for Rice, Northwestern and Penn to see if you’d qualify for need based aid.

Keep up the good work.

Ps - you’ve taken those 4 ap classes with those test scores and you’re about to become a junior ? Which math will you take Junior and senior year

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