Unweighted HS GPA: (calculate it yourself if your high school does not calculate it)
Weighted HS GPA: (must specify weighting system; note that weighted GPA from the high school is usually not informative, unless aligned with the recalculation used by a college of interest, such as CA, FL, SC public universities)
*SAT Scores: 1500
List your HS coursework
(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)
English: AP Literature & Language
Math: *(including highest level course(s) completed) AP Calculus AB, AP Stats
Science: (including which ones, such as biology, chemistry, physics) AP Chemistry, Biology Honor
History and social studies: AP US History, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Psychology
Language other than English: (including highest level completed) Spanish 3/Chinese
Visual or performing arts: Drawing 3 with a national ward
Other academic courses: Business Management (IB), AP Environmental Sciences, AP Computer Science Principles,
Awards
National Award (Silver Medal) for drawing Extracurriculars
1-year experience working at McDonald
Member of DECA
Member of Math Society at high school
Volunteer at the City Library
Essays/LORs/Other (Optionally, guess how strong these are and include any other relevant information or circumstances.)
Schools
UGA (EA), University of Texas at Austin (EA), Texas A&M (EA), Penn State (EA), Villanova (EA), Fordham University(EA), Indiana University (EA)
If a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below; also, for colleges that admit by major or division, consider that in the chance estimate.
Assured (100% chance of admission and affordability):
UT Austin is a public university which does not give need-based financial aid to out of state applicants. Are you hoping for a merit scholarship?
UT is a reach. For chances, admission to McCombs out of state would be low probability, setting aside the fact that it is unlikely to be affordable for you.
Look closely at the other public universities on your list to see what types of merit scholarships they offer to out of state students, because they may not offer any need-based aid. Penn State is not known for its affordability even in-state; not sure about merit. Texas A&M and Indiana U are also public universities.
UT Austin student body is less than 10% OOS/International. Getting into any of the UT schools OOS is pretty challenging. Your school grades/SAT are in the ballpark of their student body but I’d still call it a crap shoot.
The bigger issue is going to be cost. Most State schools do not commit to meeting financial need. With your $15-$20K budget, even if there’s an acceptance to UT, it’s likely to be unaffordable. That statement is likely to hold true at Indiana, A&M & Penn State as well.
As a prospective Finance major I’m curious what’s attracting you to these specific schools? You might do better at any number of private schools. While the pre-aid tuition cost might be much higher, there will be many scholarships available to someone with your grades - likely getting the net cost down well be low some of the State options.
Hmmmm. Heck no. You can’ barely get the room and board for that budget.
You built your list entirely backward. You start with a budget and pick schools to fit.
Your entire list is not within budget. You built inverse - you picked schools that are too costly. And the costs aren’t even close to your budget. They are multiples of your budget.
What will be are Florida schools with bright futures, Alabama, Ole Miss, Miss State etc. UAH for smaller.
You have a UGA and Penn State. For all intents and purposes, the big Florida publics and Alabama are the same thing.
None of the out-of-state public universities on this list are going to meet your number.
Always run the net price calculator for any school before adding it to the list.
What are the fit requirements behind this list? I don’t see signs of thinking or reflection on the type of setting, location or program that would suit this student. Has the student done any campus visits?
The cost constraint means that the student needs a large merit scholarship, not just admission. This is either a very high reach or out of reach for a non-Texas resident at UT Austin.
Texas public universities place a very high importance on class rank.
Congratulations that’s an impressive record.
Is the 15-20k budget based on being a middle income family (75-125k for instance) or is it a set budget hoping for merit while you don’t qualify for much or any financial aid?
Fordham only makes ~ budget if your child is a NMSF and s/he gets a full tuition scholarship.
As posters have mentioned, alas, the public universities on your list won’t come within budget. Your child will likely get in but the bill would be in the 40-60k range everywhere.
If you have a low SAI, many “meet need” private colleges will be interested and affordable. https://www.mefa.org/student-aid-index-sai-calculator#efc
However, if you need merit to cover full tuition or maybe even more, you can look into some universities already listed
Or for instance https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/honors_college/about/index.php
If that budget is a bit flexible, look into universities that may have a Flagship match (you don’t pay more tuition than for the flagship) Oglethorpe in Atlanta, Hendrix near Little Rock… you can also see if UMaine’s deal applies to Florida. It’d still cost more than 15-20k though.
I’m from Texas. UT-Austin reserves 90% of their admissions to Texas residents, which means he has a chance of 10% or less just to get in. The business school is even more competitive. And that’s assuming you’re paying for nonresident tuition, which will be well over 50k a year with room and board and no financial aid. I would just stick to FL, which has some of the lowest tuition in the country.
that’s an impressive record.