Chance My DD! Texas Resident/ Small High School/ Val/ Great ECs/ SAT needs to come up for Stanford, Vandy, Duke, NYU

[ucbalumnus]

@thumper1

Check about lab sciences at the high school. Many colleges recommend or require three lab sciences…so heck to be sure she has this.

There may be a preference for biology, chemistry, and physics as well.

@Mwfan1921

I just did the NU myintuition calculator. It gives a net COA range between $42,800 and $74,500 for the scenario I ran It asked a few questions fewer than NU’s NPC, which gives a net COA of $68K based on the same information, and I expect that the NPC is closer to what the student would actually see in their FA offer (I’ve not heard of a general accuracy problem with NU’s NPC.)

There is a recent thread from a US citizen living outside the US who applied ED to Northwestern, but got admitted with a net price unaffordably higher than what Northwestern’s NPC (the actual one, not MyIntuition) gave before applying.

So it looks like MyIntuition may be more optimistic than Northwestern’s actual NPC, and Northwestern’s actual NPC may be too optimistic relative to actual financial aid in some cases.