<p>What are my chances of getting into a top tier college, and where should I apply? </p>
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<p>I am an African American male- Junior in High School
34 ACT
20/419-rank
5.5/5.0 w
3.75/4.0 uw
2000+ hours of caddieing March 2006-present
spanish honor society, national honor society, diversity club, amensty international, peer leadership network, math tutor, saxaphone for last 8 years
attended National Youth Leadership Forum in summer 08
interested in pre med…family is upper middle class but cannot afford high tuition b/c of 4 kids and my brother is just a year younger than me </p>
<p>Finally, by the end of my senior year I will have taken 13 AP classes</p>
<p>you might want to consider the Evans Scholarship (caddies). It is a full ride (and housing) to a local University.</p>
<p>I second OperaDad. You would have a GREAT chance of getting an Evans scholarship. Go for it.</p>
<p>I will most certainly apply for it, but I feel that in order to be able to get into medical school, research is necessary and the evans scholarship although fantastic is restrictive and demands caddieing during the summer which is when the most pertinent research is done for undergraduate pre-med students…but much thanks…in addition I don’t know if I will qualify, my family makes between 120-180K a year but there are 4 kids and my brother and I are close in age as stated before…</p>
<p>In addition, I am pursuing a reasearch opportunity at the University of Chicago this summer and I will not be able to caddie as much as I should…I hve been devoted to caddieing but I desperately would like to have a marquee research experience so maybe I could apply to a school like Johns Hopkins, the HPME program at Northwestern or something similar</p>
<p>College is expensive, but at the same time we could save a lot of money too when they go off to college. We could save money on:</p>
<p>Food
EC fees
Gas to drive them around
Family vacation
gifts for their teachers
housing (by renting out the spare room)
Heat
Water (less shower)
Electricity (cell phone, computer, light)</p>
<p>Did I miss anything?</p>
<p>Go post this on the Chance forum. Sheesh.</p>
<p>Your chances are very good, which you should know with your grades and scores, courseload and URM status. If the problem is paying for it, choose schools known for merit aid or go for some of the big scholarships.</p>
<p>Fine on the food…the rest I don’t think so
Heat isn’t marginalized per person so you wouldn’t say anything
neither is electricity
no one wants the rent a room in a house with two-three young kids in it
we rarely go on vacations and drive everywhere
my EC activities don’t cost much except my sax lessons
I drive myself around on my own gas
I don’t gife my teachers gifts
and I’m gonna guess I don’t eat an excessive amount of food each year…hmmm</p>
<p>bbb- this is not a chance forum. I was just having some fun with you because of the title. No, we don’t really save that much money when you go away to college. Good luck with your college process.:)</p>
<p>thank you, I didn’t mean to be hostile…I was just trying to put my question somewhere people would respond to it…thankyou for your input as well</p>
<p>Scroll up to the top of this forum and read the “Schools known for great merit aid” thread. Pay attention to liberal arts colleges (fewer males, fewer yet AA males). You will find a huge number of schools to consider.
You will also learn that “tippy top tier” schools don’t give merit aid but some great schools do.
Read around a bit here and you will learn that if you want to go to med school it’s your grades and MCAT scores that get you in, not the prestige of your undergraduate school. You might find a place that will pay a fair amount of your undergrad tuition if you don’t care so much about a famous name…</p>
<p>i’d say go for an ivy league school, especially harvard, yale or princeton. and i’m not just saying that because they’re HYP but because they have fantastic aid even for upper middle class families. even with the recession and the shrinking endowments, unlike other schools like small LACs, i know for a fact that harvard and yale (and assuming princeton) still view financial aid as the top priority and will cut everything else before they cut financial aid. they will work with what you family can afford. your stats are good enough that you have a chance, all you have to do is get in and from there, it’s a lot easier.</p>
<p>My son has been doing research during the school year at Case Western for the past two years and NOT during the summer in preparation for medical school. Many others at Case do research under work study although my son has actually done his for no payment in order to get the experience needed. I would look at each school and talk with people in the appropriate departments to find out whether there are research opportunities for undergraduates during the school year.</p>
<p>The Evans is a great scholarship, and it includes tuition at Northwestern for Illinois kids. Take a look at:
[The</a> Evans scholarship - the best college scholarship available](<a href=“http://www.essortment.com/all/evansscholarshi_rtqi.htm]The”>http://www.essortment.com/all/evansscholarshi_rtqi.htm)
Since you could caddy on weekends or at dawn, you should be able to keep your caddy job and do your research this summer.
Also, you should look at Wash U and Vanderbilt, which are similar to NU, for decent merit scholarships, but a full ride is really hard to come by, no matter what your circumstances.</p>