<p>I live in Arizona. NAU has great outdoors, but I have not heard great things about academics, stats wise and from people I know personally. ASU and UofA would be good academically, but I don’t find the locations appealing.</p>
<p>I’m upper middle class, white, both parents went to college, etc. I won’t get much in scholarships from situation, it would be mostly from merit.</p>
<p>I am not sure what I want to study quite yet, though it will probably be something in the science/engineering field.</p>
<p>And when I said my GPA and ACT, I did not mean to sound cocky. I know it is good compared to most people. But as far as schools known for their academics, it isn’t impressively high.</p>
<p>I’ve talked with my parents about expenses, and I know that I can afford expensive schools, but those in the 50,000’s would put me ten years in debt. Which I know isn’t the end of the world, but I’d certainly like to keep that low, especially since I’m not sure what I want to do out of college.</p>
<p>And thanks for all the replies! I’ll be spending quite a few hours looking into these schools.</p>