Hi Myos1634!! You REALLY know your stuff! 
THANK YOU!!! You roll it out so simply and clearly and YESâŠthere will be loads of concessions in this process! EVERYONE dreams of being recruited by the elite and prestigious Uni with scholarship money galore and dual degrees debt free!!! I had a full ride to ND but those days are gone. It is SOOOOOO much more competitive now and yesâŠeven with a 1450 (which I believe is an AMMMMMMMMMMMAZING score for a French boy), he wonât get much. Honestly if he had done all of his education in America though I am SURE beyond a reasonable doubt he would be in the 1550 and 4.4 for sure. That integrated math is SO different here and so spread out. A lot of what is on the SAT would be covered now in 1ere and he just hasnât covered it yet. He has a lot of âmath gapsâ which is crazy, but he is working to catch up. My eldest is at the London School of Economics and rocking hardcore stats and Calculus with her French preparation but it somehow doesnât correlate well to the timing of the SAT test??? He is going to try the ACT and hope for better results. Based on his practice tests he should be near 800 for Bio and physics though so maybe that will pull him up? We arenât expecting much but I was wondering if you had any ideas for a great state schoolâŠCHEAP and respected. He was thinking the University of Washington with its amazing med school, Penn State, RutgersâŠThese are all very economical (for the US at least) and great research institutions with solid med schools⊠As far as the smaller liberal arts schools⊠I think he really wants to volunteer/shadow in a hospital so was thinking more about larger schools with med schools attached. But even a small liberal arts school that was located in a big city with a hospital would work!!! THANK YOU so much.