Help find more affordable schools

courtney1
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 03:42:16 +0000

Hello! So I’m a junior in high school and was looking at all the schools I really like and have noticed that they are all extremely expensive. Luckily my parents are paying for my undergrad, and money is not too important, but I don’t want to burden my family with a 50k tuition and then room and board on top of that. My sister went to school for like 35k (Yes, I know that is still expensive) so thats roughly my budget. We probably won’t get need based financial aid, so any money that I do get will come from merit aid or independent scholarships. If anyone could help recommend some schools, I would be extremely appreciative because I feel like all the schools I look into and like end up having a 55k tuition.

surrounding area: I really like urban campuses in cool areas. I don’t want my school to be in the middle of nowhere or be in a big “college town”

location: I live in Virginia and would like to stay in the eastern half of the country

religious: I am not religious, but I don’t mind a school with a religious affiliation as long as there aren’t strict rules (ex: no boys in the girls dorm after 10 pm) and the religion of the school is not forced onto me

size: mid sized preferred (I just don’t want super tiny or ginormous)

intended major: environmental science (or something similar)

female

mom has a masters and dad has a doctorate (I think, he’s an optometrist)

stats: 4.3 w and 4.0 uw GPA (at end of sophomore year), 6 AP and 8 honors classes (freshman-junior year), I haven’t taken the SAT or ACT yet, but I took practice tests without studying and got a 1330 and 29

in the Medical and Health Specialties Program at a normal public high school

activities: Operation Smile (treasure sophomore year, president junior year, member of regional leadership council junior year), recycling club (joined junior year), CHKD circle group (project leader junior year), jobs (lifeguard, gift shop, church nursery, babysitting, dog sitting), write a section for a local magazine published once a month, sports: swimming (varsity 9, 10, 11, 12), lacrosse (jv 9th, varsity 10, 11, 12), volleyball (varsity 10, 11, 12; club 9, 10, 11, 12), trying to get an opportunity to help with environmental research as nearby university for this coming Summer (has not been confirmed yet)

honors: Spanish NHS, NHS, student commentator for New York Times