Help needed finding more safety and target schools

DadTwoGirls
Sun, 14 Jun 2020 23:49:52 +0000

“U of Vermont,”

Admission wise a safety. Affordability wise a reach. A presidential merit scholarship is very likely, but does not bring the OOS price down to $20k per year. The UVM NPC does predict merit aid (and for us predicted correctly).

Rutgers is a very good university. I think that you definitely should apply to it. I would add a second in-state public university. You may very well end up with 10 or more acceptances, and find that most are just not affordable. You want to avoid the situation in which all are not affordable.

I agree with others that the Universities of California are very unlikely to be affordable. You should figure that they will cost the full out of state price, which is way over your budget. You have a very long list and dropping the UC’s would make the list a little bit shorter.