Help with college list

midatlmom
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 04:27:00 +0000

You have a very strong chance at Gettysburg and a definite shot at W&M and Richmond. However, at W&M and Richmond, your current scores would probably not be sufficient to give you merit aid - take a look at the descriptions of scholarships available at W&M http://www.wm.edu/admission/undergraduateadmission/costs-aid/index.php. Obviously, if your test scores went up significantly, that could change, particularly at Richmond, which has more merit aid opportunities. I don’t know anything about your brother’s merit offers, but in general, schools look at both test scores and GPA when making merit decisions (although that may not be the case at specific schools).

And I’m not saying you shouldn’t apply to prestigious schools, but your parents have essentially said that they are putting certain financial limits on your choices. Thus, I was trying to give you a strategy - which is to apply to some safer EA schools that you will probably get into with merit offers (such as Ursinus) and then apply to your reaches RD (if you had an EA reach school, I would add that in as well, but most of the schools you’re interested in appear to be ED or RD schools).