<p>Financial aid is the downside. Luckily Minnesota is extremely cheap OOS, and based off the stats of past recipients, I’ll likely receive a scholarship for in-state tuition there. UW-Madison… I’d be shocked if they give me any merit aid, but it will still be about the same price as UIUC, even though I’m in-state there. </p>
<p>But the cost factor is exactly why I chose not to apply to UT-Austin and Berkeley. Well, plus the fact that I probably wouldn’t get into the latter. </p>
<p>Individual attention would be nice, but it really isn’t a big deal to me. I understand why others would seek it out though. I actually prefer a larger school though.</p>
<p>@lldm: I haven’t visited but I was wondering about the religious aspect too! I’m not the most religious person either. Hopefully I can visit it this summer! I’m wondering whether BC might be too big as well, but I will see
I know, it’s soo hard to eliminate schools, haha… I wish it were easier to just apply to a bunch. I feel like my list is going to be reach-heavy, but hey, I guess that’s how you maximize chances? I’m thinking of maybe having a list of 10- 2 safeties, the rest match and reach? Idk, it depends a lot on financial aid too…</p>
<p>I don’t really think Berkeley is that hard to get into for OOS students, but getting financial aid is probably much harder. Budget cuts, and everything.</p>
<p>Visit a school that isn’t in my state? Lol, I wish. It’s not Catholicism specifically, it’s just I really rather stay away from a religion-affiliated institution for various reasons. And because I’m not able to visit many schools I won’t even be able to get a feel of the atmosphere to see if I will be comfortable or not. So because of that I rather just be safe than sorry and not apply to any religious institutions. It’s sort of unfortunate because I liked Georgetown as well. Meh…I’ll be though.</p>
<p>@Love: I didn’t really notice it, except my tour guide was extremely religious and was very happy that most of the students are too. As for size, I thought it was perfect; it actually felt a little small, and most of my schools have about 3k (BC is a very tight community, so everyone knows each other and it’s obvious). Yeah 10 might be easier, but I still feel like it’s overkill for me; I feel like one of those kids who apply to all of the top 20 schools without actually knowing anything about them xD.</p>
<p>^After checking out some chance threads and one of those admissions charts, I guess it’d be much closer to a match than I thought it would be. Probably a high match though. Like you said, though, I wouldn’t get any aid, so it would be too expensive for me.</p>
<p>I have a friend going to BC, and she’s stoked. The people are apparently amazing and very cool to talk to, as well as the professors are great teachers</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s good to hear. And yeah, I know, I don’t want to be one of those kids who just applies to a bunch of “top schools”, but idk how else to really judge them without visiting, there are so many schools that I’ve never even heard of that could be great too. Idk if 10 is too many (I can’t spend a bunch of money and don’t wanna die of stress), I should probably cut it down more haha</p>
<p>I’ll do some more research and try to find several opinions, I really do like the school though. Ughhhh…I do want my college experience to be the exact opposite of my life right now, so maybe.</p>
<p>^If you like the location, Boston University isn’t bad either.
They have a lot of high school summer programs too, but IDK if you’d still want to do them post-senior year</p>
<p>I was actually suppose to do the Boston University High School Scholars program or whatever it’s called. I had my teacher rec and everything ready, then my mom stopped me and told me she didn’t want me to go. -__- That was suppose to be my summer activity. Now I am doing nothing over the summer except studying and doing college stuff.</p>
<p>I haven’t really done a good job of visiting places. Technically, I only visited Rice, but I’m researching at UT all summer. Luckily, most of my schools are in New England, except for Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford. Those are all such reaches though, I’m not going to visit unless I get in.</p>
<p>Watch out, @Repede. Many colleges take into consideration whether or not you visited, which they take as whether or not you actually want to attend their school.</p>
<p>Only Northwestern and Duke consider interest, and I’m on their mailing list. I’m also going to go to talk to them when they visit my school so it’s good enough.</p>
<p>Eh, I haven’t visited anywhere. I don’t have a driver’s license and my parents think 20 miles is a long trip. I think that’s a dumb thing for them to consider in admissions, because whether you visit or not is more about proximity/accommodating parents than interest.</p>
<p>I know Stanford does them, where a virtual tour guide takes you around ‘campus’. Also, visiting may help you see if you truly like a certain college, which it might have with you</p>
<p>I’ve lived at MIT and Wesleyan, and I’ve visited BC.</p>
<p>I’m (hopefully) going to visit my MA + NY schools, along with Brown, but I won’t be visiting any of the others. Visits are helpful, but such an inconvenience when you don’t have your license (or your own car).</p>
