Ahh my college list… a lot of these I’d need a ton of merit aid but hopefully I’ll get a good scholarship at one of these… lol.
WPI
RIT
Northeastern
Case Western
Vanderbilt
Carnegie Mellon
University of Washington (State flagship)
University of Oklahoma (NMF money)
Arizona State University (NMF money)
Eastern Washington University (where I go now)
welp yeah. I need to do some more research on a few of these but yeah.
And update: I passed the written drivers test lol I was probably more anxious than for the ACT bc the proctor was scary af omg
@ak018 Oh totally misread that… the question before was asking about senior year classes I think.
@Tobster18 If some of those 16 are in senior year you wont have scores to report when you apply to college anyway. If all are before senior year put one in the additional info.
I took the SAT today and I’m not sure how I did. I hope better than last time, but I don’t know. I didn’t get to bed til about 12:30 because I worked til 11:30 last night so I was super tired during the reading section. Oh well, now I just need to work towards the ACT next month.
Yeah, six of those 16 in total will be senior year. But the common app says to even list classes you are currently taking and when you will take the exam.
I didn’t realize how sleep-deprived I was after such a hectic week until today. I slept the whole night and then an extra four or five hours because I was still tired. I wanted to study for AP Macro and Stats today, but ended up sleeping the day away. Oh well, I needed the break. I decided to be productive and finish my online dual credit gov course instead. I finish my French class on Thursday, so that’ll be the end of my DC courses for Junior year.
@Volunteerism Yeah, it was placed on my first semester.
I would list the tests you’ve already taken I the tests section and next year’s classes in the current classes section. I don’t think it’s a huge deal however you choose to do it though.
@ak2018 Ik that you are middle class, but I would start running NPC. UIUC and any state school OOS can be pretty expensive. Just something to keep in mind. Also, I would make a spreadsheet on google drive with various info about each school like location cost required testing all that and just share it with your advisor that’s what I did and it’s wonderful so organized.
@kassh4 Actually, I talked with both my school counselor and my advisor and I already have so many scholarship resources out there. My school has more than two-hundred local scholarships alone totaling more than $50K, along with many more scholarships I’m qualified for through NASA and Lockheed Martin and online. The only down-side at this point is applying to them all. But yeah, my advisor eased my financial aid concerns and I’m planning to spend the next few weeks looking for scholarships resources and waivers that might help decrease college app fees (if at all possible) since I’m not eligible for waivers. My parents actually mentioned that I was on free-or-reduced lunch until the 3rd grade too. Also, would you be able to link me to that spreadsheet? I’m kind of too lazy to make one myself.
Does anyone know if schools will superscore the ACT among writing and no writing.
For example, I got the same composite score in April and the School ACT but my super score is one point higher. However, the April one has writing while School ACT does not.
@snowfairy137 I was surprised you put RIT but not URochester. They give really good financial packages there and quite a bit of merit aid. Also, if you have WPI on that list, RPI would also be a nice addition. They offered my one friend nearly the same amount of money (21.5k RPI vs 26k WPI) in merit.
Also, one place AMAZING for merit is Miami Ohio! I totally missed it in my college research because it’s an OOS public school, but they give automatic scholarships (well, they’re basically automatic). I think if you get a 34 ACT it leaves your yearly cost at <20k. My one friend (who actually told me about it) committed to going there for 14k per year. It doesn’t base money off of national merit, so it’s a good option outside of your national merit school because for national merit I think you can only pick one to get the aid (not 100% sure on the policy).
USC (soCal) is good too for merit money. I would replace ASU with it. ASU may give good money, but I’ve been to the campus as well as Tempe multiple times, and it’s pretty… empty? There’s nothing to do in Tempe. Gosh I hate that city so much. Even Phoenix is equally as bad. It’s literally just Vegas except all the bad parts and nothing to do. From April onward the weather there is so bad you’ll want to die. Like, you’ll hit 100 degrees in April and walking between every class you sweat so much it’s so disgusting.
(Sorry, this was probably unsolicited advice but we’re looking at some similar schools and I just wanted to say some additions based on what I’ve heard from other people’s experiences as well as my own)
About college lists, UMich is my absolute dream school, but I don’t think I have an above average chance. (GPA is lower and I’m OOS)
Syracuse gives good merit aid if you’re above 75th percentile, and Fordham pays full tuition if you’re an NMSF.
My college list would be something like this:
-UMich
-USC
-NYU
-Vanderbilt (brother goes there)
-Northwestern
-Boston University
-Syracuse University (dad is an alum)
Here’s what I’ve got for my college list (it’s a lot lol)
Reaches:
John’s Hopkins
Brown
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Columbia
Matches:
NYU (applying early decision)
UMich (applying early action)
Boston University
George Washington University
UCLA
UC Berkeley
University of Miami (applying early action)
Safeties:
University of Pittsburgh
Grand Valley State University (absolute safety-- accepts 80% and has already offered me scholarships)
University of Alabama
Penn State
@oPhilippos yeah I only put ASU on my list bc they give NMF money and my friend goes there and wants me to apply lol. My cousins also live there so family is good. Thanks for the advice though!