Is going out of state worth it?

MYOS1634
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:38:26 +0000

OK, so if as per NPC at top “meet need” schools you would get “full tuition”, I’m guessing they’re leaving about 15-16K for room/board/books. Focus on “meet need” schools that don’t include loans in the package (so that you can use thatto decrease EFC costs left to your responsibility).
That means:
Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Columbia, (Cornell if your income is at 75K or below),Davidson, Franklin&Marshall, Olin, Harvard, Haverford, (MIT if your income is at 75K and below), Pomona, (Northwestern if 75K and below), Princeton, (Rice if 80K and below), Stanford, (Uchicago if 75 and below), Vanderbilt, (Vassar, Wellesley WashU if 60K and below), (Williams if 75K and below), Washington&Lee, Yale.
Obviously all of these are super selective and would all be reaches. Your best shot is probably Colby, Davidson F&M, perhaps Olin (they’re a small, elite hands-on engineering school linked to Babson and Wellesley; their selection process is specific and in two rounds: round 1 is your commonapp, round 2 is a weekend where you have to respond to a team challenge and go through an interview - weekend fare paid by the college and round1 results all destroyed, you get acceptance or not on your “challenge” and interview only.) So, I’d include all 4 of them (or the first 3 if Olin is not of interest), then add 2-3 from the rest of the list. Start working on the commonapp specific essays (copy the prompts now, before commonapp goes into “reset mode”).

Not owning a farm will help.