<p>Deep springs and cooper union should top the list but note that you wouldn’t get the traditional college experience at either school</p>
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<p>Yes, that was one of the limitations of the search engine. I wanted to do an ACT-based search as well, but there were too few ACT score thresholds to choose from.</p>
<p>Are there any other college search sites which would allow a better version of this search, including:</p>
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<li>Total cost of attendance (not just tuition).</li>
<li>SAT and ACT for 25th and 75th percentiles as minimum criteria.</li>
<li>Bonus: for a given GPA or rank and SAT or ACT, adjust total cost of attendance by subtracting guaranteed merit scholarship amounts.</li>
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<p>Most of the Virginia publics (excluding UVa and W&M) would be considered fairly reasonable by the criteria of this thread (at or below $35k). Virginia schools are fairly tight with their merit aid, but need-based aid is good.<br>
Virginia Tech
James Madison
Old Dominion
Mary Washington
etc…</p>
<p>Anyone ever know someone that went to Minot State University?</p>
<p>Lowest COA for OOS I’ve ever seen</p>
<p>Annual tuition & fees $5637.62
Annual room and Board $4730.00</p>
<p>Total $10367.62</p>
<p>with auto scholarships 3.5 GPA and 27-29 ACT 1220-1330 SAT $3500 per year.</p>
<p>Now that is cheapest I’ve ever seen. No idea on quality though.</p>
<p>Minot State is a good LAC type college if you are going into nursing, education, etc. Job market in Minot is outstanding in pretty much anything. It’s inline with most smaller state schools. Drawback is Minot is it for “big towns” around there.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone has mentioned Slippery Rock University. If you go in and keep a 3.0 tuition plus room and board for a basic dorm is around $18000. My DD is a performing arts dorm, an LLC, she is in a dbl room, that has it’s own shower, built in refrigerator and microwave. It is lovely and the total for the upgrade is $21,500. She is doing fantastic there and absolutely loves it. She feels it is a perfect fit for her.</p>
<p>I’ll add **Berea **to your list because every accepted student gets a 100% tuition scholarship. However, if your income is over a certain amount you can’t go. It’s very much a “typical college experience” in terms of classes and campus and all that, just all students do work-study 10-15 hours a week and none are super rich.</p>
<p>It’s pretty competitive if you live outside Appalachia, as they tend to hold more spots for those kids, but even international students can get the scholarship.</p>
<p>Overall accept rate is about 13% but stats are not super high.</p>
<p>My niece kicked around a number of colleges – I think she had credits from five of them before she was done – but the only one where she got traction was Western Washington. She graduated with a BA in creative writing and a BFA in dance . . . so I can’t tell you a whole heck of a lot about their business program. I was impressed with the journalism she did, and she loved the dance program, and actually came close to supporting herself as a dancer/choreographer for 5 years after she graduated. (Then she decided that she needed to find a career path where she wouldn’t hit an absolute wall when she turned 30.)</p>
<p>So I can’t say her experience at WWU was super-practical, but I can say that she was totally engaged in her studies and intellectually stimulated.</p>
<p>Western Carolina University has an AMAZING musical theatre program. With Terrence Mann as the “department director” the program has soared.</p>
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<p>All of the PA colleges in this tier meet the criteria: [Welcome</a> to the PA State System of Higher Education](<a href=“http://www.passhe.edu/Pages/default.aspx]Welcome”>http://www.passhe.edu/Pages/default.aspx), not just Slippery Rock.</p>
<p>I know several director-level finance people at my company who graduated from Western. Will it put you into banking/Wall St? Probably not, but it can put you on the road to a CPA, cost accounting, financial analysis at many a company.</p>