I am a white male who lives in Virginia.
33 ACT, 3.81 GPA, hard course load, good EC’s, essays, recs
Georgia Tech
UMich
Penn St
U of Alabama
USC
Iowa St
Ohio St.
Colorado School of Mines
For aerospace engineering.
Money is an issue.
If money is an issue, you should minimize the number of out-of-state public schools on your list. They tend to give little, if any, financial aid to students who are not state residents.
If money is an issue go to Virginia Tech
How big of an issue is money? West Virginia University also has aerospace and merit awards. You’d have to compare to see if your price would beat Alabama.
USC is $72K per year.
If you were to make NM winner, then you would be eligible for the deep pocket scholarships.
Each college has a net price calculator on their website. You should run it for each school to see what you may be expected to pay. I think your list will be mostly unaffordable because most are OOS publics. Public schools usually give little or no need based aid to OOS students. They are funded by their state taxpayers, and that is where they funnel their aid.
Alabama and Ohio State give merit to OOS students, so still might be options. Not sure about Iowa State, might be an option still (not sure of their merit situation).
Look to your own in state public schools as a starting point, and private schools that “meet need”.
Is your GPA weighted or unweighted? If weighted, then it doesn’t actually do us any good since schools are so inconsistent in terms of how this is calculated.
If money is an issue then you need to run the NPC and you need to consider in-state public options. You have really good choices in Virginia.
You’d get good financial aid at Florida State, Texas Tech, Nebraska, Oklahoma State.