Looking for feedback - chance me/match me [SC resident, 3.64 GPA (4.8 SC-weighted), 28 ACT, 1260 SAT, want lowest possible cost, health-related major]

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • Female
  • US domestic
  • State/Location of residency: SC
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): magnet school
  • Other special factors: non-ranking high school

Cost Constraints / Budget
looking for the highest merit aid/scholarship and lowest out of pocket cost

Intended Major(s): Public Health, Health Science, Pre-Physician Assistant, Emergency Medical Care or similar

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.5
  • Weighted HS GPA: SCUGP 4.8
  • Class Rank: non-ranking
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1260 SAT, 28 ACT

List your HS coursework

(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)

  • English: AP Literature
  • Math: AP Stat, DE Psychological Statistics
  • Science: AP Biology, DE Anatomy & Physiology
  • History and social studies: AP History, AP Government, AP Comp Gov
  • Language other than English: DE Spanish (3 courses)

College Coursework (Transfer Applicants)
(Include college courses taken while in high school if not included above.)

  • 6 AP and 14 DE courses

Awards - AP Scholar with Honors, Lander University Junior Fellow, PC Fellow, Converse University Junior Achiever, inductee to math, science, english, and history honor societies

Extracurriculars
volunteer at hospital - 2 hours per week

dance - competitive dancer for 14 years - leadership with assistant teaching - several years of awards (Most Disciplined Student, Most Respectful Senior, named scholarships) - 10 plus hours per week

Part-time job during school year - 10 hours per week

Interact Club - community service organization - active participant - 2 hours per week

Schools

Clemson - EA - honors college - hoping for Breakthrough or Clemson Scholar - will apply TO - health science major

FAU - EA - honors college - health science major

USF - honors college - public health major

ECU - EA - honors college - hoping for Brinkley Lane Scholarship - public science major

WCU - honors college - emergency medical care major

CCU - EA - honors college - public health major

Are there other colleges in SC, NC, or FL that you think she should add to her list?

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Congrats on your fine record.

On cost, worry less about merit but more about out of pocket cost.

A school that’s $90K that gives you $30K merit is more than a school that $40K full cost, etc.

For your list - I don’t see Clemson happening.

FAU - the Honors College is in Jupiter and is very small. It’s not in Boca. FAU is likely.

USF - target to reach

ECU - yes

WCU - yes

CCU - yes

Florida - FGCU

SC - U of SC, Francis Marion, Winthrop, Lander. C of C but housing is outrageously expensive.

NC - UNC Charlotte, UNCG are worth looks.

You don’t have GA on the list - but Georgia Southern could be interesting. And Georgia College and State U. And you don’t have TN - but how about ETSU.

Should she add - not necessarily. You have acceptances like WCU - and it’s a low cost school.

Good luck.

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update - unweighted GPA is a 3.64

I didn’t see a way to edit the original post

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Is there a hard limit on costs above which will not be possible to afford at all?

ACT to SAT Score Conversion Chart | ACT/SAT Concordance says that your 28 ACT is higher than your 1260 SAT at colleges that use the typical concordance tables.

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Furman has a stellar dance program, phenomenal pre-health including department of community engaged medicine, and gives great merit. Id certainly add to list and see if it makes the numbers in the spring when your family is making decisions.

Converse also has fine arts and has prehealth though it’s strength is in health administration.

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East Carolina has a large health sciences program. I believe USC-Upstate also has several related majors, and in-state tuition.

At almost any school you are going to be able to find a heath professions track. Public health is a less common program, although you seem to have found a large number of options. Very different college tracks so your daughter is going to have to pick one.

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I agree that it might be a good idea to add UNC Greensboro. OOS total costs are currently under $35,000 a year.

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If you’re open to going further afield geographically….

University of New Mexico offers LUE+ Scholarship (guaranteed) for your stats. OOS cost for tuition fees, housing & meals will be around $28K/year

UNM offers an Emergency Medical Services major where you will earn your paramedic (EMT-P) license along with your degree. Senior year will include all your clinical practicums. UNM’s EMS academy is the oldest and one of the best known EMS program in the country.

UNM’s dance program is outstanding and offers the ONLY flamenco dance major in the US.

ABQ has an international airport that is 15 minutes from campus which has 6 major airlines flying in and out of

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