<p>*can afford something in the 30,000/year range, so I would apply for merit aid at private schools. *</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>At the privates that you’re considering your scores are too low for merit…and some of those don’t give ANY merit. </p>
<p>Umich costs $50k+ for OOS and you won’t get merit there either.</p>
<p>Where are you thinking that you’d get merit?? At privates you’d need about $25k per year in merit to get costs down to $30k…where would you get that much???</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you can’t get merit as some schools, but not at the ones that you’re looking at. Yes, Bama would give you free tuition plus 2500 per year for your M+CR SAT…but Bama is the highest ranked school that would give you a lot of merit.</p>