Match a Rising Senior!

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Congratulations on all of your work in high school! Below is a list of schools with my guesses as to what your chances of admission might be. Make sure you run the Net Price Calculator at any school you’re considering. If it asks for your academic stats, it is likely to include the minimum level of merit aid you might expect. Colleges that are a part of the Colleges That Change Lives organization are indicated with a CTCL.

Extremely Likely (80-99+%)

  • Lawrence (WI): Meets 97% of need as they define it, and seems more generous than many others. CTCL
  • Lycoming (PA ): Meets 92% of need

Likely (60-79%)

  • Simmons (MA) – women’s college. Extremely likely for acceptance, but due to finances moved to Likely. Meets 85% of need as it calculates, on average, but with the strength of your application, I think you stand a very decent chance at getting quite a generous price after scholarships and any financial aid)
  • College of Wooster (OH): Meets 93% of financial need. CTCL
  • Knox (IL): Meets 93% of need CTCL

Toss-Up (40-59%)

  • Kenyon (OH): meets full need
  • Lafayette (PA ): meets full need, but perhaps not very generously. Run the NPC.
  • Franklin and Marshall (PA ): meets full need, but I’m not sure how generous they are in defining need.
  • Connecticut College: meets full need, but like F&M, make sure you’re running the NPC here.
  • Mount Holyoke (MA): women’s college, meets full need, probably more generous than others in this category
  • Union (NY): meets full need
  • Dickinson (PA ): met 99% of need; probably one of the more generous schools in this category

Low Probability (20-39%)

  • Colgate (NY): meets full need
  • Smith (MA): meets full need
  • Wake Forest (NC): meets full need
  • Bryn Mawr (PA ): For admission I think it’s a toss-up, but in looking at the net price for families under $75k, it seems this might have a lower shot of hitting your budget number. Definitely run the Net Price Calculator here (as well as at all schools you’re considering, but especially here)
  • Macalester: Met 97% of need

Lower Probability (less than 20%)

  • Wellesley (MA)- women’s college, meet’s full need
  • Carleton (MN): meets full need