Match me - Florida senior aiming for political science and Ivy or equivalent [3.92 GPA, 35 ACT, <$65k]

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@tsbna44

I’ll reiterate OP needs a budget.

I’m going to talk to my parents more in-depth about financials and get back to everyone. I apologize for not really understanding how it works.

EDIT to include multiple replies to other comments, sorry.

@DadTwoGirls

As one example, since you have MIT as only a “like”, and given the extent to which it is a very academically demanding school which is a good fit for some strong students but a bad fit for some other strong students, I might be tempted to drop it from the list.

Thanks for this. It really changed the way that I thought about making my list. I’ve narrowed it down to the following (removed three or four):

Wake Forest
FSU
Harvard
Cornell
Duke
UT Austin
UNC Chapel Hill
Stanford
Princeton
Columbia
Georgetown
UF

@AustenNut

For people who are interested in public policy, I am partial to capitals (state and federal) as there tend to be a lot of opportunities available. Since we don’t know the budget yet, I focused mostly (though not exclusively) on schools where merit aid is available, even if only to a select few.

Thanks for this list!

@kevi2900

You need to recalculate your weighted GPA.

I recalculated based on this GPA Recalc Form (Full GPA Recalc)

No idea if it is correct but it seems to be what you said the calculations should be. I took three HS honors classes in MS, should I add those in? Without them, and with only up to the end of junior year, the WGPA with only core classes (no electives, even ones that are dual enrolled because its only supposed to be core classes, right?) is 4.7/5. (70.5 total/15 credits)