Match me for fall 26; <$45k; business/social justice?

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Also quick question. If you do early decision and don’t like the price can you back out,? Will prob do early action UMass and Richmond. Ea not offered much anymore…

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If the NPC results show affordability prior to applying and the ultimate FA offer is close to that…no, it’s not ok to back out of ED. If the actual offer isn’t close to the NPC, that would be a reason to back out.

It doesn’t seem like your student is an ideal candidate for ED because finances are a primary focus, perhaps the primary focus, of the college search.

Do EA at all the schools on the list that offer it. Take a look at some rolling and/or direct admission schools too.

Two notes on NPCs:

  1. Keep screenshots of all inputs and results
  2. NPCs may not be accurate if parents are divorced, own a business, and/or own real estate beyond a primary home…are any of those the case for you?
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Just to throw some outliers out there, you may want to consider Texas schools if he’s looking for school spirit and a party scene. TCU and SMU both give good merit, have excellent business schools. SMU was the most generous school for us for aid out of the 14 schools my son applied to.

Another thought would be Trinity University in San Antonio for a smaller liberal arts school. One of the best merit packages around imo, out of region would give you a good bump and their business school is ranked highly. Decent D3 athletics too but not the school spirit of an SMU or TCU.

Anyway, Texas may be too far afield but there are some good options there and good job opportunities for grads.

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Thank you ! #2 doesn’t apply

Will keep screenshots and do EA at UMass , Richmond and any others that offer

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And any NPC results you get now are for students entering college fall of 2025…and that is not your student!

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Could you please clarify your price point. Your title originally said $30,000. I see that someone changed that to $30k to $60k. Is this accurate for your family?

These costs are very different. Please look at your family finances, and figure out what you can reasonably afford each year for undergrad school.

$60,000 a year opens up different application doors. There are way more colleges where your family has the potential to meet that price point.

So…are we now suggesting colleges that could cost $60,000 a year?

Please clarify!

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Let’s say 35k is umass. Can go to 45 for private

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Did you change the dollar amount in your title to this thread…again.

Are you now saying the max you will spend is $45,000 but ONLY for private colleges, not public universities that might have excellent programs?

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I changed the title based on the OP’s post saying…

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Thanks ! Burned at IU ( zero aid for student with tremendous stats) which is why shying away from public university outside of home state . Hope that helps! So looking at UMass and will paste updated list based on the great feedback on this thread :thread:

Also far away gets real expensive with flights and 15 hour drives each way…

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Or has HC changed their definition of “applied”? Perhaps they are looking at started applications, rather than complete applications, now.

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Good point….so many ways to play with the numbers and acceptance rates!

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Boston College
Bryant College
Bucknell
Colgate
Connecticut college
Dickinson
Gettysburg
Hobart & William Smith
Holy Cross
Lafeyette
Lehigh
Providence College
St Joseph’s
Stonehill College
Syracuse U
Trinity College
U of RIchmond
UMass Amherst (Isenberg or Honors College or )
Union
VIllanova
Washington and lee
Wesleyan

New list!! Should I remove Wesleyan and Colgate ? Like to have a few reach. Also is BC now reach? Seems to have a crazy low acceptance rate . Same with nova.

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All colleges are asked to publish their 25% and 75% percentile SAT scores. I think you have a number of them which report their 25% scores as above 1400, including BC, Villanova, Wesleyan, and Colgate, so they would all be reaches. Nothing wrong with that. But reaches are often more stingy with merit aid, which is needed to get the price down. When you see colleges reporting their numbers in the 1100s-1200s and 1200s-1300s, those are the tiers where schools are competing for good students and more merit aid is offered. Especially with your daughter’s grades/scores. Good luck!

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I doubt that they’re using a different formula. I think it’s just become a hot school. The Common Data Set has pretty clear directions about what does/doesn’t count (and it indicates that applications need to be completed), and I believe the CDS information is the same that is input into IPEDS.

Below is the language from Holy Cross’s CDS.

image: Snip from Common Data Set C1: Applications: First-time, First-year Students: Provide the number of degree‐seeking, first‐time, first‐year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full‐ or part‐time) in Fall 2023. ‐ Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. ‐ Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, non‐admission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). ‐ Admitted applicants should include wait‐listed students who were subsequently offered admission.
image: Snip from Common Data Set C1: Applications: First-time, First-year Students: Provide the number of degree‐seeking, first‐time, first‐year students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full‐ or part‐time) in Fall 2023. ‐ Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. ‐ Applicants should include only those students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (i.e., who completed actionable applications) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, non‐admission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). ‐ Admitted applicants should include wait‐listed students who were subsequently offered admission.1319×380 30.6 KB

And a link to the last several CDS: Office of Institutional Research & Analytics | College of the Holy Cross

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Is she the editor-in-chief of the main student newspaper?

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Opinion editor not main

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Yes, unless they are dream schools which they don’t appear to be..

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For anyone researching this thread in the future- the current HC administration has been successful in explaining and promoting the benefits of a selective LAC in the Jesuit tradition (like Georgetown, Fordham or BC without grad students) and the increased national and international interest has resulted in more applications. HC has been a rigorous and excellent college for a long time. The rankings and low acceptance rates are just catching up to what they probably should have been a while ago.

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