We know nothing about the budget - what if the family can pay but isn’t willing?
Until we understand budget, any recommendations are too early. Plus, I’m guessing Chicago might fall into this list -
Would like to avoid upper-mid-tier privatee, e.g., Tufts, BC, emory, WashU)
I think your SAT score and GPA are OK…but not perhaps for the most elite (and generous with aid) colleges.
Do you want suggestions for schools that are perhaps not as near to cities where you might garner more aid?
Since you say your parents aren’t contributing anything towards college, I again ask…how do you intend to pay for college?
Williams, Middlebury, Amherst, Hamilton, Claremont McKenna.
I’m probably reading more into this than I should, but the OP seems only interested in HYPMS and adjacent brands. Maybe, his parents would be full-pay. Maybe not. Money tends not to be an issue when it comes to the top Ivies.
OP, none of these schools are Matches in the way it is used on these pages. Even if we throw in Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn and Columbia for good measure, you’d be facing a dozen universities with single-digit admissions rates - mainly because there are thousands of kids across the planet who all have the same short list. If U Maryland is your safety, and paraphrasing the immortal words of Lin-Manuel Miranda - go ahead and shoot your shots - all 12 of them.
You might be confusing this with the person from the West with a 2.8. I don’t believe this person has given any financial info.
Oh right.
@demiraslsas again we all ask…how much can and will your parents pay annually for you to attend college?
Chicago IS a little more generous, and Would definetly consider applying.
thanks, that’s really helpful
max 50-60k total COA
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Deleted - answered as I was typing.
I just said 50-60k, my family is upper-middle-class (between 250-400k) yearly income
so any colleges in mind?
There’s a big difference between $250K and $400K. Some may give a little aid (like a Princeton) at $250K. $400K - no way. And then there are assets - if they have any level of assets, you are getting nothing.
So at $60K, you need to find schools that give merit.
The Econ Olympiad is great as is the rigor but the Bs stand out. You’d like to avoid schools like Tufts, BC, Emory, WashU - so does that mean you want to go above?
You won’t be able to afford those mid tier schools or above.
And I’m not sure you’d get in.
But you need to find schools that give merit.
So I’m thinking these where you need no merit:
Florida - match
Georgia - match
Georgia Tech (reach)
South Carolina (Honors) - you’d have merit for sure
Charleston - here, you’d want to get Fellows (reach) - where you’d be part of a small group in Honors - that gets lots of enrichment. Without, it’d be at the top of budget and too pricey when off campus although you’d likely get small merit - but you wouldn’t likely want to attend if you didn’t get Charleston Fellows.
Where you might consider that requires merit to get to your cost:
Brandeis - I think you could get to $60K with merit but not assured. Likely.
Case Western - I think you could get to $60K with merit but not assured. Match - you’d need to express interest
Davidson - reach, because you’d need the Belk scholarship - but high target admission
Franklin & Marshall - likely - need enough merit
Furman - safety - likely to get enough merit
George Washington - Safe - but you need enough merit
Grinnell - target - I think you’d get in because of who you are and where you are from - and merit is possible but you’d need.
Kenyon - safety - need enough merit
Lafayette - likely - need enough merit
Macalester - likely, need enough merit
Minnesota - safety - will achieve with merit
Pitt - safety - need merit
Richmond - target but need merit. Could happen.
Syracuse - I think you could get to $60K with merit but not assured. Safety.
W&L - reach, because you’d need the Johnson scholarship - but low reach admission
W&M - target - but need merit - possible but not likely
Vandy - reach - but you said you don’t want a Wash U type - they have tuition scholarships but they’re unlikely to happen.
Of course, you have your in state schools like UMD, UMBC, Salisbury. And you might put UMD above many that I’ve listed - and it’s a fine school for a large public.
Given your budget, these are the types of schools you might look into. I don’t see the creme de la creme as necessarily admissible but even if they were, you’d be $40K short a year unless your parents raised the budget.
I should add - there are many LACs and other state schools taht would achieve your budget - and you could get down to low $20Ks at named flagships.
And I would somehow weave your Etirea / URM story into your app somehow.
Good luck.
Fine school but they gave 57 merit offers, averaging $16K. That’s out of 1786 kids.
If you’re a Chicago resident, you can do better.
Their COA is is $103K with tuition, fees, room and board alone right at $100K.
So the odds of them getting to $60K are slim to none…if they were lucky enough to get in.
If your parents can pay $60,000 a year for college, there are lots of options.
All of the instate Maryland public universities will be at that cost point.
Look at University of Delaware, and some of the SUNY schools.
Where geographically would you like to be?
It doesn’t sound like the family will qualify for need based aid, and University of Chicago will likely exceed their price point.
But they can run the net price calculator…and see what it gives.
Are you a US domestic or international student?
these are mostly safties no? I can try to take out a loan for the 30k, granted the school is good enough.
