Match Me: Trans Senior with low budget, good scores [TX resident, 3.46 GPA, not top 6%, 33 ACT, 1460 SAT, <$10k from parents (no need based aid); psychology, linguistics, philosophy, history]

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Same here. Ectopic pregnancy, premature rupture of membranes with infection, severe pregnancy-induced hypertension are just three things I can think of, off the top of my head, that could require an emergency abortion, with the woman not medically stable enough to travel to a state that offers abortion. Getting pregnant while living in a state that has prohibited abortions is gambling with your own life.

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Threads here tend to attract the appropriate people to answer (there are some looking for conservative Christian colleges for example
I would ignore those as I assume those people would ignore this; people are here to help, not argue). As the parent of a biological female who identifies as nb I can sympathize with you totally, red states and their reproductive rights/lgbtq laws are off the table for us college-wise but we are lucky to live in a blue state. I don’t really have useful info to add but I think the others here have come up with some interesting possible options so I just want to say best of luck. I hope you will keep us updated with where your child ends up.

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Good luck to your child on their school search. My daughter is applying to schools right now only in blue places. :blue_heart: I don’t have a school recommendation but do have a piece of advice.

One thing to calculate when working with a limited budget and looking out of state is the extra costs associated with travel.
My son is at a school 9 hours away. He’s in a rural area an hour from an airport and doesn’t have a car at school. We didn’t really calculate the nitty gritty details and related costs of getting him to and from school, to/from airport (50+ dollars each way), flight costs, the need to stay in a hotel to see him (when driving for drop off/pick up we would drive 9 hours, stay in a hotel and drive 9 hours back the next day). We easily spent well over a thousand dollars on top of tuition/room/board last school year related to travel. We were fortunately able to afford this, but as it kept adding up over the year, it was sort of shocking.

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