@bouders I just realized I forgot to list my awards, oops. I was actually a Quest Bridge college prep scholar my junior year and won two of their Quest for Excellence Awards. I was also a National college match finalist during my senior year this year. I planned on looking at some of their partner colleges again for ideas.
Seconding an extra recommendation from one of your volunteer supervisors (perhaps one from SA and one from CityYear), to upload as ‘other recommender’.
Case Western, Northwestern, HarveyMudd
Columbia Seas, Penn M&T (?) - also reaches
NCSU if you apply before Oct 15
Safeties : Marist ?
Perhaps Pitt; U Cincinnati Honors with co-op; UMass Amherst; UMN Twin cities = you’d need merit scholarships and they’re competitive but you’d have a good shot at most.
Demonstrate interest (fill out request info form)
Have you looked at some of the SEC schools? Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina all offer pretty aggressive merit awards to high achieving out of state students. The Honors College at South Carolina has a great reputation and lots of reasources for students and exposure to small classes. May be worth looking into.
Georgia is a really good SEC school that gives merit aid
@TTG WPI sounds really neat. Their global focus ties in really well with what I want to do with computer science. Thanks!
@MYOS1634 Thanks for the suggestions! Added them to the list.
@BearcatFan2 I’m not sure what SEC schools are, actually, but I’ll definitely take a look at the ones you suggested.
@uncreativename SEC just stands for South Eastern Confernce. It’s a college sports confernce, like Ivy League, ACC, Big 10 etc. I don’t know why they do, but we have noticed though 2 rounds of college searches, that the state schools in the SEC seem to be generous with merit aide to out of state students. Some others, besides the ones I mentioned, would be U of Kentucky and U of Tennessee.
@BearcatFan2 Sorry for the late response. I will look into UKentucky and UTennessee as well. Thank you.
Does anyone know of any schools that have a connection with NASA? I was selected to participate in an 8-month NASA internship (which I am going to take over the volunteering opportunity), and the project is something that I would like to continue working on in the future. Thanks!
UIUC?
Embry Riddle has lots of ties, Texas A & M, Purdue
U Houston, UCF
University of Maryland, College Park is among the top-notch CS schools and has strong ties with NASA as the distance between the two is less than 30 minutes. They collaborate together a lot. I think you can get into UMD (match/low-match school for you) as its CS program is (fortunately) not an LEP (limited enrollment program) yet.