^^^^Was typing while thumper was posting!!
Thanks @EconPop for some more info.
Is his 3.4 weighted or unweighted. Is his 4 APs so far or includes next year/senior year? If he is looking at Howard is he a URM? Has he taken the ACT?
Is the summer business program free? Did he apply to any Upward-Bound programs? Has he taken AP Micro or Macro? Where is he at math-wise? What else is he doing this summer? Tennis is for his high school?
He is thinking Econ does he have any career ideas? Mine was an econ major and pre-med. Music as a double major or minor or just wants it as a hobby/EC? Psych as a major/minor or career?
Read some of the posts on this forum to get an idea of how financial aid works. Versus how merit aid works. Federal aid is assessed by the FAFSA which will provide info regarding eligibility for Pell, subsidized loans, SEOG and work-study. Institutional aid is derived from the FAFSA info and the Profile. Some schools use their own financial aid forms in lieu of the Profile.
Also many schools will infer a student’s summer contribution in the aid package. Each school will have its own figure. Some school’s can waive this in the initial offer and other’s can do so after matriculation.
I am thinking others will read this and starting making suggestions!
Mine applied to many schools using the school’s waivers, NACAC app fee waivershttps://www.nacacnet.org/globalassets/college-fair–homepage/ncf-documents/applicationfeewaiverform.pdf , SAT college app fee waivers https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/college-application-fee-waiver-directory.pdf, and Ventures Scholars fee waivers http://www.venturescholar.org/portals/feewaiver.php.
Using these fee waivers lifted the heavy burden of app fees on our family. The children’s acceptances were varied as were the respective aid packages. They ended up at in-state public, OOS public, LAC, ivy and service academy. Some accessed our local community colleges and some had a combo of in-state and OOS and in-state and an ivy. So it wasn’t one size fits all.
I have opinions on some of the school’s you have mentioned, financial aid and what y’all are looking for, especially here in NC and on the west coast since that is where we moved from. I do have some favs…
Kat