Need Help for Son's college search

Karensue2
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:23:08 +0000

My son is very ambivalent during this college search. He has no idea what he wants to study, where he wants to go. The only real feedback is that he wants a campus. I am advising him to study Business, hopefully accounting. I do not want to push him into something he is not really interested in. He has fairly good grades -top 10% of graduating class with a 3.7 unweighted and 4.0 weighted average, many AP’s and honors, SAT 1370 on 2 tests and 1990 overall, has decent extra curricular activities. He is applying to the following schools:

Rutgers
TCNJ
U of Delaware
Binghamton
Drexel U (not much of a campus, probably not really interested but no fee to apply)

We probably will not qualify for any financial aide, and not willing to pay $50,000 plus per year. So if he doesn’t get merit aide from private schools, he will go public. I think we need to apply to more schools, and would like to have some reach schools. I don’t think he wants to travel too far from home (3-4 hrs max). We live in Central NJ near Rutgers. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.