Today I kinda came to the realization that I only planned on majoring in business because my dad told me to. I don’t like business or know anything about it. I took both Computer Science APs in high school and liked them enough, and I’d rather do that. The issue is my college list isn’t really catered toward that. I am on somewhat of a budget for most schools and my list isn’t conducive to CS.
Also - im a national merit semifinalist and I don’t qualify for any need based merit money
Rutgers (In state, don’t really want to go here)
Penn State (rutgers but out of state and more expensive)
Fordham (national merit full tuition, but CS is awful here)
Boston U (Good for CS, but I’d need the NMF scholarship to afford)
Northeastern (Really good for CS, but I’d need the NMF scholarship to afford)
Boston College (only applying to shoot my shot for their full ride thing which im not getting)
Indiana (rutgers but out of state and more expensive)
Princeton (my stats aren’t good enough to get in)
UNC (already applied as a business major, out of state, hard to get into)
I know Rutgers is fine, but I really don’t want to go in-state for school. My parents don’t want to pay more than 50k really for anything, and only wanna pay near that value if its way better than my state flagship (rutgers)
It’s too late to add other schools early action to my list like Maryland (top 8 CS) because of my school’s transcript request forms. I could apply regular decision, but then I wouldn’t be eligible for any scholarships because it isn’t early action (or is it the november 1st deadline in general, even if regular)? My schools aren’t really oriented toward my major and I already have a budget restriction. Could I even get a scholarship from maryland?
Please help I don’t know what to do and I have so much homework and no time to think about it. I just really don’t think I want to major in business at all. My stats are below
SAT: SAT - 1550 (790 RW, 760 Math) took it once
UW/W GPA and Rank: School doesn’t do class rank, 4.5766 weighted GPA, 3.96 UW
Coursework: 10 APS
- AP Comp Sci A -5
- AP Comp Sci Principles - 5
- AP Bio - 5
- APUSH - 5
- AP Calc AB
- AP Latin
- AP Stat
- AP Psych
- AP Lit
- AP Physics 1
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist in NJ, 3x Summa Cum Laude (4.3WGPA >), AP Scholar with Honor, NJ Latin Seal of Biliteracy
Extracurriculars:
- Cross Country (9-12): 2x varsity letter winner, senior line leader, won a “character award”; led younger runners on race day, 16hrs/14 wk
- Indoor Track (9-12): Senior line leader, JV for rest 16hrs/14wk
- Outdoor Track (9-12): Senior line leader, JV, raced in relays, team qualified for MOCs (not me), 16hrs/14wk
- Local tutoring through church organization for displaced kids (11-12) (2hrs/28wk)
- Virtual tutoring for low-income families through club at school (10-12) (2hr/22wk)
- Self Taught Guitarist - Taught myself to play, read chord charts, music theory, practice every single day, played/jammed with a band (9-forever) (14hrs/52wk)
- Summer job as slide attendant at local pool (11th grade summer)
- Chess Club member, attended meetings and played games at lunch (sort of a throwaway tbh, 9-12) (1hr/18wk)
Essays/LORs/Other: I think my essay was strong, LORs should be pretty good
please help