~Need Safety School Suggestions~

College Search & Lists
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<p>Hello everyone! I am currently a rising Senior going to a pretty good MA public school. I plan on majoring in chemistry. </p>

<p>Requirements:</p>

<p>3,000 or more students
No farther west than Colorado
Preferably good sports program (but this isn’t a big deal)
Less than 50k a year
Public or Private</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>Freshman GPA: 3.2 UW/ 3.3 W
Sophomore GPA: 3.8 UW/ 4.07 W
Junior GPA: 3.94 UW/4.15 W</p>

<p><em>Cumulative GPA: 3.66 UW/ 3.83 W</em></p>

<p>SAT: 2100 (M: 740 CR: 680 W: 680)</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>

<p>Interact Club (2 years)
Chess Club (2 years)
VP sophomore year
P.A.W.S. Club (3 years)
Freshman soccer team
Club soccer (14 years)
Indoor soccer (7 years)
Soccer referee (2 years)
Head and assistant referee
Summer work at library (2 years)
~300 hours of volunteer work w/ animal shelter (1 year)
Head of friday night volunteers
Over 100 hours of volunteer work w/ organization that teaches disabled kids how to play sports (3 years)
Leadership position
20 hours of misc. volunteer work
National Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society</p>

<p>Course Load:</p>

<p>Honors American Literature
Honors Biology
Honors Chemistry I
Honors Chemistry II
Honors Spanish IV
Honors Spanish V
Honors Physics
Honors Expository Writing
Honors American History I
Honors Economics(senior year)
Honors Psychology
AP Physics (senior year)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics (senior year)
Honors Calculus (senior year)</p>

<p>Thanks in advance and I will chance back!</p>

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<p>University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

  • over 31,000 students
  • east of Colorado
  • Roll Tide Roll
  • about $35,000 per year out of state list price, but you would automatically get the Presidential Scholarship (full out of state tuition for 3.5 GPA and 32 ACT or 1400 SAT CR+M) to reduce it to about $15,000 per year
  • public</p>

<p>It has a major program in chemistry, or chemical engineering if you want likely better job and career prospects in a related major.</p>

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<p>Will you be pre-med or will you be grad-school bound for a career in research?</p>

<p>As UCB mentions, Bama will give you assured free tuition for your stats. The apps (school and scholarship) are live now. Bama has a new mega-sized Science and Eng’g Complex. The campus is gorgeous and the people are friendly. Over 60% of this year’s incoming frosh class is from OOS because of the school’s agressive recruiting and merit scholarships. Over 500 frosh each year enroll with that full tuition scholarship.</p>

<p>That Presidential full tuition scholarship is worth about $90,000. The scholarship does increase in value with any tuition increases…so that’s reassuring.</p>

<p>The Honors College at Bama is very organized, has amazing offerings, and you’d be admitted with your stats. The honors housing is also very nice…private bedrooms within 4 bedroom/2bathroom super suites with living rooms and kitchenettes.</p>

<p>UCB mentions 31,000 students…that includes the grad and law students. The undergrad number is around 25,000.</p>

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<p>Note that the full tuition scholarship at Alabama is even better if you major in chemical engineering (or other engineering) – add $2,500 per year.</p>

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<p>Tell us your reach and match schools and what your selection criteria were and we can suggest less selective comparables.</p>

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<p>James Madison University in Virginia would be a good safety for you. Your stats are way above the average, and yet it’s still rated one of the top Universities in the South. I’ve been to the campus and it’s fantastic. Very large and pretty, with lots to choose from. Princeton Review also rated it as 5th best for food in the nation. Tuition is around 36,000 a year out of state. </p>

<p>George Mason University would also be a good safety school for you as well. It’s in the DC metro area.</p>

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<p>UMass Amherst is your logical instate safety.</p>

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<p>^^^
Since we don’t know what the family will pay, it’s hard to know whether an instate flagship is really a safety. </p>

<p>UMass has a COA of nearly $26k per year. </p>

<p>More and more students are finding that their instate flagships are not safeties even if they are rather sure of admissions, simply because most state schools do not meet need or their families have unaffordable EFCs.</p>

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<p>OP did say “Less than 50k a year” which is the presumed price limit.</p>

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<p>Some of my matches are Ohio State, Purdue, Penn State, UConn, Pitt, and Binghamton. I was considering UMass (as it is in-state). I will definitely look into James Madison and University of Alabama. Ideally, I would like a college, with a COA less than 50k per year. I’m not sure my family could afford much more than that.</p>

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<p>Talk to your parents. You need a clear picture of what they will pay. Families with good incomes sometimes can’t pay as much as students think they can. </p>

<p>When you ask your parents how much they’ll pay for college each year, make sure both parents are present. Sometimes one parent is far more optimistic about how much they can pay than the other.</p>

<p>Another thing…a school like PSU would expect you to pay all OOS costs. Some parents will refuse to pay the high OOS costs for a public univ. I think the only merit scholarships PSU gives is for those in their honors college, and the amount of the merit award is quite low…under $5k per year.</p>

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<p>**National Buckeye Scholarship for non-Ohio residents **</p>

<pre><code>Award amount
$10,000 ($40,000 four–year value)

Criteria
Ohio State is committed to enrolling a diverse and talented student population. The National Buckeye Scholarship is awarded on a competitive basis to non-Ohio students required to pay the out-of-state surcharge who are admitted to the Columbus campus for autumn semester. Those considered rank in the top 40 percent of their graduating classes and have ACT composite scores of 28 or higher or combined SAT Critical Reading and Math scores of 1260 or higher.

Notes:

Except where noted, the National Buckeye Scholarship can be combined with any other merit scholarships, as long as the combined total does not exceed the total cost of an Ohio State education.
This award is renewable for a maximum of eight semesters (or the equivalent) of full-time undergraduate enrollment, provided the recipient maintains a 2.5 or higher GPA (earned by no later than the end of the first year), and nonresident classification remains unchanged.

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<p>Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry (CBEC) Building</p>

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<p>Geographic diversity (Columbus campus, autumn 2011)
Ohio State enrolls students from every state and territory. States with the highest enrollment:</p>

<p>500+: Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, California, Michigan
300 – 499: Texas, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia
100 – 299: Florida, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Utah, Minnesota, Missouri, Arizona, Tennessee, Connecticut
50 – 99: West Virginia, Washington, Colorado, South Carolina, Kansas</p>

<p>Best of Luck for you & Go Bucks!! :)</p>

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