Safety LACs

ucbalumnus
Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:19:52 +0000

zkreines:

DadTwoGirls:

To be a “safety”, a school has to be affordable.

I’m not quite sure if I understand what you mean by this. All the schools I’ve looked at are basically the same price, because they are all private liberal arts schools. I live in California so I have the UCs, but they are very different to the liberal arts kind of school I am interested in. Are there some private liberal arts schools that are cheaper than others?

Their prices may vary for you. Run the net price calculator on each college’s web site to check what its financial aid and net price may look like. Remember, you can only borrow $5.5k first year (increasing slightly later years), so you need to know what your parents will contribute. Also, if affordability for a given college depends on a merit scholarship, reach/match/likely/safety depends on the scholarship, not admission.

Also, there are public LACs which may be relatively lower priced and not that selective. See http://coplac.org/members/ . Examples:

University of Minnesota - Morris
Truman State University
New College of Florida
SUNY Geneseo
Sonoma State University (in-state for you)
Fort Lewis College (WUE discount)