More rain on the UK parade: no meaningful financial aid at UCL or Oxford, and not enough at St Andrews.
One thing that people who do ‘chance me’ threads almost never do is tell what they are lookig for from a college. You have a list of familiar names- all usual suspects for independent school students!. An English/History student being sold on the core at UChic & Columbia scans. But what about the others? What do you think you want from your college experience- looks like urban might be a metric?
Further- and this will be hard- you are chasing $$. Your choices are either:
- colleges that will meet your full need- so you need to run the NPCs on their websites to make sure that they agree with your parents idea of affordable. There are big schools that meet full need- you have some on your list and there are others- but you first need to make sure that the numbers work.
OR
- colleges that want your stats enough to pay for them. Not sure how a 3.5-3.75 and a (projected) 4.0 comes out to a 3.9? Your school may not rank, but you can bet that those schools on your list will get enough info from the school profile to know whether you are at the top of your class or not. Anyway, from your SSAT you probably test well so you could have some a decent shot as some of the full-ride schools- but you (and your parents) would have to get your head around schools that you probably think are beneath you. There is legitimate pride to be taken in being so desirable a student that a university will simply give you a college education.