<p>I posted a chance thread, but I’m more interested in knowing which admission plan I should go with
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1564960-stanford-scea-other-questions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1564960-stanford-scea-other-questions.html</a></p>
<p>With my stats
-Stanford SCEA (easily my top school and I’ve been working on the essays)
-Early Action at UoC, Caltech, MIT, Notre Dame to better spread out my chances
-Early Decision at Cornell, Duke, or Northwestern to ensure a much higher chance of admission</p>
<p>The full based aid these schools offer are very appealing to me, and it is needed. I feel the need to mass apply to these school and maybe end up in another major.</p>
<p>Berkeley, while a great school, is a public university and won’t be able to give me as much financial aid. Although, I don’t have a lot of knowledge on their scholarships.</p>
<p>I believe that UC schools (especially the top ones, UCLA - UCB) are very wierd with financial aid. I don’t think they would come to EVEN CLOSE to what you would get if you got into a top 10 private school in terms of money awarded. You would probably atleast have to pay upwards of 30-40k total. I know someone whos son got into a UC school, was great student, but was only given 5 grand in “aid” and he was middle class, his EPC is like 25 grand… You might wanna check up on the scholarships though. All I have heard is that top public schools (UCs, UNC, UVA) are very protective of their instate students so most of their resources go to them and its ALOT harder to get in as well alot harder to get a scholarship if you are otu of state.</p>
<p>I just went to their site and used the aid calculator(btw apparently it is law for a universities to have an aid calc on their website now) and they had me taking out loans of 22k per year in addition to work study. For out of state (IL), I’m going to stick to private schools.</p>