Some Ivy League schools give financial aid to families with incomes up to $150k.
I would fill out the FAFSA anyway, because if something should change in your family financially, she could file for financial aid in later years. some schools if you don’t apply for FA for Freshman, even if you don’t need it, that makes you ineligible for FA in later years.
@bopper, You posted in your well organized and thorough response (#15) that students should take 6 academic classes as freshmen and sophomores. I always thought the standard course load is 5 academic classes. If a student takes English, Math, Social Science, Science, and Foreign Language, what is the sixth academic class? Are you suggesting that kids double up on one of these both years? Are you suggesting that only one elective is advised?
Yes, it should be 5.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/2055289-faq-high-school-college-prep-base-curriculum.html
The standard load in many public HS in CA is five, maybe four freshman year as social sciences are not offered in ninth and PE is required, and most students fulfill their art requirements in ninth (someone mentioned art above as well). The sixth class is usually a second elective, business, CS, journalism, art, music, as long as the class is specified as college prep in the course handbook, you’re fine.
Here in NY my kids friends all took English, Math, Social Science, Science and Foreign Language for 3 year. Everyone took at least one Art Elective, but many took Arts all four years and got a special designation on their diploma. Phys Ed was required every year it met every other day, sometimes alternating with health (one year every other day) or the science labs which were every other day. My older son did both AP Comp Sci and his art requirement freshman year, so I guess he must have had seven slots. Senior year some kids drop science, others drop history. Somewhere they have to fit in the Government/Economics requirement which my oldest did with AP Econ which had a side dose of government, and my youngest did by passing an exam.
Hello parents,
firstly thank you to all of you for the guidance about college application process.
D applied to 6 colleges in Early Action (Pitt, Penn, Georgia tech, UNC, UMich, Rutgers)
Here are few additional details: Major: Computer Science ( second choice: Computer Engineering)
D has come up with a couple of colleges that she wants to apply for RD.
But she is reconsidering whether to apply as most colleges seems to have some amount of merit scholarships for only EA but not for RD.
Here are some colleges that she wants to apply:
University of Wisconsin,
University of Washington
Michigan state university
University of Washington has an application deadline of Nov 15th and that is surprising because a lot of colleges seem to accept applications till Jan 1st.
D does not want to apply to liberal arts colleges, or small universities.
Can you please advice some college names that D can apply to for Regular Admissions even if there is no chance of merit scholarships.
@learning19 - You still have time to apply for University of Southern California merit (they have half tuition, full tuition, even full tuition plus stipend). Top rated CS and Engineering schools. Also, Vanderbilt LOVES high SAT scores. Even without merit awards USC is pretty good with grants as well. My daughters at USC and it’s costing about the same as in-state UVA or William & Mary.
@learning19 - If you’ve already applied to Carnegie Mellon then you should already be familiar with the FAFSA and the CSS profile. I believe the private’s require both.
@learning19 - I don’t know what state you’re in but is that list of six all the colleges she’s applied? You might want to add some safeties as well.
You’re likely fine at Pitt and Rutgers. Penn obviously difficult. GA Tech low acceptance rate. Michigan also difficult OOS. UNC swings very heavy in state. UNC really does practice the “serving the state” first. OOS only makes up about 10-15% of the freshman class.
Wisconsin, Washington, and MSU also good options (my nephew received his acceptance letter today from MSU instate). Maybe add Illinois at Urbana Champaign as well.
I think it’s Penn St, as Penn is ED, not EA.