What colleges give out good financial aid and scholarships?

Paying for College
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It doesn’t have to be full tuition, but pretty decent.

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This is a really broad question. What is your family’s financial situation? What are your stats and academic interests? Home state? Have you checked out the pinned threads at the top of this forum yet?

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My parents are separated. They both do not make very much money. They probably won’t be able to help very much with tuition. One of my uncles has a lot of money and mentioned helping me pay for college, but that is not a definite thing and it makes me uncomfortable to bring it up. I am really interested in going to grad school or med school, so I do not want to have a lot of financial debt before I even get to grad school and rack up even more debt. My school doesn’t really tell us our gpa’s until we get our transcripts (don’t have mine yet), so I have to estimated. For unweighted, it is probably between 3.65-3.8. For weighted, probably between 4.0-4.3. Like I said, these are estimates because our school doesn’t really inform us what they are or how they calculate them. I got an 1110 on my SAT. I know, not that great. I had a lot of problems junior year, and I didn’t really study for it. I am taking the ACT in July (expecting much better results). I am really interested in science and medicine. I’ll most likely be majoring in chemistry or biochemistry. But, I’ll probably minor or double major since I’m interested in multiple different science. I live around Pittsburgh, PA.

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First…free advice. Don’t minor or double major if you are a premed wannabe. It’s unnecessary. You want to pick ONE major and make sure you take the necessary courses for med school admissions…IF that ends up being your direction.

  1. You need to talk to BOTH parents and find out exactly what they WILL pay for you to attend college annually.
  2. You need a much better SAT or ACT score to be eligible for merit aid almost everywhere...or to be accepted to colleges with very generous need based aid. The ones that guarantee to meet full need tend to be more competitive.
  3. Look at the colleges at fairtest. Those are test optional schools. If the rest of your application is a strong one, you might consider applying to some of these colleges which do not require the SAT or ACT. One example that does meet full need is Bates...but you would need a strong application. There are others...so look there.

https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional

  1. Is there any chance you could start at a Penn State branch to which you could commute? And then transfer to the main campus to complete your degree?
  2. Look at some of the smaller, less known schools in Ohio...Kent State, Toledo, Cleveland State. See what they offer for merit awards...maybe...maybe you would get something from them.
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^^^
This!

Why possibly trip up your BCPM GPA or cum GPA by overloading yourself???

If you have COMFORTABLE ROOM in your schedule, then take a course or two for interest. No need to minor or double major…