What other schools should I look at? LACs?

mamabear232
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 22:20:50 +0000

Utah checks a lot of your boxes. Regarding affordability, it changed the criteria for its presidential scholarship this year - it’s less generous but there seem to be more of them awarded. If you got one, your cost would be around 20-25K/year. It seemed to take forever for scholarship info to be released this year but maybe in a non or less COVID year, it would be different.

Your stats would qualify you for in-state tuition at U of NM where nearby outdoor opportunities abound. Annual cost would be similar. UNM might be a good safety for you because it has rolling admissions and automatic merit for stats. You’d know about admissions and costs early on and that takes a lot of pressure off. It would probably be a better bet than TX State.

Another public option in a stunning location where you might have a chance of merit aid is Western Washington in Bellingham.

For LACs, if you want to stay in the west near outdoor recreation you could try Colorado College (Colorado Springs), Whitman (Walla Walla, WA), and U of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA). Colorado College is highly selective - applying EA provides a boost. Whitman is probably a match/low reach and Puget Sound would be a match.