<p>I’m a senior in high school in a town of less than 15k in central Missouri. I’m the ‘work hard, party hard’ type. I’m undecided on a major…probably business, polisci, or history. I want to go to law school after undergrad.</p>
<p>Quick stats:
Bio - White male, parents have middle - upper middle income
ACT - 32
Class rank - #1
GPA - 4.0 unweighted
EC’s - #1 player varsity tennis, varsity soccer, youth in gov., missouri scholars academy, boys state, 1.5yrs working at Walgreens 15hrs/wk, NHS, NFL debater, National Merit Commended, etc.</p>
<p>School’s I’ve been looking at:
Mizzou (dad works there, half off in-state tuition haha)
UVa</p>
<p>Those are the only two I’m for sure applying to…others I’ve tossed around are:
Stanford
Yale
Dartmouth
UPenn
Georgetown</p>
<p>Any suggestions on schools I should be looking at? Any comments on the ones I listed?</p>
<p>You need another safety/financial safety since you sound like you don’t want to go to Mizzou since dad works there. The rest of your choices are reaches for everyone… including UVa for out-of-state students (it’s hard to get accepted to UVa as an OOS).</p>
<p>You would get free tuition at University of Alabama as an OOS student with your stats (including all OOS fees). You’d also get Honors College acceptance. UA has a strong business department… Culverhouse - [The</a> Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration](<a href=“http://www.cba.ua.edu/]The”>http://www.cba.ua.edu/)
and, of course, UA has a law school…but you may want to go Ivy or Ivy-like for law school.</p>
<p>BTW…how much are your parents going to pay? Your current choices will run about $60k per year (and rising each year). Do they (and you) know that??? Will they also pay for law school? Or, is it better that you save money with undergrad (but still go to a good school), so that they will help you with law school?</p>
<p>Location - Nice weather is a plus, but some place with all four seasons is just fine too. I’m from Missouri mind you haha.</p>
<p>Size - I’m less concerned with student body size, and more concerned with city size. I’d prefer somewhere bigger than my hometown (15k). Doesn’t have to be huge though.</p>
<p>Price - Places that I can get merit based scholarships or places with good financial aid are a plus. My parents will pay for what they can, but I have to figure out the rest.</p>
<p>By the way, essays will be one of the best parts of my application. Somewhere that looks at them as very important is good.</p>
<p>Duke is a good one. I don’t care for Vandy. No on 'Bama. Northwestern sounds ok. And yeah, I feel like applying to Yale might be a waste of my money because I am very doubtful I’d get accepted. I like Mizzou perfectly alright for undergrad and I will be just fine if I end up going there since it will be virtually free.</p>
<p>Norte Dame, Penn State-Schreyer Honor college, UM-Twin Cities (rock-bottom tuition OOS), Tulane, and Case Western may make good larger options that would be easy on the wallet. Otherwise, take a careful look at those midwestern LAC’s.</p>
<p>I second the U of Miami. They have a great business program and good weather. They also have given great merit aid in the past. They have changed their website on merit aid and now it says that you need a 1350 SAT or 31 ACT to qualify. Based on last years scale, a student with your stats would have received $24,000 a year in merit aid. They give out more aid if you apply early action and I do not know how they will be with aid this year. Really, all the schools that give merit aid will probably go through some changes this year due to huge losses in their endowment portfolios.</p>