a friend’s son got very sick while at Purdue last year. There is a new hospital in Lafayette, IN and he received excellent treatment there. The family thought all the doctors at the hospital were excellent.
Yes it is a little more than an hour drive from the Indianapolis airport to Purdue, however, there are always students driving back and forth from campus to Indianapolis, so it is usually very easy to get a ride with someone. I know quite a few current Purdue students who don’t drink and they don’t seem to have any problems there.</p>
<p>^Yes. I live in Lafayette and our doctors are fine. It’s not so much of a hick town that we don’t have quality medical care. I have always felt well cared for by doctors.</p>
<p>Not drinking is also not a problem. I don’t drink and go to Purdue, no big deal. It’s the same as at any other college - drink if you want, ,don’t if you’d rather not.</p>
<p>Proximity to the airport is always up to the student. It’s really not that hard to get to the airport because LOTS of people go there often, as CollegeGrad79 said.</p>
<p>I’d take a look through the WUE schools again. When D class of 2012 went to a college fair I seem to recall Univ of New Mexico rep telling us that the school was very affordable for high stat Ca students. </p>
<p>@sbjdorlo, I apologize for asking if you already answered this question, but is your son a NMSF? There are some scholarships for those and even more if he makes NMF, which with his SAT score he definitely would if he is currently a NMSF. At New Mexico State University, he can get tuition, housing, and a $1,125 stipend per semester just as a NMSF, and the stipend increases to $2500 for NMF. UNM also gives a scholarship to NMF, $17,285 a year it says on their website. And the list goes on… I’m sure you’ve heard from @mom2collegekids about UA. </p>
<p>Correct-he is commended. He is also in the running for a Special Corporate NM Scholarship, but cannot compete for all the school sponsored NM Finalist scholarships.</p>
<p>I have read through many but not all of the posts. Am I missing something? Why do you describe this student as non-super star. Basically there are very few super stars. But the credentials you describe seem to indicate a very strong student. I know tons of students who attend the most competitive schools in the country and none, except one, is a super star. They are accomplished, energetic, resourceful, talented but only one is a super star. They attend Cornell, Columbia, Michigan, Brown, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and on and on. The credentials they had, besides being very active in life, and therefore viewed as “accomplished” in a range of areas, were pretty good to excellent scores, good grades, evidence they went above and beyond in situations where others chose not to, and they often had awards from national competitions of various sorts. All of which seems true for this student. These schools match 100% need and take in to account brothers and sisters who may be in school too. So I’m wondering why the OP’s student did not look into these kind of schools. The SUNY system has been unable to attract students from other states the way the excellent flagship schools have. So even if the OP’s son had much lower scores and grades, I’d bet that SUNY would be keen to have him. Binghamton and Stony Brook seems to have students from other states whose credentials seem quite a bit lower than those of the local students. Basically SUNY is a system with aspirations that go beyond their accomplishments. Because there are about 65 SUNY’s, none seems to have distinguished itself to such an extent that it has become widely known to the national public. That is not to say that it is not known to academics-but I mean it is not a name in the way Michigan or UVA is. So they are keen for anything that suggests they are nationally known. Attracting students outside the NY area is one such thing. Some SUNY’s have rolling admissions. And I bet that SUNY would be willing to pay to attract such students-thus increasing the likelihood of aid.</p>
<p>Lostaccount…what SUNY will give this student a full ride without loans? The family has already stated that they won’t take the Direct Loan to fund room and board. The student would need enough aid that they would be paying less than their EFC which is about $8500. I don’t see that happening for an OOS student at any SUNY school.</p>
<p>Not sure but last May Binghamton was still short of its enrollment goals. They were on that list of schools still seeking qualified students. I think Albany was too but not sure. Buffalo was over-enrolled. Could depend on their yield at the point they get the application. College express states about 12% of Binghamton is from out of state but bet most are from Ct and NJ. I would think the school would welcome students from further distances. Can’t say what they would chalk up. But this student would also add strength to the profile of 1st year students so that too would be desirable to the school. </p>
<p>One thing about SUNY schools is that they require a GED or a letter from the school district superintendent. Here in California, neither are required and my son will not have either. He will have a homeschool diploma from me, and he already passed the California High School Proficiency Exam in his sophomore year (this is the equivalence of a diploma, but a parent needs to give permission for a student to be done with high school, and I haven’t done that).</p>
<p>Regarding reach schools-he has/will have applied to four reachy-reach schools and UCLA, a reach school, but I have not said which they are. I prefer not to, since he’s still working on three of them and might not finish them.
I was actually looking for maybe one or two more of these types-ones that admit maybe 10-20%+, but still meet 100% need. I have gotten some good ideas from this thread. His reachy reach were very hand picked for specific reasons, but I see there might be a couple more that are simple enough to add if he’s up for a “why us” essay.</p>
<p>With the troubles with our dog, though, if we have to put him down (and we really need to-he is deaf, blind, incontinent, and demented, but still recognizes our son when he’s not troubled by something like he was all during the night last night), our son will be very sad, so I don’t know how much more will now get done. Not such good timing, but we knew this time was soon coming. </p>
<p>What Thumper said. There are plenty of kids with the same stats as the OP’s son already in SUNY colleges and uni’s. They want OOS who are willing to pay OOS tuition to attend a SUNY. </p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your dog. You might want to talk with admissions at the SUNYs you may be interested in. There are home schooled students from other states in SUNY so there must be an alternative to the GED or letter. I would not second guess whether or not SUNY would provide full cover. You can’t tell before hand. The issue is whether a student offers something attractive to the school. Coming from a distance probably makes this candidate valuable. How much is yet to be seen.</p>
<p>sbj your son could play his cello at both UA-Huntsville and UA. Opportunity with musical groups w/o taking a ‘lesson’ (taking a lesson would require quite a bit of practice time each day, versus keeping up on instrument enough for musical group sessions). </p>
<p>A gaming company moved from CA to Huntsville, and I believe UA-Huntsville is offering additional classes in gaming. However UA-Huntsville is a high tech area so lots of opportunities for co-op, etc. </p>
<p>Most Promising Tech Hubs of 2014 included Huntsville AL as one of the top 10 - see techie.com and list that came out earlier this year.</p>
<p>UA would offer more levels of group playing opportunities in cello.</p>
<p>My UA student is eng major but has small performance scholarships at UA (concert band and marching band) - does not take a private lesson. </p>
<p>Your son could find his ‘tribe’ at either place. As mom2ck has said, you are missing UA deadlines and UAHuntsville deadlines for scholarship. If interested, they may bend for your student.</p>