Also thank you all for your replies. I am late to this game and this forum has been a life-saver
First of all, your daughter is in good shape. Rutgers is a great school. She’s an excellent student who has shown that she will likely shine at any college. She’s supported by parents who want the best for her, and are able to send her away to excellent colleges. She has it “made”, as an old expression goes.
I would get those options sewn up and then shop around for other alternatives. Look for schools that have women’s crew where she might be valued. Contact the coaches, run NPCs, show some interest and, let it be known what you can afford.
Schools like Hobart-William Smith, St Lawrence, Union, tiny Washington College. Catholic schools like Duquesne, Lasalle, Iona. Get a complete list of those schools with crew and have your DD start talking to them. Where has the crew coach been through all of this, by the way?All of the time, money, sweat spent on crew all these years, and the coach and club have no tips and contacts for college? Something not right here.
But give it a go; you don’t have much to lose with the good back up schools she has. She can go all out.
@cptofthehouse The schools longtime crew coach retired last spring and as of right this moment there is no replacement named. That has made the recruiting process near impossible as emails to him from college coaches go unanswered. My daughter has been training with another team to stay in shape in the meantime, but not having a high school coach supporting her in the recruiting process makes it difficult to get traction. It’s a shame because last years seniors were all recruited and row in college. This year’s seniors have not been able to get any traction because there is no coach to support. Don’t get me wrong, she never rowed with the intention that it would get her money or into college; she just loves the sport. We were lucky enough to have a team at our high school.
I’m familiar with your quest but on the men’s side of rowing.
The challenge is that many D3 teams will be too expensive. My DS has received decent merit scholarships from public Midwest schools.
Is your DD fast enough to walk-on at Iowa or Oregon State?
I believe the NC promise pricing only applies to in state students but the 3 schools participating in NC promise have affordable OOS pricing for this student. Look closely at the details.
@kjcjms if interested in being recruited, reach out to coach at George Washington . She assistant coached at Rutgers before going to GWU.
GWU may have academic merit to come closer to your budget.
https://gwsports.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/coaches/marci-robles/462
If rowing is still an option maybe look at Delaware, St. Joe’s, Robert Morris, or Duquesne.
Hi! Coming back to this thread for advice. Need some help deciding on school for fall2020. Looking at Alabama, Clemson, Rutgers, St. Joes, Drexel, Umass Amherst and William and Mary.
My daughter has been accepted to all of the above schools; however because of coroavirus, we only were able to visit Clemson and Alabama. My daughter will be majoring in bio for premed. We are full pay with no need based financial aid at any school. With her athletic and academic merit scholarships, UMass, Rutgers, St. Joes & Alabama are all around the same price. She only was accepted into the honors college at Alabama. Clemson, Drexel and W&M cost about 15k more. She will graduate in 3 years because of her community college credits from high school. Anyone else visit these other schools or have some insight that we may be missing?
Are all schools affordable? Would any require loans to fund?
What are her preferences wrt size, location, vibe, and setting?
@wayoutwestmom can give you some advice on how to fulfill pre-med pre-reqs when having taken CC classes in HS and potential impacts of graduating early on medical school application success.
The usual thought is that medical schools look down on community college courses in the pre-med subject areas, so the pre-med should take higher level courses in those subject areas to “confirm” his/her achievement in those subject areas if the usual pre-med courses were taken at community college.
Yes. With the merit aid she has received, we can afford them all. Obviously, I would love if she chose one of the cheaper options, but I’m okay if she doesnt. No loans as we would be paying. She’s really into school spirit. Her high school didnt have much and frankly she was working way too hard to enjoy the little that it had. She really liked both Clemson and Alabama when we visited. She does not like the idea of Rutgers because of the size of the campus and having to take buses to get from area to area. It remains on the list solely because it has a solid bio/premed program. She is planning to only use her community college credits for elective and gened requirements, and retake all prerequisite courses for med school so that should not be an issue. She has 60 credits and is only planning to use 30 so she can take the prereq classes at a 4 year school.
What is your net cost for these colleges…and can you really afford the net costs.
@mom2collegekids might be able to shed some light on the honors college at Alabama, as well as their pre-Med courses and prep.
If medical school is seriously in the cards, keep your undergrad debt to a minimum as medical school will most likely be paid for with loans, loans and more loans.
Repeated courses will have to be marked as such on the medical school application (see page 33 of https://aamc-orange.global.ssl.fastly.net/production/media/filer_public/62/da/62da475b-a81d-46f5-a765-32c352c586ab/aamc-2021-amcas-applicant_guide_jw.pdf ). It is likely that medical school admission readers will see repeated courses as a negative point (grade grubbing). Note that all college courses and grades (including those taken while in high school) must be included in medical school applications.
School granted need based aid doesn’t combine with athletic aid, so you aren’t missing anything.
Doesn’t she have a preference on the team if she’s getting an athletic scholarship? Usually these schools don’t play on the same level in every sport.
“bio for premed.”
“With her athletic and academic merit scholarships”
One thing that I wonder about. For athletic scholarships, presumably she has to continue in the sport. Premed classes are demanding. The premed students that I have known (mostly friends of daughters) have been rather strongly committed to some combination of their classes and their volunteering in a medical environment (mostly in hospitals).
You should consider the possibility that she might want to quit her sports. If the athletic scholarships are significant that might be a financial issue.
I do not see how she could do Drexel in 3 years esp with the appeal of Drexel being their co-op program, which might be very helpful for a pre med student. Rutgers has a weird campus lay out but they do have a med school so that is a plus. Does she want to be in a city ( St Joe’s and Drexel) a small city ( Rutgers New Brunswick) or a very small college town W&M for example?