It’s the less-wealthy full-need-met schools that are most need-aware. The schools that don’t promise to meet full need at all can (and a fair number say they do) admit need-blind, as doing so doesn’t incur any obligation to offer more financial aid than they can afford.
There are community colleges that have dorms, sports, and in most ways look like a 4 year school. I don’t know these exist in NE, but they so in the south, California, and may serve the OP’s needs. I do think he’s going to need some remedial/no credit classes if he wants to major in STEM, so why not get them at a lower price?
All California public universities (32 of them) and community colleges (115 of them) have need-blind admissions.
Of course, there is no financial aid for non-California residents.
It is likely that the same or similar is true for public universities and community colleges in other states.
Saying it repeatedly does not make it true.
Those 7 schools are a small subset of all schools which are need-blind for admissions. Your claim about only 50 schools being need-blind for admissions is obviously untrue, since there are 147 public schools in California and probably hundreds more in other states which are need-blind for admissions (but do not claim to “meet need” for everyone).
Note: obviously, “need-blind” in this context is for the evaluation of individual applicants. Colleges may be need-blind in admissions when evaluating individual applicants, but may be need-aware when doing overall planning for the next admissions cycle, often by deciding which proxy characteristics for SES should be emphasized or de-emphasized.
Just add me to the chorus that is boggled by your graduating a year early wanting an Engineering or Pre-Med “ish” major without having taken at least Trig or Pre-Calc and high school level Physics. Whoever gave you that guidance didn’t do you any favors and you will need to make up for it now in one way or another.
Are you at least willing to do those over the summer at a CC prior to starting at a 4 year school? You need that high school level knowledge as pre-reqs (esp math - some can handle Physics without high school level first, but you still need Calc first and that comes AFTER pre-calc).
Most four-year students attend need-blind state schools, but most four-year schools are private and need-aware.
But it doesn’t matter if a school is need-aware or need-blind. If you like a school, it’s a good match, and the NPC suggests it’s affordable, apply.
I’m not sure that La Salle University is an option. I attended freshman year (2016).
I had a 3.3 GPA and similar test scores. I had to attend the summit program (academic boot camp). You have to “pass” the program before you’re accepted. The lowest GPA of anyone I knew in the program was a 2.9. Minute
@newjerseygirl98 was going to point that out, too. La Salle is often held up as a low stats schools but I think there must be heavy skewing in the statistics because every student I know from there who has shared with has had very good GPAs, high test scores and a multitude of APs and Honors. I think what it might be about is they have some very special admissions processes for low-income ELLs. Maybe if they are adding those admits into the stats and their test scores are low? Or else being a Div 1 school, they have a lot of low-stat athletes? I never got that impression that the athletes were low-stat, though. It’s been puzzling me, actually, why their reported stats are so low. According to Prep Scholar you would have been an average admit.
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