For Wisconsin I used the net price calculator and a good result came out. I have all the papers I need (birth certificate and also passport). I didn’t know that regarding UNC and it’s 18% rule, thanks for the advice. I really want to study IN the US, that has been my dream for a couple of years now, so studying in Europe would only be my second choice.
Yea I mean location is also for me not the biggest argument on the list but I would prefer good weather over being for example in the north. (Only if both universities are equally good)
My guess is that you’ll have good safeties in Europe.
For Trinity Dublin or UCD, your 1.8 opens “courses” at 430-450 points.
However, you want to have safeties in the US too, as you don’t want to run the risk of being denied from every US college you applied to (it feels truly terrible).
For UWisconsin, did you click “residence: out of state”? (the choices would have been Wisconsin, Minnesota, and OOS).
Try running the NPC on the colleges indicated, and provide us with the range: it’ll tell us what kind of college we can advise.
Roughly speaking, “good weather” means you will remove half of the US though - all of New England and the Midwest, most of the MidAtlantic. That leaves the South, the Deep South, and the Southwest. (If “good weather” also means “not rainy all the time”, you remove Oregon and Washington State. If rain and cloudy skies most of the time =OK, then you can add those).
California is almost off limits because of costs: your GPA isn’t strong enough for The Claremonts/Stanford/USC, UCs/CSUs are not within budget, and I’m not sure St Mary’s California/Chapman/LMU/Oxy would be what you’re looking for.
I can understand your wish for “good weather”, but in the US, outside of Virginia and North Carolina, there isn’t an area blessed with good weather from August to May: it’s either scorching hot, unbearably humid, hit by tornadoes/floods/wildfires, rainy, snowy&supercold… 
Alabama has the Blount Liberal Arts program which allows any major - so you could major in business and poli sci/psych/econ/ history etc… double and triple majors are common with students with advanced high school records. It COULD be affordable with you taking the federal loans, your family’s contribution, and some part time / summer work.
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Are you also a German citizen? The reason that I ask is that you should probably also consider making options for yourself in Germany, or possibly in The Netherlands, because these would be available to you at very low cost.
There are some highly selective schools in the US that would meet your full financial need, because you do have US citizenship (although you’d better make sure that you have that straightened out, with your US passport claimed right away, since you apparently were born and raised outside the US). But being top 15% in your high school class does not put you in range of getting into these schools (although the 1500 GPA is a very nice thing).
Are you really good at soccer? Honestly, the level of American high school soccer players is very low compared to that of players from most of the rest of the world. You might be able to get admission as a recruited athlete, if you’re really good. That WOULD potentially get you into any school you like in the US, since your grades and SAT score are definitely within range for recruited athletes.
Yes to play college soccer is actually my plan number 1, I was also already contacted by 2 D1 programs. But I also want to figure out how it is if I’m not recruited
If my plans with studying in the US don’t work out I’ll definitely study here in Germany and then study one year abroad. But to be honest after so many years in Germany it can get a little bit boring even though Germany is a great country to live in.
I would push back at this a little. If you find a perfect safety where you KNOW you’ll get in and you KNOW you’ll be able to afford it, and it excites you, it could possibly be the only school you apply to. You don’t really need more. That was indeed the way I did it.
Do you think I would be even in the range of ivys as recruited athlete?
Okay thanks👍
Are you playing in a national league’s youth club? Is your club otherwise nationally ranked and are you a top player there?
Can you list 4-5 D1 colleges, among which 2 are the coaches that called you?
Ivies don’t give athletic scholarships or merit awards so you will be way over budget.
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I am playing in the second highest youth league that is possible here which is the state championship. So you want me to write 4-5 D1 schools and 2 of those are the ones that contacted me?
Yea but I would fit in in terms of need based grant and I would be open to take a loan if necessary for an Ivy League education. (If the loan is not too high) But I am convinced the amount of need based at ivys is good
Since you are in Germany, no one really knows how valuable a 3.5 gpa is. Are you top of the class or no? If yes, then these schools can be possible for sure, Only problem is u r international and need financial aid. That may hurt a lot
We already talked about these things here in the chat. For example regarding financial aid, I’m a US citizen. My GPA which would actually be 3.6 UW would be around 4.4 weighted since nearly all of my classes are on AP level.
yes, if you give 5 similar universities, this way you remain anonymous but it gives us an idea of how strong an athlete you are
Being a recruited player (possibly) would be a game changer.
Please run the NPC on Amherst and Yale.
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Net price for Yale and Amherst looks very good and acceptable.
To be honest it’s hard for me to tell similar colleges and I also don’t want to but what I can tell you is that one is in terms of soccer (very) good, compeating regularly for the conference championship and the other one won its conference champion ship a couple of years ago but isn’t as well known as the first one.
Being an Ivy recruited athlete makes a small difference at the margins in regards to admissions and no difference in net price.
Soccer is particularly difficult as D1 schools are only allowed to award 9.9 scholarships per year. They obviously carry far more players than that. As a result, they usually split them.
Collegiate soccer in the US is also far less refined than the world game. Coaches frequently prize size and brute strength over skill, sort of like passing on a pitcher with great stuff and a good mental game simply because he can’t throw 90+.
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it does make a BIG difference in terms of odds (goes from about 5% to about 30%) and since OP is lower income all meet need colleges get in play. OP’s likely to have better odds at Amherst than in the Ivy League, but 1.8 meets the basic academic requirements, OP has excellent test scores, and often when US collegiate teams recruit European talent, it’s specifically for their “style” (German, Spanish, French, British, Dutch) that complements the US training.
@julszy04:
Look at what the soccer team at Amherst is doing. Would you match that level?
If so, you’ll need to make a video - not just your 'best footage" from actual games, but also examples of your foot technique, ability to pass, etc. Teams need team players, far more than just scorers.
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