<p>CLEMSON! deadline is May 1st</p>
<p>Pierre, for the Calhoun Honors College, according to </p>
<p>[Clemson</a> University : Calhoun Honors College : Incoming Freshmen](<a href=“http://www.clemson.edu/cuhonors/prospectivestudents/incoming.html]Clemson”>http://www.clemson.edu/cuhonors/prospectivestudents/incoming.html)</p>
<p>“The Non-Priority, final, deadline for application to the Honors College for Fall 2010 is March 1, 2010. All supporting materials are due by March 15, 2010. No student applications will be accepted after March 1, 2010.”</p>
<p>I guess Clemson itself is a safety, but the Calhoun may not be a safety. You are correct though that for Clemson (non-honors), the deadline is May 1.</p>
<p>Actually, the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State is still accepting applications on a rolling basis until March 1. This could be a great option! I don’t know if it’s a safety though. Penn State itself should be a safety. </p>
<p>[How</a> to Apply: Schreyer Honors College](<a href=“http://www.shc.psu.edu/future/apply/index.cfm]How”>http://www.shc.psu.edu/future/apply/index.cfm)</p>
<p>Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan State also have honors programs worth checking out.</p>
<p>Re: Toronto</p>
<p>They must have changed it back to March 1. I was pretty sure the deadline was moved to Feb 1. </p>
<p>That’s potentially terrific news for the OP! Although huge and potentially impersonal, Toronto is probably more highly regarded than anything else mentioned here and is definitely a safety.</p>
<p>Applying there now as your safety, would have been a good original plan had you had one. Nothing lost at all.</p>
<p>That’s true, the honors deadline is March 1st</p>
<p>Not the type of schools you have been looking at, but if you are in Georgia for in-state financial back-ups you could try: GA state (Mar 1) or GCSU (Apr 1)</p>
<p>Or - if you know what you plan to major in you might find something on the academic common market that would direct you to some OOS schools that will give you in-state tuition.</p>
<p>I don’t see how the OP can apply to any of the suggested OOS publics. He has BIG NEED. These schools won’t give him big need.</p>
<p>1) We don’t know how much his parents have saved up. If they have been saving his whole life, it might be a pretty big nestegg.
2) We don’t know how much FA he will get. He may get some, especially non-rolling private LACs whose deadline has not passed yet. There is no reason to think they won’t consider him along with their other applicants.
3) The Canadian schools along with the public LACs are as cheap as colleges come.</p>
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I would suggest to look at these schools as well.</p>
<p>CRD…</p>
<p>Yes, it’s possible that his parents have been saving for college, but with a $40k income, it’s unlikely they’ve saved much - especially since the OP wrote this…</p>
<p>I need financial aid; my parents make about $40,000 a year combined.</p>
<p>Yes, the privates would consider him for aid. My point was that the suggested publics will be unaffordable.</p>
<p>Your point is well taken. Maybe it’s worth throwing an application to a local college where he can live at home.</p>
<p>I think that Northwestern, Emory and Johns Hopkins are matches. I think that he has at least a 75% chance of getting into a college that he’s already applied to and those will all give him aid. If he applies to a bunch more of the privates now, there is a reasonable chance of getting aid. Worst case, the low cost OOS publics would require loans and significant work-study. But you are right, there does seem to be a gap. I sure hope that he’s busy writing more applications.</p>
<p>You’ll get into Washington and Lee for sure, and I wouldn’t put it past you to get into quite a few others. I had very similar stats and got into UChicago EA and UMich so far, waiting on a few Ivies and Northwestern.</p>