I know about the more prominent ones like Oklahoma, Alabama, and U of Arizona, but I’m looking for something not in the south/midwest. Diversity is a big deal to me, and those schools are generally homogeneous.
What is your SAT or ACT score…and your GPA?
Are you a competitive applicant for University of Michigan or University of Pittsburgh?
I know they are both Midwest…but what makes you think they aren’t diverse?
According to other threads, you are a rising HS Junior. You also posted an ACT score that was pretty high.
Once you take the PSAT and really see if you will be able to get NMF status, you will know other options.
Could you please clarify your posts? Unless I’m reading this wrong…on one post you want to get involved with secondary education. Then 25 days later…you want to be a premed.
Please clarify…
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How are UAlabama and UArizona “homogenous”??
One has a good sized black population and the other has a good sized Hispanic population.
Please clarify your career interests…education?? Medicine??
Alabama and Arizona in particular are both very diverse, as has been pointed out. Both attract a huge number of students from OOS. The reality is, ignoring Southern schools will severely limit your merit options.
Midwestern schools are not all “homogeneous.” Also, UArizona is in the southwest, not the south.
But semantics aside, what are your SAT/ACT/PSAT scores? Might you be a National Merit Finalist? What state are you from?
@albert69 I didn’t say that U of Arizona was in the South. I just said that I wanted to exclude it in the thread.
@thumper1 @mom2collegekids I was just curious like damn I just wanted to know whether there was a school in non-midwest/south areas that had good aid that I haven’t heard about. I wanted this to be a more general question because I do have a lot of interests but ok guess I can only be super focused on a single career path forever and ever on this website
@CourtneyThurston I guess this applies to all the responses and I realize this was unclear in the original question but I was referring to largely midwestern schools, not U of A/Alabama, when I said homogeneous.
I realize my original question was very confusing and said a lot of things I did not mean. I do not want this thread to apply to my specific situation. I just wanted to know about diverse schools not in the south/midwest with good aid out of curiosity. I set those parameters to eliminate the most well-known ones and possibly draw new responses.
For merit aid at least, it depends on what GPA and test scores are in play.
“guess this applies to all the responses and I realize this was unclear in the original question but I was referring to largely midwestern schools, not U of A/Alabama, when I said homogeneous.”
You’re still incorrect, though. Plenty of diversity at large Midwestern schools.
UVA and UNC are known to offer solid financial aid, but both are also pretty selective for OOS applicants.
Ohio State, Temple
rowan u, really good merit aid
Maybe go through this thread?
University of Vermont.
University of Vermont is extremely exoensive for OOS students…and their aid is meh.
Also, if you are looking for an ethnically diverse population…it’s not at the top of the list.
But not hard to get the merit aid.
For OOS at UVM, easy merit does little to offset the high COA.
@BelknapPoint I completely agree.,even a top merit award isn’t going to make UVM a cheap school. It is usually the top or second top most expensive public university for OOS students.
Okay, so you’ve wiped away all the big state schools in the south or midwest, don’t want Arizona, there is not good OOS aid in California or Washington state, don’t want schools that aren’t ‘diverse’ by your definition. What does that leave you? Not good OOS financial aid at Maryland, Rutgers, UConn, Penn State where you might find it at Arizona, Florida State, Minnesota.
If you rule out the south and the midwest, you’ve ruled out a lot of schools. If you rule out schools that aren’t that diverse (20% non-white? 40%? how do you define it?), you may be ruling out Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, Utah and if you looked you might find a very diverse and accepting atmosphere at any of those schools.
Temple and Howard (not public but good merit)