<p>Hi everyone.. so basically my situation is a little tricky. My family has been in a tough financial situation for the last couple of years. My dad was laid off, and later got a job that paid 110,000+ a year, but we were completely behind on bills/ with bad credit score. To build up credit & pay back all the money we basically have been having a really hard time, not to mention my older brother attends Providence College with not a lot of aid. So what all of this rambling means is I need to figure out a college where I could possibly get some merit money, since although money is tight we do not qualify for any drastic financial aid. </p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Female, white, going to be a senior in the fall, planning to major in English then go on to attend law school
attend a pretty good public school in Massachusetts that sends a handful of kids to Ivys each year/ other prestigious colleges
4.5 weighted GPA, i don't know my unweighted gpa
class rank 8/ 333 students
1880 SAT (660 CR, 570 M, 650 W 10 essay)
(I am well aware this is not anything special, especially math but i had ZERO preparation and I am taking them again in the fall )
5 APS total
Junior Year:
APUSH
APENG -- will be getting my scores this week, probably 4/5 in both
Senior Year
AP Euro
AP Eng
AP Span
with all honors classes otherwise
- two varsity sports: Cross-country 3 years, Basketball 3 years
-Secretary of NHS, member of Foreign Language HS
-Member of SADD(4 years), Caring Hearts (2 Years), Interact Club (4 years), Spanish Club (3 years)
-Spanish tutor (2 years)
-Docent at the museum of fine arts
- volunteer youth basketball coach (2 years, 100+ hours)
-volunteer at Interfaith social services (30+)
- volunteer at Quincy Crisis center (20+)
- Smith book award recepient
- Lions Club Essay finalist
- Honorable mention in Nat Span Exam, Silver medal in Nat Span Exam </p>
<p>nothing great I know, here are the schools I am considering:
UCONN
Syracuse
Tulane
here are my reaches, I know i will get no money/may not get into them but everybody has to have them:
Lehigh (reach)
George Washington Univ (reach)
NYU (reach)</p>
<p>I'm interested in universities, not so much LACS just not my type of atmosphere, my guidance counselor already informed me that Syracuse is VERY generous to students at my school, especially with stats like me, so that so far is a safety, but i am really considering UCONN, visited it, loved it, close to home, could I definitely get in if I raised my SAT to 1900+?</p>
<p>Also is it worth it to take the SAT IIs? I have to pay for them myself, and i'm already paying for another SAT and ACT in the fall, so I need to know its worth it.</p>
<p>Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this very long post and for any answers! :-)</p>