Chances for a (larger-ish) merit scholarship? Does BU give a lot of those?

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<p>I’m asian, I live in MA. I wanna stay in Boston since it’s close by home; I’m applying to Northeastern, Mass College of Pharmacy and UConn and Univ Rhode Island and Rutgers and other schools with pharmD/bSpharm (BU doesnt have it but whatever, I need more Boston-nearby home options and if i went to BU i’d probably do something-kind of medically related as my major and minor in something else, not sure what though…) My parents do not go under the category of need-based aid and I’ll be swamped with debt if i don’t get a larger enough scholarship since i wanna go to med school.</p>

<p>Competitive public high school in MA
Weighted GPA - 4.19
Unweighted GPA - 3.78
Rank - Top 12-15% or so
SAT:
1st time - 1980 total, 560 CR, 750 M, 670 W
2nd time (YESSS i love october thank god) - 2170 total - 690 M, 730 CR, 750 W
super score = 750 M, 730 CR, 750 W - 1480; 2230 (i’m so happy you have no idea, it made my whole day)</p>

<p>SAT Subjects: (here’s kinda so-so scores but whatever most of my schools are safeties, I just need merit scholarship money)

  • Math 2C - 700 >_< (bad)
  • Chem - 720 (kinda bad but whatever I didnt study for it after a month of no touching chem post-AP exam)
  • Bio E- 710 good-ish/whatever</p>

<p>AP exams - psych & chem both 5s junior year
this senior year i’m gonna take AB calc and AP biology</p>

<p>ECs: (again not special)

  • 150-200+ hours volunteer at local hospital since end of sophomore year, spent 2 summers + 1 fall + 1 spring there
  • part time job junior year from Sept 07- July 08 at day care as teacher’s aide
  • School newspaper since junior year
  • Track sophomore year - stopped because i honestly hated it, might take it up senior year though
  • VOICE committee + yearbook senior year</p>

<p>Freshman year I took 2 honors, 3 classes were accelerated/enriched <a href=“higher%20than%20CP%20level%20but%20lower%20than%20honors/ap”>A/E</a>
Sophomore - 3 honors, 2 A/E classes
Junior - 6 classes; 2 APs, 1 honors, 2 A/E
Senior - 4 academic classes - AP/AB Calc, AP Bio, English & Physics are A/E</p>

<p>The only reason why I’m not applying to ‘better ranked’ schools like Tufts etc. is because they probably wouldn’t give me merit scholarships…</p>

<p>oh and another BU question - I heard there’s a lot of grade deflation and it’s pretty difficult to get a nicer/higher GPA?.. Anyone have feedback on that?</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>my daughter had similar stats to your and applied ( and got accepted ) into BU ,MCPHS,NEU and a few others.
She got nice offers of merit from all but BU. She went to NEU, but really liked MCPHS a lot more than she expected and considered it. They were gererous with merit. The major drawback for her was that it seemed a bit like a suitcase schools with most of the students being from Mass. I am guessing ( since your family is there ) that this wouldn't be an issue for you.</p>