Chances for Appalachian Ohio Girl

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Gender: Female
I attend a public school in Southern Ohio. Less than 50% of my classmates will pursue higher education.
Intended Major: Communication disorders/hearing sciences to become a Speech Language Pathologist
Will need a large amount of financial aid (EFC is around $6,000)</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.2
Rank: 8/240
ACT: 33
Taken/will take 3 AP classes (my school offers only 3)
Taken all honors classes offered at my high school</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP Lit, AP Calc, Spanish IV, Orchestra, Symphonic Chorale, Physics, Honors Govt.</p>

<p>Athletics:
Varsity cross country and track</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Region Orchestra
All-Ohio Youth Choir
Part of select traveling contigent of All-Ohio Youth Choir
Civic Chorus
Civic Chamber Chorus
Foreign Language Club
Church Choir -adult and youth choirs
National Honor Society
Career Mentoring with a Speech-Language Pathologist
Junior Leadership Seminars
Playing as a student apprentice in a sem-professional orchestra
Voice and viola private lessons
Worked as a Fine Arts Camp Counselor last summer
Symphony Orchestra
Symphonic Chorale</p>

<p>Service:
Key Club
Girl Scouts -directing a camp for younger girls
Hospital Volunteer
Volunteers at junior high track meets</p>

<p>Awards/Honors:
Girl Scout Silver Award
Working on Girl Scout Gold Award (will spend at least 65 hours on it)
Buckeye Girls State
Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Ambassador
Local Rotary Club's Outstanding Musician Award</p>

<p>Colleges:
Case Western Reserve University
James Madison University
Miami University - Oxford
Northwestern (#1 choice, considering ED, but worried about financial aid)
Ohio State
Penn State - University Park<br>
University of Pittsburgh
University of Virginia</p>

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<p>Public schools usually do not give good aid to OOS students so I worry that you have too many OOS publics on your list. Unfortunately the schools really good with need based aid are those that are reaches for most. You have solid stats for merit aid at many schools where your stats would fall at the top of their pool.</p>

<p>I would add some of the schools known to give good merit and need based aid. There's a discussion bookmarked on the parent's forum that can help you choose from these schools.</p>

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<p>What is an OOS student?
Sorry, I'm new to this and I don't know all of the abbreviations.
Thanks for the advice.</p>

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<p>Out of State....yeah, big schools like PSU-UP, OSU, and Pitt will be less inclined to give financial aid. It is just that there are so many applications that they can normally fill the class with qualified applicants without giving out large amounts of financial aid. I go to PSU-UP. I love it here, but that seems like a good list. Just make sure to visit all the places that you are seriously interested in attending. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>looking good for all with the exception of UVA</p>

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<p>In at all of them, although uva possibly not.</p>

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<p>I have visited most of them with the exception of James Madison, UVA, and Penn State. I live in Ohio so I know that I would get a fair amount of money from OSU.
Why not UVA?</p>

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<p>anyone else, please?
I really have no idea about the college admissions process</p>

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<p>what about the other colleges on my list?</p>

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<p>I think you will get into all the colleges on your list. If I were you I'd aim a little higher.</p>

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<p>What do you mean by aim higher?
The thing was I didn't know how high to aim so I choose places I thought I had a chance to be accepted.
Can you give me some examples of colleges that I could possibly get accepted at that are higher than the ones I already had listed?
Thanks</p>

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<p>I think you have a good mix of schools here. You have a large reach in Northwestern (it's never a sure thing for anyone applying there). You have a reach (UVA). You have a bunch of most likely acceptances (PSU, OSU, Case), and some safties (JMU, Miami, Pitt). I guess you could shoot an application at a lower ivy, but if you get into northwestern it's just as good.</p>

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<p>Case Western Reserve University-- match
James Madison University-- safety
Miami University-- safety
Northwestern-- reach
Ohio State-- match
Penn State - University Park-- safety
University of Pittsburgh-- match
University of Virginia-- reach</p>

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<p>Can someone give me an example of a lower ivy?</p>

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<p>I would say Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and Penn fall under that "category". Also, if you like MIT, they are nice to girls.</p>

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<p>thanks for answering my question!</p>

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<p>Once again, Pat2323 you need to get over your personal problem with Penn State. I know you have several names with which you log on to this site and degrade penn state. I am not sure how, but you were somehow accepted and then left. I am tired of hearing you ***** about how terrible your experience was. Anna, if you want to check what future pitt grads end up doing just check the pitt section. Pat2323's entire life is spent in the pitt area. It's hilarious. They have nothing better to do and by no means is pitt and match while PSU a safety. What a joke.</p>

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<p>What are my chances at Brown and Duke?</p>

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<p>three years ago, UVA's financial aid package for OOS made it essentially competitive with the most competitive packages we recieved - just very slightly less.</p>

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<p>Your chances at Brown and Duke are decent. I would label them as low reaches because you have the stats (GPA+ACT) and you are low income.</p>