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<p>Can you be more specific? UW GPA (/4.0) is the only thing that matters.</p>
<p>Not yet, but she got a 219 PSAT and 213 is the cutoff mark for PA to become a semifinalist. It’s really not hard to go from semifinalist to finalist; you just have to get a good SAT score and write an essay.</p>
<p>Her unweighted GPA is 4.0.</p>
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<p>As tk pointed out, this cuts it down to about a thousand schools. She must have some preferences - are you saying Minneapolis is the same as Miami? Cleveland is the same as San Diego? And how urban does she want? Stanford, Wellesley and (to my mind) UCLA are decidedly suburban environments; Northwestern is at least 30 minutes to the loop by train - Georgetown, Vanderbilt and Brown are far more urban. </p>
<p>You really need to find some parameters otherwise you’ll never cut down the list. I’d add UMinnesota (borders both Minneapolis & St. Paul), Carnegie-Mellon, Boston College, Tulane & the University of Miami.</p>
<p>Well, it sounds like she wants someplace fairly prestigious (the kind of place with a reputation for heavy Wall Street recruiting). Yet she also wants a merit scholarship. That cuts the thousand down very far.</p>
<p>Merit scholarships eliminate all the Ivy League schools and most of the top New England LACs. The most prestigious schools that offer merit scholarships include Chicago, Hopkins, WUSTL, Duke, Northwestern (I think), and Rice. Competition for significant merit aid at most of these schools would be intense.</p>
<p>Since she is interested in saving $ for med school I would recommend looking at this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html?highlight=keilexandra[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/national-merit-scholarships/649276-nmf-scholarships-updated-compilation.html?highlight=keilexandra</a>
Premed can be done pretty much anywhere. For business, some good large Us offer merit aid (Alabama, LSU, ASU).</p>
<p>I’ll add UT Dallas to the list.</p>
<p>Reach
Chicago
Rice</p>
<p>Match
NYU
USC - many full tuition and full ride scholarships
Wellesley</p>
<p>Safety
Pitt Honors College - full tuition and full ride scholarships, guaranteed grad school acceptance
CUNY Hunter Honors College - free tuition, free dorm, free laptop, $7500 grant
SUNY Stony Brook Honors College - full tuition and full ride scholarships
Rutgers - full tuition and full ride scholarships
UT Dallas - full tuition scholarships
Baylor Honors College - full tuition scholarships
Case - full tuition and full ride scholarships</p>
<p>Reach
Northwestern BA/MD
Rice BA/MD
Case BA/MD full tuition and full ride scholarships
USC BA/MD full tuition and full ride scholarships</p>
<p>Match
BU BA/MD
GW BA/MD
Drexel BA/MD full tuition scholarships
Stony Brook BA/MD full tuition scholarships</p>
<p>Safety
CUNY Hunter Honors College - free tuition, free dorm, free laptop, $7500 grant
Pitt Honors College - full tuition and full ride scholarships, guaranteed grad school acceptance
UT Dallas - full tuition scholarships
Baylor Honors College - full tuition scholarships</p>
<p>So she is going all out on BA/MD programs now? I would say if she’s doing that, look at URochester as well for their BA/MD program and merit scholarships. Also, if she is already applying to CUNY Hunter, Brooklyn College has a BA/MD program with SUNY Downstate.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you have to be a NY resident to apply to that program, right?</p>
<p>BU and GW are only maybes. And she might add a couple more reaches from the original list.</p>
<p>No, the program you’re referring to where you have to be an NY resident is Sophie Davis. IIRC the Brooklyn College BA/MD favors those from around the New York area but doesn’t have any restrictions. </p>
<p>[B.A.-M.D</a>. Program - Home](<a href=“http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bamd/bamdmain.html]B.A.-M.D”>http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bamd/bamdmain.html)</p>