College recommendations? Please help!

College Search & Selection
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Do you guys know any colleges that would be a good fit for me?

  • Has top 50 business program
  • Ranked in top 50 (or near) by US NEWS
  • Known to give a lot of financial aid
  • Urban

Here’s some info on me
Weighted GPA: 4.2-4.25
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Class rank: 1/630 rank
SAT: 1930
ACT: not taken
No SAT subject tests

AP/College classes:
Freshmen year: no honor/ap classes
Sophomore year: Ap human geography
Junior year: College US History, AP Psychology, precalculus
Senior year: AP Calculus, AP literature, Spanish 3, AP Government

EC:
National honor society
Red cross
Sparrow club
Sneaker club
Track and field
Link crew
Speech/debate
Project proto (business program for entrepreneurs)
Volunteer at library/EPCC

Recommendations:
Should be solid for everyone

I am in a big need of financial aid, our annual income is like 40k. And I don’t care whether it’s in east or west coast.
Both parents never went to college.

Any recommendations would help! So far, I only have BU, boston college, and Wake Forest as potential colleges.

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You should expand your search to major in Economics. There are quite a few schools that offer tremendous aid and merit money but don’t offer business. At your family’s income these schools would cost you less than 10k a year. Since neither of your parents went to college some of these schools will really find you an attractive candidate.

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Does this list help? http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/slideshows/2012-08-29/top-b-schools-with-the-best-financial-aid

And here’s the list for Economics - but you’ll have to check out the financial aid by running the NPC.http://www.collegechoice.net/rankings/best-bachelors-degree-programs-in-economics/

What state are you a resident of? Your state school is usually your most affordable option. If you are lucky, you may be living in a state that has a really good undergraduate business program (like the Smith School at UMD).

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Thank you for your response! I really wanna become an entrepreneur or work in the management section of businesses. Would economics still help with this?

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I live in Portland, Oregon but there’s no top ranked business schools here :frowning:

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If possible, can you guys help chance me at my other thread. That would be AWESOME!!! :slight_smile:

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I disagree with the idea of opening your search up to economics if you do, in fact, want to study business. Although one is not better or worse than the other, the two paths are quite different. Economics is a liberal arts course of study and at the higher levels, economics is quite theoretical. As a business major you would take a business core curriculum exposing you to areas such as finance, accounting, management, IT, business-law (as well as 2 economics classes) and you would major in a business discipline. You can look at the curriculum for the two paths and see which you feel would best help you reach your goals.

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Yeah true I did some research and I don’t think economy is for me. It’s interesting definitely but not what I wanna do for my future. Anyways bump!!!

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Holy Cross in Massachusetts

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b

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What is your actual SAT breakdown? Are you done testing? You have a great GPA and class rank, but your test scores don’t really reflect that.

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Reading: 600
Writing: 660
Math: 670

and ouch :frowning: I’m not great at standardized testing but i am realllllly dilligent with my classwork

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and no i hope to take it one more time next month. praying for a 2k :’( :’(

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Here are some links that might be interesting:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/237330
http://www.collegechoice.net/uncategorized/best-colleges-for-entrepreneurs/

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Ok thanks I’ll check it out! And is it true Virginia university and chapel hill give a lot of FA? If so, I would like to apply there