<p>Hi guys. I'm a rising senior and, unfortunately, I don't have much experience at all with the college search process. I've come up with a few schools that I think would be a good match, and a couple "safeties", but I'm just not all that familiar with the whole search process. Does anyone have any school suggestions for me to study music ed in? And yes, I could google schools, and I have, but this might be more helpful because there are actual people on these forums with actual college experiences. :)
My stats are:
1960 SAT (but will retake in fall, hoping for maybe 2000?)
3.5 GPA
a lot of EC in music (including assisting in orchestras for young kids)</p>
<p>So far, I've come up with Umass Amherst, Umass Lowell, and Westfield State, which I've scheduled visits to. If possible, I'd like to attend school in MA so that I can get in-state tuition prices.
Thanks!</p>
<p>couple "safeties</p>
<p>Are you certain that you can afford your safeties (that your parents will pay all costs or you’ll get some kind of ASSURED aid to cover all costs)???</p>
<p>A school isn’t a safety unless you know you have all funding.</p>
<p>As it is right now, my parents don’t have any money to put into my college education, so I will be working throughout college, scholarship searching, and most likely taking out loans. I wish it wasn’t that way, but since we don’t have money to put in, there isn’t really a financially safe school out there, lol. By “safeties”, I meant that I am well above the typical first-year student profile and that I should be accepted based on academics.</p>
<p>If you’re not sure about your ability to pay, have you considered doing your first year or two at a local community college and then transferring somewhere else in-state? You can probably keep your costs down that way.</p>
<p>From doing a quick search, looks like your four-year options are Salem, Bridgewater, Westfield, and the UMass schools.</p>