College Suggsestions for my brother

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>My brother will be a senior in high school this upcoming semester, and he is looking for a few more schools to add to his current list of schools to apply to.</p>

<p>Some Background info:
My parents can pay up to $20000 a year for school. Any costs exceeding that $20000 my brother will have to take out loans for, which he really would rather not do. Our family will unlikely recieve financial aid, so if a school's tuition+room and board exceeds $20000, he is looking for merit scholarships to make up for the rest.</p>

<p>My brother is hispanic, and was selected I believe as a National Hispanic Scholar based on his PSAT scores. I believe he was selected as a semifinalist and is waiting for notice regarding wherther or not he will be selected as a finalist. If anyone has any insight into the National Hispanic Scholar program, his chances of being a finalist, and what schools might potentially give him a significant scholarship it would be extremely helpful if you could share.</p>

<p>My brother think he will want to go to law school after undergrad, and thinks he wants to be a history major.</p>

<p>Here are my brother's stats:</p>

<p>Gender: M
College Class Year: 2015
High School: Public</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA Weighted:100.1
My Brother's High School doesn't rank. Also they only report a weighted average.</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT: 1340/1930 (700M, 640R, 590 W) (He will take this one more time and has begun tutoring in the hopes of increasing his score to the 2000 range)
SAT II Math 1- 650
SAT II US History -650
APs: English Lang 4, US History 4, World History 4, Env. Science 3</p>

<p>My Brother is currently applying to the following schools:
GW, Suny Binghamton(my school) Suny Albany
Delaware, Maryland, Fordham, St Johns. For most of these schools other than the SUNY's he will need merit scholarship money to attend.</p>

<p>Any suggestions/ feedback would be greatly appreciated</p>

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<p>Northeastern and Villanova may be good options to look at.</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>SUNY Geneseo
U of Rochester
Colgate
Hamilton</p>

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<p>You did not state what size school he wants. I assume a mid-sized university based on the schools you listed, but if he is willing to look at small LACs I think there are many LACs where he could get merit money based upon his scores and the schools desire to diversify ethnic backgrounds.</p>

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<p>Is your family very low income? If so consider applying via questbridge. There are some good colleges like Denison U that could be good matches.</p>

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<p>Gaucher in Baltimore (safety)
Renesslaer Polytech in Albany
and Michigan State (apply early they run out of money fast)</p>

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<p>Oh one more pre-law, kinda remote, can study American Indian as well as Law , definitely in your budget range with plenty of bucks left over for law school. absoulutly no loans with his GPA: A DEFINITE FINANCIAL SAFETY…Northern Michigan University in the upper penn of Michigan next to the Olympic Traning center in Marquette MI…bring your snow shoes!</p>