<p>2011VAMom:
I got a combined score of 1630 for CR + M. But I plan to retake the SAT again. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I will definitely look into these programs.</p>
<p>N.B.: Full-need is not the same thing as full-ride unless EFC is 0 (which might be the case for the OP).</p>
<p>Not sure that is correct. The max you could get for CR+M would be 1600.
Since a perfect score on each is 800. </p>
<p>You may want to go to collegeboard and recheck that.</p>
<ul>
<li>Amherst College
<ul>
<li>Beloit College</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Bowdoin College</li>
<li>Brandeis University</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna College</li>
<li>College of the Holy Cross</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>Cooper Union</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Davidson College</li>
<li>Denison University</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>Emory University</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>Grinnell College</li>
<li>Hamilton College</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>Knox College</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Pomona College</li>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>Rice University </li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>University of Miami</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>University of Richmond</li>
<li>University of Rochester</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>Vassar College </li>
<li>Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>Wake Forest University</li>
<li>Wellesley College</li>
<li>Wesleyan University</li>
<li>Williams College</li>
<li>Yale University
These colleges are need-blind and meet full need, some (Washington University in St. Louis, Swarthmore) have a no loan policy, so they would be a full-ride except for work study.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>With those stats and your low-income background, you appear to be eligible for a need-based full ride at the schools listed in post #24. My stats weren’t as good as yours - though stats are far from everything, they are a great but overly simplistic way of measuring likelihood of acceptance - and I have received a full ride (tuition, room, board, and fees) at Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis. Please consider QuestBridge.</p>
<p>You will want to look at schools that meet 100% of need and promise to do so with no or with capped loans. Some schools of that nature are HYPS, Chicago, Rice, WUStL, Columbia, Amherst, Pomona, etc. You will also want to look at strong financial safeties. The University of Pittsburgh offers full tuition scholarships to most students with a 1470+ M+CR. That, in addition to your Pell Grant and a job, makes it possible to graduate with less than $25,000 debt (very good for a low-income student at a four year anniversary).</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you need any more help. I am a low-income student ($25,000 / family of five) who will be attending school on a full ride.</p>
<p>If you are low income, you might be eligible for significant need based aid from top schools.</p>
<p>oops… 2011VAMom, ur right… I meant 1330 not 1630… typo… :)</p>
<p>No problem woohoo !!</p>