<p>I found the below from other posts by the OP, who appears to live in Orange County, Calif.</p>
<p>As a first gen, very low income college student, you'd be a highly desireable applicant at many very top colleges. Among colleges that might admit you with excellent merit aid are: Rice (which really wants low income, first gen students. I heard that directly from the associate provost), Bowdoin, and probably places like Amherst as well as Ivies. </p>
<p>BU is NOT generous with financial aid unless you're fortunate enough to get one of their top merit scholarships. I know someone who got one: valedictorian, very rigorous curriculum, very poor, immigrant, good ECs, GC who fought for her.</p>
<p>Strongly consider applying to your in-state colleges, which probably have some nice merit aid that you'd qualify for as well as need-based aid. You really don't need any ED boost. What you need is the best aid package that you can get -- and one obtains that by shopping around. California has some of the best and most public colleges in the country. You'd probably be far better off staying at home than taking on the extra expense of going across country to college. Even with good merit aid and financial aid, you'd still have lots of extra costs going to college in the East including higher travel costs and clothing costs due to the climate change.</p>
<p>"My college counselor said Vassar, Fordham, GWU, American and Boston U would be safeties. She only knew my GPA/APs and Honors taken however and not my SAT scores and ECs. </p>
<p>Some more info:
First generation college student
Father immigrant
Low income</p>
<p>APs
AP US- A, A 5
AP Bio- A-, A 3
AP Stats- A-, A-, 3
All of these junior year.</p>
<p>Senior Course Load
AP Art History
AP Computer Science
AP Gov/Econ
English 7-8
French 7-8
Physics Honors
Calculus at local college</p>
<p>Also, my school is very competitive and sent students to Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Princeton last year</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help"</p>
<p>and
am afraid the mistakes of my past will catch up to me now...!</p>
<p>Personal Circumstance #1:
I had an absolutely horrible freshman year of high school, with a 2.1 and 2.8 GPA for the semesters, 6 Cs and 6 Bs. I missed over 1 month of school because of a terrible sickness around finals, had to go back to school extremely sick with bronchitis. </p>
<h1>2: My mother has schizophrenia and was not medicated for the disease until my junior year. It caused me alot of grief at school and with friends. I had to move out of my house and live by myself in hotels, friend's houses,etc for much of my early high school career.</h1>