<p>Check the NPC for each school on your list and eliminate the financial impossible. If you are looking for generous merit aid, you need to aim a lot lower. ACT 33 is good but may not be enough to get you good merit aid at good schools even if they do offer merit aid. Obviously, you have not spent much time to look at the details for each school yet. This is what you need to do over the summer. Find out the application procedure and requirement for each of those you are interested in. Make sure you have the subject test scores for those schools require/recommend them. Visit some campuses on your list to see how do you like them. There are plenty to do even before the application forms are available.</p>