<p>Hi, white male from Maine, I go to a competitive public school with major grade deflation, potentially looking for financial aid. Freshman GPA 3.9, Sophomore GPA 3.73, Junior GPA 3.83. Cumulative GPA 3.83. Taken the most rigorous course load offered at my school, including several AP's so far.
SAT combined score, math 700, writing 670, reading 600, had mono, can do better, trying for around 2100, haven't taken SAT II or ACT yet.
Varsity Soccer, Lacrosse and Indoor Track for sophomore and junior year, planning on continuing next year. Possibility of being soccer captain. Played piano for eight years privately, in the jazz band for two years, played clarinet since fifth grade.
Looking for target, safety, and reach schools.</p>
<p>well fhewitt Im in a similar situation, I think that for you safeties might be Boston U, Skidmore. Target might be kenyon syracuse. Reach might be Middlebury, bowdoin, and Tufts just to start you off</p>
<p>Since your live in Maine your could try University of Maine, there is also Georgetown, Purdue, Tufts, Penn State, USC, Santa Clara University, UC Santa Cruz, Tulane, Clemson, Northeastern.</p>
<p>Give us more information about what you are looking for:</p>
<p>Size of school (LAC, publics, mid-sized privates)
What you can afford - need financial aid? how much?
urban/rural/suburban? geographic constraints? other must haves? (mountains, beach?)
area you plan to study and future career goals
culture: jock, intellectual, granola, artsy, quirky, preppy - give us some adjectives
deal-breakers: religious? single-sex? other?</p>
<p>There are hundreds of good schools for someone with your stats so the more you tell us about what you want, the more on target the recommendations are likely to be.</p>
<p>Take a look at Clemson! Let me know if you have any questions!!</p>
<p>I would love to be somewhere warm, and in a medium to big university.
A full ride is not needed, but as much financial aid as possible would be wonderful.
For culture, I play sports all year and listen to music while I hang out with my friends, but I’m dating a girl whose going to art school, so I don’t want to cut down my choices in that area.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, please keep contributing and leave questions for me, this is helping a lot.</p>
<p>Clemson is definitely in a warm environment. Winters are short (snows about once every year), spring and summer are longer seasons and it is HOT in the summer. The school is a medium sized school. There are about 15,000 undergraduate students.</p>
<p>What else do you like about it? It sounds great and I could look it up online but you could probably give me the best description ^</p>
<p>Watch these two videos! They do a great job at introducing the school in the first video and the second video will talk about some students experiences about the school (very similar to mine). You’ll hear terms like “The Clemson Family”. The school spirit at this school is amazing. Let me know if you have any specific questions! (Thought these videos would do a better job at answering the question 'What else do you like about it?" since I would end up spending hours writing an essay about this haha)</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - What’s it like to be a Clemson Tiger?](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)
[YouTube</a> - The Clemson Experience](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>Can you clarify…</p>
<p>When you say that you need financial aid, that will eliminate most OOS publics unless your scores are high enough to get huge merit from them.</p>
<p>Do you mean that you need “need-based aid” because your family has a modest income? </p>
<p>Or do you mean that you need aid because your family has a good income, but can’t pay as much as they will be expected to pay?</p>
<p>A family has to qualify for the need-based aid that they need by providing income and assets info. </p>
<p>If your family has an EFC that they can’t afford to pay, then you need to look for schools that give large merit for stats. And, your stats should be in the upper quartile for the school. </p>
<p>HOw much will your family pay each year? If you don’t know, ask them.</p>
<p>What is your likely major and career goal???</p>
<p>So, please clarify your situation so that the recommendations will fit you. :)</p>
<p>Financial Safeties are schools that you know for SURE that you’ll have all costs covered by ASSURED grants/scholarships, small federal student loans, and/or family funds. Since most safeties don’t meet need, then many may not work for you. Frankly, a school isn’t a safety if you don’t know if it’s affordable.</p>
<p>I agree, probably need to clarify your financial situation. Clemson is a great school and while you can get acceptance, you likely will not receive any significant scholarships (that are not need-based). If you are not sure if you will be able to afford a school like Clemson, you need financial safeties (schools you would be happy to go to but you are 100% sure you can pay for the school)</p>