Hi! I am a junior from New Hampshire, looking into communications / marketing and nonprofit management majors. I have a 3.3 unweighted GPA, 3.8 weighted, and t will likely go up after my junior year. I’m currently in AP art, APUSH, and AP Lang, and I took AP World last year. I can graduate debt free if we can keep the cost to 30k/yr, which may be doable some places. So far I’m looking at ASU Downtown Phoenix, Eckerd College, UTampa, USF(fl & ca), Portland State, UNC Asheville and UNC Wilmington.
Budget? Never mind -I posted too fast.
As you can probably see I’m definitely open to going far from New England and I would much prefer to be in a warm and urban environment. Hopefully a school with decent merit aid or my stats (hard to find, I know), and one that is liberal leaning.
Have you looked at USC Columbia? My D visited. They give merit, and it is certainly urban. Not sure if it is liberal leaning ? but big enough where you should be able to find your people.
Also check out this thread:http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/52133-schools-known-for-good-merit-aid.html#latest
Take a look at Guilford (NC) and Whittier (CA).