<p>I will be a junior next year. I am looking for some ideas of colleges that I should look at. I'm interested in aerospace engineering, video game design, and robotic (used in a space program). My current gpa is 3.86. Next year I will be taking AP Eng. Lang, APUSH, precalc, chemistry etc. I currently live in Utah but would consider going oos except not to the east coast. Any ideas?</p>
<p>I originally looked at Aerospace Engineering, its not too common of a major. Notre Dame has it though. Also I don’t know if its too east coast for you but Syracuse University has AE, and they are one of three colleges to have a full flight simulator as well.</p>
<p>If you’re open to going oos, you may want to look into the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and purdue. Those are both supposed to have pretty good aerospace engineering programs.</p>
<p>If you’re looking to go out west, there are a handful of great (but competitive) schools like UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, and UNiversity of southern Cali that all offer aerospace as well. Is there anything else in particular you’re looking for in a school? School size? Sports? Clubs?</p>
<p>I think I want a school around 10-20,000 students but that kinda of scares me since my high school is small. I would like a good club/intramural program.</p>
<p>In anything in particular?</p>
<p>I play soccer/baseball/basketball so I would like a school that offers them. Also, a school with good student/instructor ratio as well as a school that offers need based aid. I hope to get scholarships but, if I don’t, need based aid would really help because my mom doesn’t make much money as a teacher.</p>
<p>From what you’ve told me, I think purdue would e a decent fit… You may want to also look into the university of Washington and although it’s on the east coast, the university of virginia. Also, have you given any thought to Texas A&M ? </p>
<p>I recall someone telling me that loyola university Chicago also had aerospace and I know that it’s possible to receive need an merit based scholarships there. I have a friend that was granted $30,000 there (she ended up going to purdue, and she’s actually planning on majoring in aerospace engineering too)</p>
<p>Also, a side note about the university of Washington- their main campus is the one in Seattle, however they have two ther campuses, one in bothell and one in Tacoma. The campuses in bothell and Tacoma are much smaller than the Seattle campus. I mention this because if you are admitted to one of the campuses, many people don’t know that you can still take classes at the other smaller campuses. (there are some technicalities with house many classes you can take at a different campus and still have it count toward your major, but that might be a good option for you too)</p>
<p>terinzak, I recommend you and your Mom calculate your EFC (Expected Family Contribution) on the Collegeboard website. Choose both financial aid formulas: FM & IM. </p>
<p>Keep hitting “Save” so you can save your numbers and refer back to it. Use the 2010 Federal tax returns. </p>
<p>If you have a divorce situation in your family, many schools may want the Non-Custodial parent’s financial information, usually private schools that use the CSS PROFILE. Also be aware that if you have a step parent, their income & assets will also be considered at many PROFILE and/or private schools. </p>
<p>Buy the book “Paying for College without Going Broke” by Kalman Chany, Princeton Review. Get both the 2011 & the 2010 Editions, as the 2011 Edition has no EFC calculation for the IM. (Institutional Methodology).</p>
<p>With such a specific and rare major, you might want to consider that you could need to travel to the east coast. Specifically, Embry-Riddle. Another school to look into might be University of Colorado.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech might be worth a look. Best of luck!</p>