Help with my college list & some advice?

<p>Hi everybody!
I'm working on my college list right now and I'm having a hard time making a realistic list. I'm primarily looking for colleges in Michigan or Midwest. My stats are not impressive in any way, shape, or form, but here they are:</p>

<p>-Rising Senior
-Low income Asian student from Michigan
-3.3 GPA & 21 ACT
-21 College credits at Macomb Community College (Will have 40 by the time I graduate next spring)
-State Level Swimmer for both Club & High School (Have been swimming competitively for 12 years)
-24 hours a week/6 days a week (With double practices)
-Worked at my family restaurant for 3 years (Freshman & Sophomore Year)
-16 hours a week/3 days a week
-Current Crew Member at McDonald's
-10 hours a week/2 days a week
-3.6 GPA at Macomb Community College</p>

<p>I plan on majoring in Economics or Criminal Justice in college</p>

<p>Here's my list so far:
-University of Michigan (Dream School)
-Michigan State University
-University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
-University of Missouri
-University of Texas- Austin
-Central Michigan University
-Grand Valley State University
-Iowa State University
-Bowling Green State University
-University of Toledo
-University of Akron
-Kansas State University
-University of Kansas
-Eastern Michigan University
-Western Michigan University
-Michigan Technological University</p>

<p>Are there any colleges that I shouldn't apply to? I checked every school on the list & my general education credits are transferable. Also, how many universities should I cut mine down to? </p>

<p>Thank You!</p>

<p>How were you planning to pay for the OOS colleges? Did you run the Net Price Calculators for each of these?</p>

<p>take off all of those OOS publics. You have modest stats and have no means to pay for them.</p>

<p>I am not sure what criteria you used for creating such a list, but paying the cost should have been a first priority. these OOS apps would be a total waste of time .</p>

<p>you dont have the stats for merit scholarships, so these OOS schools arent going to give you funds other then basic/low fed funds…not enough to pay for college.</p>

<p>I am not sure if even an instate Mich school will give enough aid, since only Umich gives full aid, and stats are too low. </p>

<p>Is there a Mich state school that you can commute to/
or go to a cc, do well, and transfer to UMich. </p>

<p>I was going to suggest Grand Valley.</p>

<p>I agree: forget the OOS publics. In some cases you won’t get in. In others, you won’t be able to pay for them if you do.</p>

<p>Unless you magically boost your ACT really significantly, also forget about U of M and MSU. I don’t know about your chances at the Michigan directionals.</p>

<p>I cut all all the OOS schools out of my list completely. And yes I checked the net price for everyone of them. </p>

<p>I picked University of Minnesota & University of Texas because my sister lives 30 minutes away from the university of texas and my brother lives 20 minutes away from university of Minnesota. I was planning on living with them to cut costs down. </p>

<p>Wayne State and Oakland University are both 30 minutes away from me, so I may commute and then transfer. I’ve been going to my CC for most of high school, it wouldn’t make much sense to go there post- high school. Plus I have enough credits to transfer to any school in Michigan and meet the criteria for MSU, but not UMich.</p>

<p>I also plan on retaking the ACT in September & currently studying from an ACT prep book.</p>

<p>You won’t get into UT. The admission rate for OOS students is 10% and it depends on very high class rank. It doesn’t appear you have that.</p>

<p>It’s looking like your best bets could be two OOS public unis: UToledo and UAkron. I don’t know if you can afford them.</p>

<p>Can you be recruited to any of these colleges as a swimmer?
Would you qualify for an athletic scholarship if you got recruited as a swimmer (especially at any nearby private colleges?)? Talk to your swimming coach about this.</p>

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<p>that still wont work. Cutting high costs down a little bit doesnt make the rest affordable.</p>

<p>1) you would still have to pay OOS tuition rates, plus books, fees, etc. You will only be given 11k in grants/loans. You would still have a chunk of costs uncovered.</p>

<p>2) you would have to drive back and forth…lots of gas, car maintenance, insurance, etc…how would those costs get paid. </p>

<p>3) you wouldnt get into UT, and may not get info Minn either.</p>

<p>Actually, I think this advice was way too hasty. Looking at University of Toledo, for example, I found this for OOS: <a href=“A to Z List”>A to Z List; . OP could get at least in state tuition w/ current stats as well as additional funds on the instate scholarship grid. Yes, these are stackable (OOS student gets in-state tuition PLUS any additional in-state scholarships from the grid: <a href=“A to Z List”>A to Z List). Warning, tho - these grids are changing. OOS scholarships will be more of a sliding scale or a grid, rather than a single 21 ACT/2.75 threshold, starting in 2015.</p>

<p>You should consider University of WI - River Falls and University of WI - Stout. Both are within 45 minutes of the Twin Cities. There is a Midwest Student Exchange Program where students of midwest states pay no more than 150% of instate tuition. So for UW-RF, the tuition would be $10,914. Stout’s tuition would be more.</p>

<p>I noticed recently that the University of Toledo has reduced the OOS scholarship rather substantially - it used to be they would in effect eliminate (w/ some academic hoops jumped) the OOS surcharge (~$9000) and charge in-state tuition instead. The OOS tuition scholarship is now $5000, and the remainder OOS surcharge is means-tested (based on FAFSA). Yes, you can still get up to the $9000 OOS surcharge, but there is now a need portion. They will still stack on top of the $5000 OOS scholarship, their in-state merit scholarships ($1500 - 6500), so UT is still a great place to consider.</p>