<p>Beware: “in state” (vs. out of state) is only an advantage for public universities. For private universities, it’s actually a slight advantage to come from out of state, in fact the farther away you come from the bigger the nudge both for admission and for “preferential packaging” (financial aid).
So UCF, USF, FSU (UF), FAU or FIU are all “in state” for you - BTW, I would try for New College or FAU’s Harriet Wilkes College, too, and I’d look at UWF before FIU unless you’re going for Marine Science (you’re a shoo in for honors college at FIU - honors college = many perks + scholarships).
However UMiami is a private university so your instate status won’t help much and it’s basically out of reach academically, meaning that even if you got in it’s likely be unaffordable. You’d have to get a stratospheric SAT/ACT score and have awesome EC’s to have a shot but as I said it’s not even certain you’d get proper financial aid.
FL privates are are within reach for you include Flagler and Eckerd.
Depending on how much your family can pay, look into TCNJ, UMiami-Ohio, UAlabama (if you can get your GPA to a 3.5 UW and a 32 ACT), College of Charleston.
If you will need financial aid look into the 100% aid schools - they’re very to highly selective so I’m not sure you’d be competitive though. I think St Olaf and Gettysburg are the easiest to get into.
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