<p>I am a junior. While working on 5AP classes this year I am looking in to College requirements at a side. I think not too early.</p>
<p>I am not a National Merit Scholar and have SAT 2130. GPA so far hovering around 3.75.</p>
<p>Next 6 months it will remain the same and planning to take ACT to see the score gets better.</p>
<p>I lover liberal art schools not very one study stream specific schools like state schools. </p>
<p>What should be my short list of schools?</p>
<p>hah! would it were so easy, OP: just tap your shoes together and repeat, “there’s no place like home!”</p>
<p>go to college simply dot com and type in your SAT. It will give you a list of most of the hundreds of schools for which your SAT is appropriate, where you’re a match or slightly better than a match.</p>
<p>Create a list of a couple dozen schools or less that have your major and where you think you could be happy.</p>
<p>Then get real by running the net price calculator at each of the schools so that you have some idea of what they are likely to cost your family. The npc is found on the financial aid page of most schools. You’ll need your parents’ help. Then begin a conversation with your parents about how much they can afford to provide you each year for four years.</p>
<p>If there is a big gap between what they say and what the Expected Family Contribution is for that school, as derived from the npc, then you’re probably not going there unless the school will offer you something like a full tuition merit award. There are very few such schools.</p>
<p>At this point where you’e figuring out the money, you’re in the hunt for an education you can afford rather than one you’d love to have. Just as there’s no sense pining away for the ivy league school you don’t have the stats for, there’s no sense pining away for the liberal arts college you cannot afford. You’re not going there and you’ll have to look elsewhere for your education, like to your state public schools.</p>
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<p>How do you know that you’re not going to become a NMSF? Did you get your PSAT score? What was it??
Students find out if they’re NMSF/F when they are SENIORS.</p>
<p>What is your home state?</p>
<p>What is your major and career goal?</p>
<p>What is your SAT breakdown?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
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<p>What are you saying above? Is English your first language? </p>
<p>At our high school, you have a preliminary meeting with your guidance counselor and your parents participating in winter of your junior year. There is a huge six-school college fair in late spring where you can go to several panels with different colleges participating as well as to each one’s table to pick up information. You are probably already beginning to receive mailings from various colleges.
You need to develop some parameters such as large vs. small school, urban vs suburban or rural, private vs public, discussing with your parents the financial aspects such as how much they plan to pay, you might have some idea of what you might want to study and then you begin to craft a list. Your guidance counselor will have recommendations once your develop some basic parameters. It may vary as well depending on what state you live in. In NY, the guidance counselor will have a pretty good idea based on your test scores, GPA and your profile as a student as to which of the state schools are reach, match and safety and they have knowledge of how students with similar stats and profiles have done in the past applying to Ivies and so on.</p>
<p>I was typing fast , last line in the question did not make sense at all. I didnt see an “edit” button here</p>
<p>You only have 15 minutes to edit. There is a gear in the upper right of your post for that. </p>
<p>So what does " not very one study stream specific schools like state schools" mean</p>
<p>You didn’t give much to go on except your SAT and you like LAC. So that’s something but leaves a couple hundred colleges at least. We liked reading the Fiske Guide to Colleges, plenty of LAC in there. Also Colleges that Change lives has a website and they are all LAC I believe. Try reading this top post:to give more parameters:
<a href=“Before you ask which colleges to apply to, please consider - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>Before you ask which colleges to apply to, please consider - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums;