<p>My daughter is a smarty pants, not a rocket scientist, but very bright. She is a high school junior with a 31 on her ACT, unweighted GPA of 4.0, and will have taken 8 AP classes when she graduates. </p>
<p>She is interested in the research side of regenerative cells. She has not ruled out med school, but is leaning much more towards the research side of things. We are at a complete loss and getting NO help from our school.</p>
<p>Thus far, she is considering some type of BioMedical/BioChem program at the following universities. </p>
<p>University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Washington, Seattle
Tulaine
Duke</p>
<p>Are we on track or do others have ideas we have not thought of? She is trying to keep $$ in check. We are willing to pay $25K a year towards her college and she would like to keep her loans down. </p>
<p>i’ll throw UAB (Birmingham) at you. It has a very strong biomedical program, is extremely well funded by the NIH, has a medical school with many programs in the top 10 in the country. with her current marks/scores, she would receive merit aid and would have about 9-10K per year left to pay. If she is an NMF she would get a full ride.</p>
<p>It is an urban campus…not traditional old buildings etc. dorms are suite style, fantastic rec center for students.
Has a wonderful sci/tech honors program and if accepted into that program…they pay for your phd at UAB.</p>
<p>if you would like more info feel free to pm me.</p>
<p>Case Western, Rose Hulman - both very good and her stats are likely to earn her good merit aid. And Harvey Mudd and Caltech meet need, but have little (Mudd) to no (Caltech) merit money.</p>
<p>if she wants to get into the sciences, Emory is great too. if you make less than 100k, you will get financial aid. anything less than 50k and you get full ride with no loans. also, Emory have research place in one of their hospitals thats right on campus that does stem cell research (regenerative cells?). her 4.0 is great and if she raises her ACT a little more she might get Emory scholars (which ranges from 15k to full ride).</p>
<p>She won’t get merit money at the Ivies and comparable, because those schools give need money only. But just below those are schools who want to steal your daughter away, and her stats are definitely good enough for merit $. There’s also a thread somewhere (I couldn’t find it) on “guaranteed scholarships” or the like - schools where you plug in your stats and out pops a number.</p>
<p>She would be a good candidate for merit aid at Dickinson. Someone else can correct me if I am wrong, but she is not likely to garner merit aid from Duke with her stats.</p>
<p>She got a 1940 on her SAT, I do not remember the breakdown and a 10 on her writing. She has taken the SAT(1940) and the ACT (31) once so far. Currently waiting on the scores from her second try at both.</p>
<p>robd…dont think UA has biomedical engineering though OP didnt specifically say biomedical engineer. UAB does also have the md/phd program if she chose medical research. (UAB will end up cheaper than UA as its dorm costs are lower)</p>
<p>^^^p56: yup, I’m pretty sure you’re right, although I know there’s some specialty bio programs at UA (what can I say, my kids a history major…) but someone mentioned UA upstream and I wanted to share specifics.</p>
<p>University of Rochester (NY) has is top-notch in biomed.</p>
<p>Look up organizations and associations in the field of interest. They often have listings of which colleges offer different types of degrees and areas. We were able to do that for physics and astronomy at the American Institute of Physics.</p>
<p>plus, its 27k for out of state students so if you are willing to pay 25k, then she wont have to take too much loans. she has good stats so she might get a scholarship that can cover the rest. (ga tech is 70% male so they want more girls) </p>
<p>also, Duke is #2 but its also twice as expensive</p>
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