you might look into UT Dallas - very generous merit based awards, good track record for graduates getting into med school.
Make sure having an address in OK is enough to be considered a resident. You might have been expected to go to HS in that state or have a parent who lives there and pays taxes. I don’t know what the rules are, but please make sure you are eligible for state tuition
Having an address in Oklahoma does not mean you’ll be granted instate tuition rates. Does a parent LIVE there? Work there? Because your hs diploma will come from OOS, it’s likely they’ll look closely at your application for instate status.
Many Catholic schools have very good merit aid, and are sometimes cheaper to begin with, but you are looking for financial safeties, and only schools with guaranteed need based aid or merit aid are going to fit that definition. On your list, the only financial safety is Vandy.
Neither UWisconsin nor UMass Amherst will provide you with financial aid.
Assuming 4.0, 4-8 AP classes or similar rigor, and 1450/SAT:
In the Midwest, run the NPC on Grinnell (reach), StOlaf (match), Beloit (safety, quirky), Illinois Wesleyan, Earlham (safeties), DePauw (very Greek), Albion (safety), Valparaiso, and further east Denison, Dickinson (match), Muhlenberg (safety), St Lawrence (match), Skidmore, Kenyon (reaches).
If you’re OK with Catholic schools, add UScranton, St Michael’s, Saint Louis university, Siena, St Anselm, UEvansville. Different sorts of Catholicism so look at the requirements and the environment.
If you have fewer APs and/or a lower score, matches become reaches and safeties beciem matches.
All are very good for premed and meet need.
If you want a larger school and do have a 1450, Temple, UMN, UIowa, UCincinnati, OhioU, MiamiOhio, Montana State, but be aware weeding is more likely there.
@citymama9 I’ll check up on that, thanks.
@3scoutsmom That’ great. I’ll consider it
@MYOS1634 Thanks a lot.
@twoinanddone Thanks. I’m actually glad to hear that about Vandy.
Is Brandeis generous though?
Don’t guess. Run the NPC on every single college listed on this thread.
(Brandeis “meets need” but they define need, so run the NPC to see if they think you can afford $1,000 or $9,000…)
I love my alma mater (UW-Madison) but you probably won’t get much, if anything, in financial aid… so you would be paying about $40k per year, which is not affordable.
If your NPC results are acceptable for Vandy and Georgetown – both reaches for most unhooked students – you could look at some other schools that offer strong need-based aid.
Here are some:
Reaches:
Ivies
Top-20(ish) LACs
Stanford
UChicago
MIT
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Washington U in St. Louis
Rice
Notre Dame
Not quiiiiite as reachy, but still awesome:
Emory
Carnegie Mellon (SCS and Eng are reaches…)
Tufts
USC
Wake Forest
Boston College
U of Rochester
Brandeis
Tulane
Lehigh
Case Western
Northeastern
LACs ranked about 21-40
Moving more into match range here, and the fin aid might not be quite as strong – still, check NPC:
Miami (FL)
SMU
Villanova
Fordham
Pepperdine
Marquette
Syracuse
TCU
Santa Clara
LACs ranked about 41-70
Safeties – these are typically schools with at least a 50% admit rate where your stats (GPA, SAT/ACT) are at or above the 75th percentile. Find some schools where this is the case and run NPC – as you should for all schools you are interested in – to make reasonably sure they are affordable.
Finally, there are schools with automatic merit scholarships, like the U of Alabama. Use Google to find more and then if you like them, you might consider applying. If your parents can afford $8k per year, you’d have to get a pretty hefty scholarship, but the auto merit schools are worth checking on, at least.
Get that 1450 and if your GPA is strong, you’ll have a shot at at getting into at least some of these schools (and others like them). Pick a bunch that you like academically, environmentally and socially – reaches, matches and a safety or two – and run NPC to make sure you can afford them. Then work hard to put together solid apps.
@prezbucky Thanks a lot!
Some private colleges only market to private school kids. A 50% acceptance rates are based on the number of applications the receive. Big colleges that advertise a lot and have professionals/volunteers post on this site, get more applications. Certain private schools like Sewanee and DePauw want private school kids so their marketing is more selective, and in turn, receive fewer applications, but the pool is based on the type of students they truly want.
I suggest that you review this list of colleges that guarantee to meet 100% of your demonstrated financial need. While the sticker price of most is $70k plus, they have the resources and a commitment to fund admitted students regardless of their income. With your very low EFC if you can get in these could be good options.
http://www.thecollegesolution.com/list-of-colleges-that-meet-100-of-financial-need/
@jen2016, I don’t think certain colleges only market to private school kids; if they are pursuing full pay kids, those can be found aplenty in high income areas dominated by public schools.
@jen2016 @nehiker @Chembiodad Thanks a lot!!
You may want to see if any of the schools in this list are suitable:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20798968/#Comment_20798968
Verify scholarships on school web sites, since some may have changed. Note: full tuition may or may not be enough, depending on living expenses. But there are some which are greater than full tuition.
@ucbalumnus Thanks for your help!
Sewanee, University of the South was pretty open about it during freshman orientation. Of course, schools don’t only market to private school kids.
True.