I need help with match colleges?

College Search & Selection
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<p>So I've been searching colleges and have come up with a lot of reaches, some safeties, but not so many matches. Also, I need matches that would have a good chance of giving me great financial aid or don't have crazy tuitions. I want to go to school in either the New England area (not Maine though) or Southern California. Thanks!</p>

<p>SAT: 2130 superscored (720/660/750) I plan to take it again.
SAT II: haven't taken them yet but I plan to score high on Literature and decently in Math
GPA: 3.89 (all honors courses and APs at a very competitive/challenging high school), 3.88 freshman, 3.91 sophomore, and pending on cumulative junior but i think this is my overall GPA
AP: took AP Chem will find out next week, schedule doesn't allow for more than one or two APs
Awards: Scholastic Silver Key in Poetry
Schoolwide Awards: these are given at the end of the year to the one or two best students in each teacher's class out of everyone in the grade; None Freshman year, Sophomore: Trig and English, most likely would have received Language award if my teacher had not left in the middle of the year...Junior: Medical-related Elective, French,AP Chemistry, Physics, English</p>

<p>ECs:
Minority-oriented county-wide club: will be Co-President next year; 2 years
HOSA: 1st at regionals, 3rd at states, attended National Conference, will be Co-President; 3 years
National Honor Society- 2 years
Interact Club- 3 years
Juvenile Conference Committee- 3 years; assist in juvenile court cases</p>

<p>Personal Stats:
African American
Female
New Jersey
Attend a very competitive magnet school
Rising Senior
No rank but will be placed in top GPA Cluster</p>

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<p>What’s your intended major? How do you feel about liberal arts colleges? Women’s colleges?</p>

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<p>what do you think you might major in?</p>

<p>have you run any of the net price calculators and rec’d any feedback from your parents about what they’re willing to provide?</p>

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<p>Maybe if you provided a list of colleges that you are currently interested in, it would be easier for people to answer your question.
I mean I’m relatively new to this website so it may just be me, but I have no idea what you look for in a college because you haven’t told me/ us.
Like I see you have won an award in poetry and that maybe you like it and so I could possibly recommend Smith College, but I don’t know if you would want to go to a women’s college or not. </p>

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<p>My intended major is international relations. My current list of colleges: 1. Berkeley
2. Stanford
3. UCLA
4. USC</p>

<p>East:

  1. Boston University
  2. Brandeis
  3. Columbia
  4. GWU
  5. Montclair
  6. Northeastern
  7. Northwestern
  8. NYU
  9. Princeton
  10. Rutgers
  11. Tufts
  12. University of Pennsylvania
  13. UMass Amherst
  14. UConn
  15. University of Texas</p>
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<p>I don’t want to go to a liberal arts college</p>

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<p>Go to Match College Dot Com and search home–>social sciences–>international relations by state. Some schools will have graduate degrees but no bachelors. You’ll find plenty. UMass, Lehigh, etc.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and UCLA will be too expensive from out-of-state; there’s no financial aid given for the $23000/year out of state fee. </p>

<p>For USC, I recommend applying by the scholarship deadline (December 1st). The scholarships are reaches for everyone, but admissions itself should be a match. They meet 100% of need, albeit their own determined need, but it could work out depending on your EFC (expected family contribution). Run the net price calculator: <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/applying_receiving/npc/”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/applying_receiving/npc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Stanford’s hyper-competitive to get into, but if you do, they have super aid. They also meet 100% of determined need, but since they have a crazy endowment, their packages are most generous. Same with Princeton.</p>

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<p>Wait what’s your home state? I really think you should shorten your list, removing out-of-state public schools (not worth the price) & privates with horrible aid & no merit (such as NYU). Since you said you needed more matches, though:</p>

<p>Boston College (net price calc: <a href=“Net Price Calculator”>Net Price Calculator)
U of Rochester (net price calc: <a href=“http://enrollment.rochester.edu/financial/estimator”>http://enrollment.rochester.edu/financial/estimator&lt;/a&gt;)
Wesleyan University (net price calc: <a href=“Wesleyan University - Net Price Calculator”>Wesleyan University - Net Price Calculator)
USC, Brandeis, & Northeastern are already on your list (also matches)</p>