<p>By the way, I'm her mother. Paul is our surname.</p>
<p>Well she started working in the lab yesterday. This is her second year working at a chemistry lab at NYU. There was nothing to do in the lab so she went online to collegeboard.com and filled out the profile. Only 5 schools popped up. She put 30-50% minority in the profile which I told her is not realistic to any non HBCU colleges in the U.S.
She wants a diverse school. The only schools her friends talk about is SUNY Stonybrook.</p>
<p>I guess its a start in our long search.</p>
<p>I only make $37K a year so merit and based and non based aid is needed. </p>
<p>She dropped the film major and is only Pre-med.
Major: maybe Bio/Biochem/Chem</p>
<p>Do you know of any scholarships she can fill out now. She has a fastweb account.
Her gpa this semester dropped to an 89.4 because of all of the "stress" she incurred.</p>
<p>If you have any suggestions for school let me know.</p>
<p>University of Rochester, well known among New Yorkers, SUNY stonybrook is many times looked at as the "safety" for Rochester, so kids who dont get in go to stonybrook.</p>
<p>she seems like a bright kid, she's premed, and Rochester is very heavy with diversity, and probably the best thing at it is their premed program. </p>
<p>Rutgers University, very diverse, state school but close to home/yet far away, if she gets into the honors college and does premed there she is pretty set. </p>
<p>NYU/Columbia, what are her stats like?</p>
<p>UR seems good tho, look into it and see if there is a spark.</p>
<p>I have a suggestion; since you revealed your surname, you may want to change your screen name and keep on going on future threads with more anonymity, or just be very sure that your posts can't come back to haunt your d. Most of the people on CC are really great but you never know who is reading...</p>
<p>I agree paulchem. Though I did not use any recognizable name, one of my D's classmates recognized her stats on the site and began to harrass her. I changed my name after consulting with the moderator.</p>
<p>The top 10 prestige private liberal arts college for the enrollment of low-income students, according to the Journal of Black Studies, are (in order): Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Barnard, Wellesley, Oberlin, Trinity, Amherst, Macalester, Hamilton, and Bryn Mawr. You could get a great pre-med education at any one of them. Note that SATs at Mt. Holyoke are optional.</p>
<p>Many of the sisters are smaller schools with relatively big (for their size) endowments. They can be generous with aid and have programs that woo URMs.</p>
<p>(In the JBHE survey, they noted that Barnard and Macalester are dropping, likely because, relative to the others, they aren't that wealthy, or willing to continue to commit that many bucks that way.)</p>
<p>Sometimes the college board thing spits out some weird results. It think that some of the colleges recommended above are also great. Please see if she is willing to look at the women's colleges. They are great schools and very supportive.</p>
<p>Kent SU
U Maryland Baltimore Co
U maryland College Park</p>
<p>Please keep in mind unless your child is at the very top of the applicant pool, it is very hard to get into a state univerisity as an out of state applicnat. </p>
<p>In addition if student is not at the top of the applicant pool, honor program or in line for some major merit, FA at these schools for out of state students will be pretty non-existent (exceptions, pell if eligible and loans). However, many public schools offer a great education for considerably less than the 40K/year privates.</p>
<p>NYU is going to be a wild card because they do not give good aid. They gap and are very heavy on loans and work study. Mini gave you a really decent list of schools which are really worth looking into. D, who is also pre-med applied to and was accepted at 4 : Mt. Holyoke, Barnard,Amherst, and Bryn Mawr. </p>
<p>When we first started looking at schools, D was totally against women's colleges. After visiting, sitting in on classes and asking questions, she found that they are wonderful supportive environments where your daughter will get a great education. All gave her some pretty good financial aid (making it affordable. Surprisingly, she even got a TAP award from Barnard). They are all pretty diverse and I personally felt that they did do a good job of embracing and supporting african american students.</p>
<p>She is against Catholic and women colleges. We have not started visting any colleges yet. She doesn't know which ones to go to.</p>
<p>Also she thinks that you have to get a pre-med bachelor degree to get into med schoo. I told her you can major in anything and get into med school. I didn't even know there was an actual pre-med degree.</p>
<p>So what schools will give good FA and merit based on her stats. She has been looking up schools when she has nothing to do at work. I've been emailing your comments to her. She is too lazy to come on the site. She has been going on fastweb to look for scholarships.</p>
<p>paulchem, do try to take a trip to see at least one womens' college.</p>
<p>My D was against them too but we did visit Smith when in the area looking at another school. She wound up applying there because she could see she could be very happy there once she actually looked.</p>
<p>In your D's case some of the very best schools for excellence in pre med, diversity and financial aid are women's colleges. It is silly not to at least take a peek at them. Also: Bryn Mawr has Haverford right next door (you can even live on the Haverford campus); Scripps has Pomona, Calremont, etc; Smith & Holyoke have Amherst & UMass...</p>
<p>Paulchem,
S and I recently visited UMBC and were very impressed with the school. It seems to be a welcoming place that encourages students to attain high academic standards, and helps them attain such standards. I suggest that you and your D visit. </p>
<p>You also might want to check out their president's new book, which is about how African American females can attain academic success.</p>