is my college list good?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I want to know if i have enough safety schools/match schools/reach schools based on my stats? </p>

<p>So here's my list </p>

<ol>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Barnard </li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Wesleyan </li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Tulane </li>
<li>UW</li>
<li>Fordham
12 .Depaul </li>
</ol>

<p>and here are my stats </p>

<p>UW GPA 3.8
Upward trend i.e. Fr: 3.6 Soph: 3.7 Junior: 4.0</p>

<p>URM, African American</p>

<p>I've taken all of the advance classes available to me.
EVERY SINGLE ONE. except for like acc spanish..because i take french...</p>

<p>Fr: Honors English/Honors World Studies/ I also started French 2 as a freshman if that counts as rigor?
Soph: Honors English/AP European History/Advanced College Credit French 3
Junior: Advanced College Credit US History/Advanced College Credit French 4</p>

<p>Next years course load
ACC Lit and Composition
AP Bio
AP Stats
AP Calc
ACC French 5 (Only student)
Economics/American Film Studies</p>

<p>ACT: 31 (went from 30 to 31)</p>

<p>My recommendations will be flawless btw.
To give some sort of reference, i was in my guidance counselor's office and she told me she thought that my high school had won the lottery by getting to have me as a student.</p>

<p>My essay is about being raised by lesbians and how it's affected me in my acceptance of my family and of myself.</p>

<p>Extra curriculars:</p>

<p>Tennis 4 years (JV for 2, Varsity for 2)
French Club 4 years (Club President next year)
JSA (2 years) / Youth in Government (2 years)
Sophomore Class Council Representative / Senior Class Treasurer
Drama Club/Plays (4 years)
Scholar Bowl Varsity Team (2 years)
Model UN Club President</p>

<p>*some ECs end at 2 years because i transferred schools between sophomore and junior year so it's not quite as scattered as it seems. my new school didn't have the ECs my old school did.</p>

<p>Volunteering</p>

<p>200 + Volunteer hours at a pediatric hospital and a regular hospital</p>

<p>I'd appreciate it if you could tell me if i need to add more safety schools or more match schools or if my safety schools aren't safe enough, etc. </p>

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<p>If you are not in very comfortable financial circumstances, I recommend adding one or two financial safeties: either colleges where you can be certain of a generous scholarship award, or in-state public colleges. </p>

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<p>^^ I agree. </p>

<p>Right now your list looks top heavy on schools that give little financial aid. Have you sat down with your moms and run the NET PRICE CALCULATOR (<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/features/net-price-calculator”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/features/net-price-calculator&lt;/a&gt;) on all your schools? If your family makes between $65k and $100k, you’ll probably receive okay financial aid from most of the colleges on your list. However, if your family makes between $100k and $160k, you’re not going to get much aid from many of the schools on your list, including Brown, Barnard, Tufts, Boston U, Wesleyan and NYU – they just don’t have the endowment for that. If your family makes over $160k, you’re likely to get no aid, so I hope your moms can afford to pay the full sticker price at all those schools! </p>

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<p>@gibby‌ @woogzmama‌ at schools like Rice, Brown, Barnard and Tufts, they give you your full need which for us brings the cost down to about 20k which my mom has said she is comfortable paying if i pay for medical school later on and when i did the Boston U calculator my parental contribution was only 10k because of the amount of scholarships i would receive due to my stats being higher than most students who apply so i think i’m okay financially but as far as admissions is there a chance that i won’t get accepted to any of those schools? </p>

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<p>^^ One thing to keep in mind: Some schools like Boston University will give you merit aid based on your high school stats but JUST for freshman year – they DO NOT give aid for those stats in subsequent years. So, you would owe more money in your sophomore, junior and senior years. NYU does the same the thing.</p>

<p>FWIW: Boston U, NYU, Fordham, Tulane, DePaul are NOT on this list – and if you need financial aid, they may be not be good financial choices for you and your family: <a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2013/09/18/colleges-that-claim-to-meet-full-financial-need-2014”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2013/09/18/colleges-that-claim-to-meet-full-financial-need-2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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If I could predict that, I would make a lot of money. Brown and Barnard will be a reach.</p>

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<p>I want to commend you for being one of the few students I have seen here who seems to have a balanced list of reaches, targets and safeties. I am proud of you. In terms of financial aid, Tulane has a broad base of merit aid available but they have very specific (and early) deadlines. I strongly encourage you to apply for those. For all of your schools, google “Merit aid” and then the name of the school. You will be able to relatively easily search for each school and what they offer. Some schools have merit aid for which you do not apply (your application to the college acts as a merit aid app); others like Tulane require separate applications. They can require different things and have different deadlines than their standard application deadlines, so check.</p>

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<p>@gibby Really? So if I go to BU, my soph, junior, and senior years will be more expensive? Or, if I have a high GPA, will I still get some sort of scholarship? I don’t get it. That’s a horrible and unfair practice. It might make m want to transfer out if I end up going there because I don’t know how much aid I’ll get (I ran the NPC for it but some of the information I am unsure of).</p>

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<p>You have to read the fine print for each scholarship. Some scholarships are renewable for four years and some are not. Some scholarships require an application with additional essays and some do not. Some scholarships require that you submit your application by Dec 1st to be eligible and some do not. Every college has specific rules for scholarships, so you need to check the websites for all the colleges on your list.</p>

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<p>Are you in state for the public schools on your list? If not, you need to include your state flagship school. They may not be affordable if OOS.</p>