<p>I don't know anything about schools in your particular area of interest. Hopefully some posters will have specific suggestions. My gut level feeling is that the schools which meet 100% of need are the schools which consider ECs. </p>
<p>What you might want to do is take a two-pronged approach. Go to your school's career center or head down to a bookstore and read college guides to find out about schools with good programs in your area of interest. Then check out the schools' websites to see if they have merit aid available in addition to need-based aid and what criteria they look for in awarding such aid. Again, a lot of these merit aid packages will include ECs when making decisions, but I think there are probably some schools which are going to be more numbers driven. </p>
<p>CUNY Baruch. No, it's not what you had in mind; I know that. However, Baruch's school of business is one of the best in the nation. If $ matters, apply there. Also look at Babson College. </p>
<p>Both of these are highly ranked for business.</p>
<p>Do you attend religious services somewhere? If so, get involved helping out in a ministry. If not, think about it. It's great to help others--more blessings than college admissions.</p>
<p>I don't like to step on anyone's toes but you better start building ECs and hopefully it is not too late. Even if you had perfect SAT and GPA and Valedictorian, Harvard-Yale-Princeton-Wharton-Stanford-MIT will reject you unquestioningly even if you had affirmative action on your side if you don't have ECs. Someone without ECs will signal to college that they are lazy and unpassionate and possess no leadership qualities[Not that I am saying you are since you may have other things to do that fills up your time]. Colleges want someone who can bring something unique to their campus, be it participation in an activity or starting out a new club or helping the school win a division title or playing music in the orchestra or acting in the play, you have to have something you can bring to the table for the ivies to take even a look at you. Best of luck and work hard!!!</p>
<p>NYU gives shaft financial aid, just so you know.<br>
Unless you're willing to take out mad loans, it might be off the table if aid is a major concern.</p>
<p>On what is your assumption of your future SAT I scores based? Noone can really offer solid advice to you without more information about your GPA & actual standardized test scores, as well as any interests and/or accomplishments.</p>
<p>JMJM-you sound like my son, who, based on his temperament type, isn't much of a leader or a joiner. He's all the way over on the "I" side on the Extrovert/Introvert scale. Maybe if you knew your personality type you could compose great essays justifying your "rugged" individualism and independence from pressures to cave to convention, if that is indeed your true type. I'm just now coming to grips with the "we are who we are" thing, because my son is the only introvert out of a family of five, and I certainly would be doing him no favors trying to gently and lovingly force the square guy into a round hole. So good luck! Maybe highlighting your marching to a different drummer would catch the attention of the adcoms. You just need to present the non-joining as the exercizing a conscious intrapersonal strength, a striving for authenticity rather than a default state of being "too lazy" or "too selfish" to get involved with ec's. Because I suspect that most people think that those students who don't have ec's on their resumes don't have a good enough reasonfor that state of affairs.</p>
<p>"You just need to present the non-joining as the exercizing a conscious intrapersonal strength, a striving for authenticity rather than a default state of being "too lazy" or "too selfish" to get involved with ec's. Because I suspect that most people think that those students who don't have ec's on their resumes don't have a good enough reasonfor that state of affairs."</p>
<p>I agree with investorscooter; see what you can do with that. Also, perhaps you could work in that you do a lot of reading, if that is true.</p>
<p>I think the challenge for somebody who is not a "joiner" is to demonstrate that you use your time in some positive way, and don't just sit around playing video games--which is probably what the typical non-joiner is doing.</p>