<p>Yes, student is a senior this year. They realize they’re starting very late in the game and are feeling overwhelmed.</p>
<p>mom60, what smaller schools might you suggest for photography? Biola was on the list but that won’t give much aid. I’ll go back to College Board’s Big Future and see what it comes up with. I really do think she has talent in photography and she’s a good strong writer, or at least that’s my understanding. I’ll be getting an essay from her to evaluate.</p>
<p>Ok, it looks like I need to go school by school to see which ones are on the WUE list.</p>
<p>I’ll encourage the student to apply to NAU and U of Oregon this weekend. If she can get another app. off, all the better.</p>
<p>What about any of the Claremont schools? Way too reachy? No photography? </p>
<p>Trying to find schools that might give a boost to Hispanic background, have photography/photojournalism, are in the general SAT ball park, and have a vibrant social life.</p>
<p>Yes, you can start on the WUE website to see which colleges participate, but then you must go to the individual college websites for the details of how they administer WUE. It can range from automatic if certain standards are met to being very competitive like a merit scholarship.</p>
<p>UOregon COA for OOS is ca. 42k for this school year and goes up annually. While they may get some small financial incentive to attend, the family needs to determine whether this is a financially viable option and warrants a visit, particularly given the CA options they have.</p>
<p>As far as the Claremonts and some other schools, won’t only 0-1 Subject test be limiting with no ACT?</p>
<p>I haven’t checked on subject test requirements at Claremont schools, but you’re probably right. Back to Big Future to see what small to mid-size schools might fit the bill. I’m not sure what subject test she should take, but I was thinking the lit test. I’ll talk with the family.</p>
<p>What SAT subject test(s) to take, if any, depend on what the colleges she is applying to require or recommend (which is sometimes dependent on the intended major). Many do not require or recommend any; it appears that those which do usually want to see two and may specify which ones.</p>
<p>The only additional ones would be if she is fluent in a foreign language but does not have any high school course work in it (i.e. native or heritage speaker) and wants to show the colleges that she does have that knowledge (AP tests are also sometimes used for this purpose). But such a test would be in addition to any required or recommended by the colleges, since colleges often do not like to see native or heritage language tests being used as one of the two (or rarely three) they ask for.</p>
<p>If she wants a large college Kenyon will be a nightmare, I think they have about 1200 students total in a pretty remote and rural area. It’s also, with Oberlin, one of the tougher LACs to get into in Ohio…especially for women.</p>
<p>Other Ohio LACs are also interested in diversity and might be a better fit. Can’t think of any with photography majors offhand, however.</p>
<p>Be aware that the numbers you are citing from the CBs BF are for all applicants, the acceptance rate will generally be lower for OOS applicants; and the exception is usually for those who are willing to pay full OOS tuition.</p>
<p>I don’t think the Claremont colleges give merit aid.
The school my D got a great Merit award from is Earlham. It is very liberal.
Northern Arizona should be a super quick app. At least when my kids applied they did not have any essay or short answer requirement. Univ of Montana was also no essay.
Univ of the Pacific might give some merit aid with a boast for Hispanic. Location might be a turnoff.
My d has friends who received decent merit from Seattle Pacific and Univ of Seattle.</p>
<p>UW has a photography major. If she decides against photography, she may also want to look at WSU and its mirror-twin, University of Idaho. Tons of school spirit, an interactive student body, and they both seem to be attracting some top Seattle area students not wanting to go to UW. WSU has a nationally famous journalism program.</p>
<p>When we were looking for WUE/WICHE schools, CU Boulder does not have any and CSU only offers a few. CU did offer some great scholarships to a friend’s daughter who is there now, making it less than UW instate.</p>
<p>I’ve got her going on three schools: UNM, NAU, and Colorado State Univ. All are a part of the WICHE and all have photography. I’ll also have her apply to Cal State Long Beach and Sacramento State (if she wants to).</p>
<p>Coe College is small but it does come up as having photography. It seems to be a match school but I don’t think scholarships would be enough. When I see the family again, I might try to see if she’ll apply to one smaller school.</p>
<p>Other schools still to explore:</p>
<p>Bowling Green
IUPUI
MIZZOU
OSU
Western Washington</p>
<p>I did a search on West and Midwest schools with a photography major and there were 76 schools that showed up. Purdue was one of them, Big 10 school, great match for size and sports, weather will be agreeable compared to Colorado, etc., </p>
<p>Coe College, while a smaller school, is pretty much in downtown Cedar Rapids and will ‘feel’ bigger. They are Division III for sports and don’t have very good sports teams overall so that might be an issue for a student that wants a sports campus.</p>
<p>sbjdorlo:
What is preventing me from offering any input is that there is nothing in “this student’s” voice, passion, or character that is coming through at all. It feels like you’re a hired hand, or even her mother, who is trying do the student’s homework.</p>
<p>Imagine how it will feel to this student when she ends up in a school next fall where much of the legwork that got her there came from some adult.</p>
<p>jpm50—well, you are talking about 90% of the kids on CC then if you think that a student is failing because a parent did the legwork. Why are you on CC? :D.</p>
<p>Regarding OOS public schools- I think you can’t discount how a student who was raised in southern Ca will adjust to a school that is filled with instate students. D1 went to Purdue and there were enough OOS students and international students that she didn’t feel totally like a fish out of water. Whereas IUPUI will be mainly instate.
Another thought is if finances are an issue cost of living after moving out of the dorm should be taken into consideration along with how many flights it will take to get somewhere and the cost. The cost of housing in West Lafayette Indiana was super low compared to Ca.</p>
<p>Check out UC Riverside. It has a world class museum of photography on campus, so I would expect the undergraduate photography program to be good as well.</p>
<p>Also, check out the media major at UC San Diego.</p>
<p>Actually, jpm50, this family lost their home in a fire two years ago. They were displaced and finally moved back in a few months ago. They are overwhelmed and I was the one who suggested we barter-the mom is tutoring my special needs middle son in writing and I have agreed to help their eldest daughter with college apps.</p>
<p>She’s quite passionate about photography and has a really impressive resume of community service as well as a very interesting thematic series of photos that she’ll present.</p>
<p>nottelling,</p>
<p>Yes, I just emailed her last night with UC Riverside and UCSD as two more suggestions. I didn’t know Fullerton also had photography.</p>
<p>She emailed me last night and said she now wants to stay in the West and closer to home than she thought. At this point, with the UCs added, I think the list is almost complete.</p>
<p>I suggested Scripps to her, as well, as a possibility. Though her scores are low and it’s a high reach, Scripps does have a higher acceptance rate than the other Claremont school and their art department includes photography. Plus, she’d have the social life of all the other schools to dive into.</p>
<p>And, given the fact that the dad was out of work and they are still recovering from the fire in many ways, if she somehow managed to get into Scripps, I <em>think</em> they might have decent aid for the family.</p>
<p>They’re going to do their finances and then let me know how it looks.</p>