Hello all. This is my first time posting here. I have looked around this website and seen a lot of good advice. I am looking for some colleges to add to my list to visit and/or apply to. I have decided that I would like to go to school for either Bioengineering or Biomedical Engineering with plans to either go to medical, law, pharmacy, or further engineering school upon education. I figured I would post my statistics here and the colleges I am currently looking at. I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on the colleges I am currently looking at and other colleges I should look at. I am looking for schools that have the opportunity to get significant merit money or are inexpensive as my family does not qualify for financial aid but also doesn’t make enough money to finance more than $10,000-$12,000 per year of my education at the most. My plan is to save money during undergrad so that I can afford to go to grad schools of my choosing. So here are my stats
Female graduating 2016 from PA
attends a nice suburban/rural school with a class of about 280 (Smaller than all the other years at school for some reason)
Rank: 1/280
GPA: UW 3.94/4.0 97.5/100 W 107.4/100 (4.0= only A+ every quarter at my school)
SAT: taken once don’t plan to repeat 2250 780 math 740 CR 730 writing
ACT: Not taken yet but will take in June
PSAT: 227 high enough to qualify as a semifinalist at least in my state
Taken 7 AP classes as of junior year. Taking 5 more senior year and a math class that is college level math but not an AP. Also doing an internship at a local hospital my senior year
Extracurriculars
Horse back riding- did It growing up then took a break but I’ve been doing it the last 3 years
Library volunteering 3 years 300+ hours
Volunteers teaching mathcounts at middle school
Pulse- after school program at med center 1 year
Science Olympiad 1 year
Envirothon 1 year 2nd at regionals going to states
Youth group lots of volunteering hours president this year treasurer last year
Youth representative to church council
University of Pittsburgh healthcare careers scholars academy which used to be a pa gov school until it the funding got cut and it was privatized my focuses there were mental health and stem cells and my research paper was on pharmacogenomics
NHS and honor societies in science, math, history, Latin, and English
Clean stalls 2 days a week at my local barn
Mission trip to Detroit for the summer
Planning to design, organize and do a large service project this summer
The schools I am looking at and have or plan to visit are: PITT, case western, Shenandoah, Drexel, njit, u of Cincinnati, u of Kentucky, u of West Virginia, northeastern, u of Rhode Island, and Lehigh
So any advice, more colleges, merit advice? Any help is appreciated. Sorry this is so lengthy.