Lost as to Safety/Match?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello!</p>

<p>I'm a senior who's struggling to decide on any match/safety schools for backup. I'm mostly worried about financing it. </p>

<p>My #1 is USC. My second/third/fourth are U Maryland, George Mason, and Penn State.</p>

<p>I applied to Arcadia and got a 20k/year scholarship, but I don't want a small school. I applied to Drexel and Scranton, but everyone in my school does.</p>

<p>I prefer schools medium/large, but offer money (doesn't everyone?)</p>

<p>Here are rough stats:
1760 SAT
590 CR, 600 W, 570 M
95.48/100 GPA
37/445 class</p>

<p>First generation
<40000 family income
White female, PA</p>

<p>VP FBLA
Girl Scout Secretary
NHS Treasurer
Soccer Co-captain
+ 300 hours community service</p>

<p>I need help with safety schools an matches. I'd love schools in either CA or MD/VA, but anywhere would help :)</p>

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<p>Have you run the net price calculators on all of your schools’ web sites?</p>

<p>If your GPA is equivalent to a 3.5 or higher, then there is an automatic full ride at Prairie View A&M, but it is in Texas and only medium size (about 7,000 undergraduates).</p>

<p>[University</a> Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/2154.asp]University”>http://www.pvamu.edu/pages/2154.asp)</p>

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<p>Beware that Md, psu and George mason are all going to be expensive</p>

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<p>in VA, check out
(not medium or large, but offer money)
Sweet Briar
Randolph Macon
Emory&Henry
Lynchburg</p>

<p>(medium)
Mary Washington (not sure about aid though)</p>

<p>a match in MD is Goucher college - out of pocket costs would probably be $5-7,000 for your income level and it’s in Baltimore, so although it’s small it’s part of a big city.
Agnes Scott College is farther away but it’s also part of a consortium with Georgia Tech, it’s right in Atlanta, so you don’t feel that you’re in a small, isolated school, and it’d probably also cost about $7,000 out of pocket. </p>

<p>Medium schools with merit money: Truman State; College of St Catherine (st Paul, MN)</p>

<p>Closer to home, check out West Chester University; Susquehanna University; Allegheny College; Allbright; Eastern; Fairleigh Dickinson; Slippery Rock; Ithaca.</p>

<p>(The smaller schools on this list are always part of a larger metropolitan area, typically with thousands of college students).</p>

<p>You’re in at Penn State UP but the cost may be quite high, that’s why I picked schools that would provide with financial aid for your stats.</p>

<p>Run the Net Price Calculators and choose the schools that will be the cheapest.</p>