Major for pre-med

[Mwfan1921]

@elise123

Any recommendations for on a budget (30k) using merit? Don’t qualify for financial aid at most schools and not enough anywhere

You received many good suggestions on your other thread. What does your current school list look like? Being NMF will give you many low cost options.

Do I have a balanced list? [LA resident, 4.0, 36, NMSF, <$25k, biology or physics, pre-med]

Hi! I will be a senior next year so I am trying to really focus on my college application list. I know I should have a balanced number of safeties, matches, and reaches, with mostly matches. However, I’m chasing merit scholarships, not simply admission, so it’s hard for me to gauge what really is a match, safety, etc. I have a 36 in every ACT section (not a Superscore ), 4.0 UW GPA, will qualify for national merit. took AP human geo freshman year (5), AP world history sophomore (5), AP calc bc, AP French, AP bio, APUSH, and AP English junior year (no scores yet—predicting 4-5, 3, 5, 5, 5 respectively). Next year I plan to take AP stats, AP physics, AP music theory, AP gov, and AP English lit, but I may have a scheduling issue with physics and music theory . My core classes that weren’t AP were honors or gifted. I’ll also be in a program through a local branch of my state’s flagship university where I do research on the blood-brain barrier of sickle cell patients …