Match schools for international relations/applied mathematics?

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<p>I see what you mean wrt scholarships (most students, when they speak about “outside scholarships”, don’t mean these) but they’re still much less likely than institutional aid.</p>

<p>GTech is a fine choice for Applied Math, not much for MT, okay for IR.</p>

<p>UGA’s Honors Program IS highly ranked:
<a href=“Top Honors Programs! - Public University Honors”>http://publicuniversityhonors.com/new-top-programs-by-category/&lt;/a&gt;
Questions to ask wrt Honors:
<a href=“http://publicuniversityhonors.com/2014/03/25/choosing-an-honors-program-twenty-questions-to-ask/”>http://publicuniversityhonors.com/2014/03/25/choosing-an-honors-program-twenty-questions-to-ask/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Although, if one goal is to attend a school that fewer from your high school choose, UAlabama’s Honors program is about 50% students from OOS so it’s be more cosmopolitan than UGA’s.</p>

<p>Glad to hear your parents would never “force” you to choose Georgia Perimeter over GTech, but that’s not what I meant; rather: if you got into MIT or Yale, would your parents still insist on paying just R&B? In effect, that means they’d remove that choice from your grasp. This is something you need to know. </p>

<p>You don’t need to wait and see what financial aid you’ll get from UChicago or the Ivy League, MIT, HarveyMudd, Stanford, etc: unless your parents have a complicated situation (rental properties, small business…) the NPCs are pretty accurate and should tell you, right now, whether they’re doable within reason, or out of your planned budget. You have the right to dream especially since you worked so hard and have such tremendous achievements, so you should definitely apply to a couple of these schools, but your focus should be on your match schools. </p>

<p>For example, no need to apply to UMichigan if your parents won’t pay the OOS fee surcharge.</p>

<p>Since you’re a girl interested in a variety of fields, you should look into the women’s colleges, especially Scripps (with access to Harvey Mudd for Applied Math), Bryn Mawr (access to Penn for math), Wellesley (access to MIT), Barnard (access to Columbia). These DO have merit scholarships although I don’t think they have full tuition scholarships.</p>