<p>I'm looking for another safety school thats slightly better then my state school (SUNY Binghamton) where I may recieve merit money that would hopefully make the school as cheap as Bing will be for me. I am also applying to Michigan which is not really a safe school in the truest sense thus I am not expecting any money. </p>
<p>Now I love Michigan but I'd like to find another school which will hopefully be cheaper than Mich, and which would hopefully be a more desirable alternative to Bing (I really really do not want to end up there).</p>
<p>I was thinking maybe PSU or Maryland but I haven't done any research on this yet, so I would appreciate all advice. </p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>SAT: M:740 CR: 720 W: 700 = 2160 (going to retake)
SAT II: US: 780 Physics: 770 Math IC: 740 Bio: 720 Chem: 710
ACT: Math:36 Reading:36 Sci:35 Eng:26 = 33 Essay:11 (most likely going to retake)</p>
<p>Freshman and Sophmore Weighted (all school provides) GPA =94.5
Junior year GPA =99+
Major upward trend that looks something like Freshmen:92ish Soph:96ish Junior:very close to 100
My course load also intensified each year
School doesnt rank (Top 100 School on Long Island, typically sends 30+ out 500 to Ivy's)
AP's: Euro (3...ouch), Physics B (4), US (5)
Senior Year schedule: AP Micro/Macro/Lit/Calc AB/Physics C/Comparitve Government
All honors/AP</p>
<p>EC's:
Student Government: class treasurer (all years)
Spanish club: president
DECA: vice president
Baseball
Teens As Leaders: officer
Led a peer education seminar on AIDS</p>
<p>Awards/Honors Societies:
National Merit commended
National Honors Society
Russian Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society
4th place in a Long Island business competition</p>
<p>Work Experience:
This summer I am Interning at a Financial publishing firm/hedge fund (seperate businesses)</p>
<p>Intended Major: Economics/Finance if offered (my work experience helped guide me towards a career in finance)</p>
<p>NYJeff:
Are you only considering universities? Many of the the other state universities offer good scholarships to kids with high stats. I know Ohio State and Ohio University and maybe Miami Univer (in Ohio) do. Go to their web sites. Have you looked at Penn State? Univ Pittsburgh? I mean, there are tons of possibilities.</p>
<p>Would you consider a liberal arts college?</p>
<p>There is a lot of information on the Parents Forum on here about merit scholarships. Try looking there.</p>
<p>If you don't want to go to Bing, don't apply. If you apply and get major merit aid that is far above what other colleges offer, your parents may force you to go. This has happened to other students.</p>
<p>It's very hard to get merit aid at out of state public universities unless you have something major to offer them such as being an athlete, URM, or having scores so spectacularly above the university's norm that they wish to recruit you.</p>
<p>Apply to Emory, Rice, Duke, and WUSTL. They are the top schools that give out merit aid. As for a safety, its hard to tell who will give you merit aid.</p>
<p>I should say that as of now im planning on applying to:
Penn (ED)
Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
Georgetown
Michigan
Wash U (big ?)
NYU (Stern)
Binghamton</p>
<p>you could apply to Penn State AND their honors college (sep app). The honors college gives a 3500/year scholarship - not much but they also offer departmental scholarships for top candidates (my son got one called "Mitte" from the business school). Avg SAT at the honors college is over 1400. Check out the honors college website (shc.pus.edu). Also, PSU has a good business school, ranked in the top 20.<br>
By the way, my son did not get into his top two choices (with a similar profile to yours) so he ended up going to his safety (PSU - although honors is actually tough to get into there). And so far (first week), he loves it.
I understand that Maryland gives money too but I know less about that.
You might also consider Lehigh - they have a strong business program and my son get an excellent merit scholarship offer there. UNC has an excellent business program and gives $ to top students (not a safety though since you're OOS). Wake Forest is also good but they have been VERY stingy with merit money. Duke also give out very little $ and has no UG business program.<br>
Good luck!</p>
<p>What about Rochester, Carnegie Mellon or Case Western. I think they both give decent merit $ for someone with your stats. If you like Michigan, you might also look at Wisconsin and Indiana. You should definitely be accepted at Michigan - but they're not terribly generous with merit money. Agree with poster above -- if you don't want to go to SUNY-Bing, don't apply.</p>