<p>Hello, CC. I need some help with compiling a college list for a friend (US citizen studying abroad). He wants to major in something like finance or international business and minor in either Arabic or Japanese. Because he can't afford a college education, we started with the need-blind + full-need college list on Wikipedia. We then started omitting colleges that don't offer undergraduate business or minors in either of the aforementioned languages. Finally, we removed schools that he didn't feel comfortable with (schools with strong religious affiliations). We ended up with these schools:</p>
<p>1.Beloit College (Business economics)
2.Boston College
3.Claremont McKenna College (5 year BA+MBA program)
4.Columbia University (Financial economics)
5.Cornell University (Applied economics)
6.Emory University
7.Georgetown University
8.University of Miami
9.University of Michigan
10.University of Pennsylvania
11.University of Richmond
12.University of Southern California
13.University of Virginia
14.Wake Forest University</p>
<p>Obviously, there are too many reach schools and not enough safeties--a natural consequence of making a list based off the full-need criterion. Help us fix this list! The three most important criteria are generous financial aid, undergraduate business and minors in Arabic and/or Japanese. All input is appreciated.</p>
<p>Grades? Test scores? Has his family filled out the EFC to check what they would be expected to pay? The fact that a college meets ‘full need’ doesn’t mean he won’t be asked to pay anything - it’s the schools definition of need, not his, that matters here.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m not really experienced with this financial aid business. What I can tell you is that his family is definitely below the poverty line, so I assume he meets any college’s definition of need. I don’t remember exactly how much his family’s annual income is, but I believe he said below 10K$. No college would expect him to pay, right?</p>
<p>Regarding test scores, he hasn’t really taken any tests yet. His estimated SAT score is 2000ish. He is currently taking his high school exit exams (Bangladesh system-- expects a strong GPA). He got a perfect GPA on his tenth grade finals. That’s all we have right now. We’ll adjust the list once we have more numbers to work with</p>
<p>Schools like BU with iffy history of financial aid should be skipped. Also leave out public schools like Michigan, Virginia.</p>
<p>American citizen living in Bangladesh under the poverty line should be a hook.</p>
<p>Work on that SAT score, aim for a solid 2150 then apply to top 20 schools. They are the schools that is pretty much guaranteed to give him full rides, many of them without a cent of loan.</p>
<p>Keep:
3.Claremont McKenna College (5 year BA+MBA program)
4.Columbia University (Financial economics)
5.Cornell University (Applied economics)
6.Emory University
7.Georgetown University
10.University of Pennsylvania
14.Wake Forest University
- add some safeties, but they won’t really meet the financial criteria</p>
<p>The above contains lots of misinformation. BC is the Boston school on the list and it meets need. So does UVA. It’s correct that Michigan does not.</p>
<p>With a 2000 SAT score I’d forget the ivies on the list and replace them with some schools that meet need where a 2000 might fly.</p>
<p>@Waverly</p>
<p>You don’t seem to understand that the need determined by school is different across schools. Just because a school meets need doesn’t mean it will meet the actual need. Even if different is $5000, OP’s friend will have huge difficulties affording college.</p>
<p>He needs a school that is beyond generous and fully meeds need, not some school that meets their own conservative estimate of need.</p>
<p>What is up with UMich and financial aid? Is it really really bad?</p>
<p>Just a public school with limited fianancial resources, usually devoted to in-state students anyways.</p>