<p>I am thinking about going into pre med. I have posted similar things to this but people keep saying, save your money and go to school in state cause pre med is not as important
But I would really like to get out of state and I believe that I have good enough grades to get into a prestigious school. But the main reason is, is that I would need to apply for financial aid, so if I can get into a top school, I might be able to go for the same price as an instate school. So based on my stats, what are the best schools that I can get into (that offer good financial aid) (liberal art or university). Just so I know where to apply</p>
<p>From Ohio
tri citizen</p>
<p>GPA
UW 3.8
W 4.55 (4.8 scale)
ACT: 33
9 AP 5 Honors</p>
<p>5 clubs (president of one)
2 instruments
2 varsity sports
student council
150 volunteer hours</p>
<p>We don’t know your parents’ financial situation so naming schools that give good FA could be meaningless.</p>
<p>We don’t know if your family would qualify for the FA that it might want/need.</p>
<p>Your family may only want to pay $15k per year, but a $60k school may only give you $10k in aid because the school thinks your family can afford to pay more. </p>
<p>Schools that give great aid do NOT give free money to everyone. they have a good number of students who pay full or near-full price. </p>
<p>Have your parents said how much they’ll pay? </p>
<p>Do you have a non-custodial parent? If so, will he pay for college?</p>
<p>Are your parents lowish income (below $40k)? Middle income $45k-80k? Upper-middle $85k - $125k? Higher income $130k+ </p>
<p>Frankly, your stats are just average for the more elite schools. I don’t think that’s a good plan for a premed student. Your premed classmates will be stronger than you are. Your GPA could easily suffer.</p>
<p>??? In another thread, you say that you want to major in Film. Have you changed your mind???</p>
<p>BTW…if your goal is to go OOS, then your stats might let you do that at schools that will give you a good amount of merit scholarship money. However, it wouldn’t be a free ride, so how much will your family pay?</p>
<p>You are giving up to go for free (potentially) if you stay in your state, make sure, you realize that. My D. with similar stats had full tuition Merit award in UG. Specifically, if you are in OH, check out Miami and Case Western. Both are famous (and true to this reputation) for offerring huge Merits to top applicants.
I would say that working that hard and achieving high goals and NOT taking advantage of this, would not be very smart at all.<br>
But it is your decision. D. and ALL of her pre-med friends ended up with great choices of Med. Schools (including top 20), all are third year Med. Students currently.</p>
<p>IMO Full rides are harder to come by than they were even a few years ago. However, there is still generous merit aid available depending on where you look. </p>
<p>How set are you on pre-med? DS was torn between a future in pre-med, engineering, or business. He had stats similar to yours (four years ago) and he got great merit aid (full tuition if I recall correctly) from Purdue (a top engineering program) and U Indiana (a top business program). At the time, these were automatic scholarships with direct admissions offers for the right stats. I think the terms may have changed by now, but they might be nice schools to attend if you want to go oos to a top program for an affordable price. However, I would think the focus of students in those top programs would not be med school prep… It’d be more like international banking or aerospace engineering…</p>
<p>In state, DS applied to CWRU and OSU (both had solid engineering and business programs with lots of research opportunities and hospitals on campus to support any pre-med plans). He got generous merit aid from both schools but not a full ride. He chose OSU, majored in engineering, and was able to graduate without debt and with enough money saved (from engineering work) to pay for a big chunk of his medical school education. </p>
<p>A friend of his with similar stats got a free ride to U of Alabama. Although it was not a tippy-top school, it had solid programs, satisfied her need to be oos, and enabled her to start med school debt-free. </p>
<p>IMO you can have an oos-like experience in-state if you go to any school that feels significantly different from where you grew up. For example, DS did not like CWRU because it was too close to our home and he did not want Miami U because it reminded him of his hometown. OSU was just big enough and far enough for him.</p>
<p>^OSU did not give my D. much at all, nothing in comparison to CWRU and Miami. In addtion, she did not like OSU. In our city kids are mostly divided to those who love OSU and hat4e Miami and the other way around. D. belonged to the second.
It is very important that student personality and wide range of interests would match to an UG school, and it is great when it matches at the place that offers you lots in Meirts.</p>
<p>A friend of his with similar stats got a free ride to U of Alabama. Although it was not a tippy-top school, it had solid programs, satisfied her need to be oos, and enabled her to start med school debt-free</p>
<p>Same with my son. Got a near free ride to Alabama. Now he’s in med school.</p>
<p>Is your EFC affordable? If not, even a good need-based aid school isn’t going to work, you’d have to look solely at merit aid (U Alabama, pending your state, your in-state flagship, several smaller LACs). If it is, you’ll have other places you can try (U Rochester, Franklin & Marshall, Dickinson). There are many more than those I listed for both categories.</p>