Please help me refine my list!

[mom2collegekids]

<p>^^^</p>

<p>???</p>

<p>Yale only has about 5300 undergrads.</p>

<p>*That said…make sure that you have a financial safety school in case you don’t get accepted to schools like Princeton.</p>

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<p>What would this be? A state university? Or somewhere else? There’s not really anywhere we could afford without any financial aid, and I have very little interest in going to a state university. *</p>

<p>You will be applying to elites as a NE student…very tough competition since soooo many NE students apply to those elites. </p>

<p>Since money is a big issue, then you need to apply to 2-3 Financial Safeties. Those are schools that you know FOR SURE that you have all costs covered thru ASSURED gov’t grants, ASSURED merit scholarships, small federal student loans, and family/personal funds. I don’t know how UVermont is with aid…many state schools don’t give good need-based aid… Do you know? Do they give big merit scholarships?</p>

<p>You need to be open-minded about your financial safeties to find schools that will be affordable. What will you do if you don’t get accepted to any of your top schools? You need to consider that might possibly happen. You don’t want to be upset next spring with no acceptances to any affordable schools. </p>

<p>Since going to UVM isn’t attractive to you (and may not meet need anyway), you need to identify some other Financial Safeties that you know will have all costs covered. </p>

<p>Will you be a likely NMF?</p>

[kameronsmith]

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Yale only has about 5300 undergrads.

And about 6000 grad students.</p>

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Since money is a big issue, then you need to apply to 2-3 Financial Safeties. Those are schools that you know FOR SURE that you have all costs covered thru ASSURED gov’t grants, ASSURED merit scholarships, small federal student loans, and family/personal funds. I don’t know how UVermont is with aid…many state schools don’t give good need-based aid… Do you know? Do they give big merit scholarships?

As an instate student with my stats, I am assured a full ride.</p>

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You need to be open-minded about your financial safeties to find schools that will be affordable. What will you do if you don’t get accepted to any of your top schools? You need to consider that might possibly happen. You don’t want to be upset next spring with no acceptances to any affordable schools.

But the problem is that most of the usual “financial safeties” just don’t seem very desirable to me. Though I suppose I’ll end up rejiggering my list based on Princeton’s decision. Honestly though, I would consider the possibility of not going to college—my career in technology really doesn’t require it, especially since I already have some job offers as a programmer lined up.</p>