<p>" Safeties and big endowments don’t often go together. Need based aid with parents income over 60k gets tough"
-Surprise! They do, I do not know how often, but I easily found couple places for my D. They are simply known. And she got great great Merit awards at both. I actually underestimated the amounts by a lot. You got to research places that you are interested. As I have mentioned, none of the UGs that D. was accepted would be of your interest.
U of Pitt D. considered for Med. School. But she determined that it was not for her after visiting. Got to visit, see for yourself, meet up with people, get a feel of the place. As superior as one program might be, if it does not fit with you, it will be very hard to make it there. Choose the place that you personally belong then everything else will magically fall into your laps. That is how it happened for my kid.</p>