<p>As an aside, I would only submit the ACT score, not your SAT score which is significantly lower. You can still send in your SAT subject tests to let the schools see how well you did without sending in the actual SAT scores.</p>
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<p>I think your tone is fine, and I sympathize with your stress, but I think if you look on the bright side, you have a bright future awaiting you. You have a lot going for you: </p>
<p>1) big plans - terrific
2) great stats - terrific
3) A pretty decent college budget. 30K won’t get you into many schools at list price, but there are some, and you will get some scholarships to others. Just keep reading this board and write down the generous ones and the inexpensive ones and read about them in the Fiske Guide and check out their websites.
4) You don’t have to compromise on going to a big school. </p>
<p>Look at what you can get rather than focusing on what you can’t. </p>
<p>You might also consider Ohio State, they offer some pretty nice scholarships. </p>
<p>What state do you actually live in?</p>
<p>You have great stats. Check out Pitt- you might even qualify for their med school guarantee ( very selective, exempts from MCAT). Aside from the lists of guaranteed & competitive scholarships in the FA forum, I think there are LACs you could get scholarships at too. Sorry to be vague but I don’t know that much about your geographic area.</p>
<p>Edit: what about Arizona as a safety?</p>
<p>perseverance, you are new here. Those posters giving the OP a bit of “tough love” (I would not say “rough or unkind”) are trying to spare him from disappointment later. Like many teenagers, he has somewhat unrealistic ideas about college. Those of us who have been here a while have seen enough heartbreak in April to want to help other kids avoid it.</p>
<p>If you want a small school, have you looked at Truman State, University of Minnesota - Morris, and New College of Florida? These public LACs with low out-of-state list prices and/or automatic scholarships should fall within your stated price limit.</p>
<p>I do not want to go to a small schools, but thanks for the suggestions. I live in MA, but do not really wanna go to a school in this area because I have lived here for 18 years and want to try living in a different area of the country. And I have talked to my parents about it and they said that I did not need to worry about money and I guess that 30K benchmark was just a suggestion. I am just trying to get the best education I can in the environment I want for the least amount of money.</p>
<p>Excellent, that opens things up quite a bit. </p>
<p>Consider University of Wisconsin. It’s comparable with Michigan but is about $10K/yr cheaper. The also have had rolling admissions, though I’m not sure if they still do - I think that there was some change. It’s just about the nicest campus I’ve every seen and the State Street area has a little bit of a “Boston” feel, so you might not get too homesick. </p>
<p>You should have your parents give you a budget for the total COA. Because tuition can be $30,000, and room and board can be over $12,000. So that is over $40,000. Room and board varies tremendously by school. So what can your family afford to pay yearly? I do reccomend that you look at SUNYs. No one really cares where you get your med degree if you’re trying to become a doctor.</p>
<p>I thought you were in CA, lol.
U Alabama for safety then.</p>