Pros Cons for Private/Public Colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Im a senior of the class of 2013. For a while now i've been contemplating focusing more on private colleges as compared to public colleges due to their ridiculously preferable low-income tuition (yale has the best low-income program.. 0.0 of all places). </p>

<p>However, in a different light, private colleges are considerably harder to get into and public colleges- at least the ones im looking at, UC's- are definitely closer and "easier" to get into</p>

<p>I'm going to apply for Questbridge (fml) and other scholarships</p>

<p>So, in contingency to the pros and cons of private/public colleges, with:</p>

<p>3.9487- weighted
3.5897- unweighted
36- rank :P</p>

<p>IB classes (junior): 5 (IB Eng HL, Phil SL, Math HL, Bio, HistAm)
IB classes (senior): 6 (IB Eng HL2, TOK, Span SL, Math SL, Bio HL2, HistAm HL2)</p>

<p>EC: President of Speech and Debate 2011-12
1st place State Qual Tourn
State Speech and Debate Tourn Contendor</p>

<pre><code> President of Key Club 2012-13
Multiple fundraising events
Changing district by-laws to continue school Key CLub

President of Model U.N. 2011-12/2012-13
AVA (A vote for america)- local voting initiative

Class VP 2009-10
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<p>SAT: 2020 (700/640/690)
2040 (620/750/670)</p>

<p>Volunteer: Northbay medical Center (roughly 100hr)
Key Club- Alex's lemonade Cancer Research initiative (raised $2200 district-wide/ $4-500 at my highschool in 2-3 weeks)</p>

<p>Im also considered a good, if not better than average, essay writer;
common aps wont completely destroy me</p>

<p>Are my chances good for going to UCLA/UCBerk, and potentially Brown/Dtmouth/USC/Stanford (faawwk that)???</p>

<p>Thank you to anyone that may provide a response...(even trolls :) we welcome you here)</p>

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<p>In regards to the pros and cons of Private Universities, many of them are no-loan or low-loan schools, so if you get in, they offer the best financial aid, but they’re harder to get in though. The state schools are easier to get in but with this economy, you aren’t going to get too much financial help.</p>

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<p>So, in relation to finances, you’re suggesting that private universities provide little monetary support, if not at all?</p>

<p>If that’s so would it be a wiser decision to go to a UC or state college</p>

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<p>Depending on the private institution, some schools have better merit-aid than others. As an example, here in SoCal, the percentage of students receiving merit-aid at Chapman University are greater than USC. Therefore, many students applying to USC are also applying to Chapman so that they can compare the financial aid awards once accepted. Something to consider.</p>

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<p>Top tier private colleges have some of the best if not the best financial aid in the country. It is often 100 percent of demonstrated need, meaning that most people can graduate debt free. Although top public universities have financial aid it is not nearly as good as that of private colleges.</p>

<p>Oh and a quick chancing for you…
Stanford is unrealistic, your grades and test scores are below their averages and your ECs don’t compensate. For all the other schools you are slightly more qualified, but your GPA will weaken your chances.</p>

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<p>But, relatively speaking, Dartmouth and UCLA are reasonable (potentially safe matches?)</p>

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<p>No, I would classify Dartmouth as a reach as well, although it is slightly less competitive then some ivies it still extremely competitive and your grades and test scores are low for them. I don’t know enough about UCLA to speak to your odds there.</p>

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<p>UCB/LA are low reaches because the GPA is a little low.</p>