<p>Hello! I have completed my college list but feel I need to add a couple safety schools. Can you guys help me find some safety schools? I would really appreciate it since I am kind of lost :/</p>
<p>What I am looking for:
-Good study abroad (It's a MUST)
-Offers internships/co-op
-Work-study program (not a must but would be nice)
-Good aid! (I am looking for both merit and need) <--------CRUCIAL
-Urban setting (A MUST, I really want to be in a nice big city)
-Medium to large schools</p>
<p>PROFILE</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9/4</p>
<p>ACT: 32 (will be retaking in hopes of a higher score)</p>
<p>APs: will have taken 10 by the time I graduate</p>
<p>Dual Enrollment: taking Psychology and possibly Nutrition this coming year</p>
<p>ECs
-I have sort of self-employed myself. I sell 100% handmade (by me) gold and silver jewlery. I do this for the extram income.
-I created a jewlery line called "Alzheimer's Butterfly", for which all of the profits go to the American Foundation for Alzheimer's.
-I am on the American Foundation for Alzheimer's Teen Advisory Board.
-I was on Nordstrom's BP Board this past year. There I helped find ways to market Nordstrom's BP Brand and learned about the buisness.
-I am a member of National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, French National Honor Society.
-Vice President of Science National Honor Society.
-Speak 3 languages and I am self learning my 4th (Portuguese)
-I ran a "comfort item" drive this past year. All of the donations are given to a women's and kid's shelter.
-Have won award on many French and Spanish competitions (too many and they were all different so I won't list them)</p>
<p>I am a Hispanic female from a private school in south Florida. I love science and I am looking to go into either Biological Scienes or Nursing on a pre-med track :)</p>
<p>Schools with strong language and study abroad programs as well as strong science programs include Middlebury, Dickinson, St Olaf… there are lots of them but as a Hispanic Female from Florida applying to these schools would give you an edge since I don’t think many Floridians or Hispanics apply, so you’d have a definite advantage, especially at St Olaf and Dickinson, both for admission and scholarship money. None of these are urban though (STO is 45mn from Minneapolis St Paul, Dickinson is close to Harrisburg but it’s not a city).
Urban with good study abroadand where you’d be among the top applicants (in decreasing order of difficulty), but don’t know the science strength: Macalester, Transylvania, Fairfield, Butler, Mills.</p>
<p>A lot of the Association of Independent Technical Universities (<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5B/url%5D”>http://theaitu.org</a>) schools are in major cities and you would be definitely admissible in some of the smaller ones.</p>
<p>If you want an affordable mid- to large-sized safety school, then check out your in-state public schools such as the University of Florida, Florida State, and USF. Or have you already ruled them out?</p>
<p>Middlebury, Dlckinson, St. Olaf, and Muhlenberg are fine but they are all small liberal arts colleges (not “medium to large”). None of them are located in nice, big cities. Middlebury is super selective. The others ought to be in low match or safety territory for the OP’s stats (at least with respect to admission).</p>
<p>Many mid- to large-sized safety schools will be public universities, which usually don’t have terrific need-based aid for OOS students. Alabama often is cited on CC for the large merit scholarships that it guarantees for minimum stats (which the OP appears to meet).</p>
<p>Northeastern in Boston requires you do co-ops, is an up and coming university, and is only 16,000. Idk how there aid is though but I would check it out. It’s very international school</p>