School Suggestions?

<p>Hey! I'm a junior trying to put together a college list, and I would appreciate some suggestions for match schools!</p>

<p>Basic profile:</p>

<p>2210 SAT (retaking in June though, so possibly higher), in top 5 of class, all honors/ap classes, good EC's (3-4 clubs, officer positions, science programs outside of school), some awards too.</p>

<p>I want to take a pre-med track, so majoring in some science (schools with good pre-med programs are important :) )</p>

<p>School preferences:
-Not many, but I would prefer a medium sized school (basically not more than 20,000 +, not less than 2,000, preferably).
-In the northeast, 4-5 hours from NYC.
-My parents say that financial aid won't be a big issue, but some help would be good.</p>

<p>Please help! Thanks!</p>

<p>I recommend:
Cornell (very good medical school placement)
UPenn
Tufts
Colgate/Hamilton (too small?)</p>

<p>For safeties, probably Stony Brook and Geneseo.</p>

<p>If you are sure about the pre med part, look for schools that have good placement and/or you can get a very high gpa.
Certainly look at the combined programs like new paltz. Union has good placement record and would be a safety. Wesleyan too has good placement record, although harder to get into.</p>

<p>^I wouldn’t call Cornell, UPenn, and (possibly) Tufts “match” schools. You may want to consider BC, BU, and GWU. Knowing your GPA would also help.</p>

<p>My GPA is a 4.39 weighted; my school doesn’t do unweighted. Though I haven’t gotten below an A- in any class, if that helps.</p>

<p>Also, I live in northern NJ (NYC is about 30 minutes away) so I wouldn’t get in-state tuition for NY schools, so those schools might not be worth it?</p>

<p>I don’t really like Colgate, but I’ve been thinking about cornellll. I’m not sure what my chances are though, some unexpected people have been denied/accepted from my school.</p>

<p>I would ask about the pre med track on the cornell forum and query how easy it is to maintain a 3.7+ gpa.</p>

<p>*My parents say that financial aid won’t be a big issue, but some help would be good.
*</p>

<p>Frankly, in the above situation, people generally don’t qualify for financial aid. When parents say that FA isn’t a big issue, that often means that income/assets are too high to qualify for aid. So, as long as your parents are fine with paying $55k+ per year, then you’re good. (Are your parents aware that colleges are now costing $55k+ per year? many parents are not aware of that.)</p>

<p>That said…ask your parents about paying for med school. If they won’t pay for med school after paying $200k+ for undergrad, then you might negotiate a deal with them. If you go to a school that will give you a good merit scholarship and has good pre-med courses/advising, will they help pay for med school?</p>

<p>If you don’t want Rutgers to be your financial safety school, be sure to find a couple of others.</p>

<p>That pretty much pinpoints my situation. We won’t qualify for too much financial aid, but my family could still use some because we’re paying mortgages and all. But, yes, my parents are aware, and they said that if I got into a good school, they would be willing to pay/work it out.
For medical school, I could probably take out loans anyways?</p>

<p>That being said, (to anyone) what are some good schools with merit scholarships (and preferably, good sciences/pre-med courses)?</p>

<p>Also, any more general college match suggestions?</p>

<p>buuuuuuuump.</p>

<p>Suggestions for great match/low reach schools
& good low match schools that I could get good merit money?</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set-6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set-6.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>TCNJ should be a low match/safety.
Northeastern has good merit aid.
Pitt and Rochester also come to mind.</p>

<p>If you want to get merit aid, you will have to apply to below match level schools, e.g. schools that would be safeties in terms of admissions. </p>

<p>See this thread for schools with merit aid
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set-6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/696637-merit-aid-percentage-common-data-set-6.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>There are some schools that would give you good merit for your stats.</p>

<p>Since you’ll be pre-med, it’s important that you pick a school that is good in sciences, has good pre-med advising, does Committee Letters, and has a good acceptance rate to MD American med schools.</p>

<p>However, staying within a short distance to NYC may be an issue, since it seems like a good number of NE schools don’t give much merit. </p>

<p>Here’s a link to schools that give assured merit scholarships for stats…that means if you have certain stats, you’ll get the scholarship.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships-7.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>*For medical school, I could probably take out loans anyways?
*</p>

<p>Yes, but if you could minimize your med school loans by working out a deal with your parents, you’ll be very glad in the long run. Newish doctors have a LOT of other “start up” costs when they first begin their practices…buying an existing practice, getting an office set up, paying employees, buying equipment, etc.</p>

<p>Holy Cross and Tufts have 2 of the better pre-med programs. Holy Cross has new $70 million science building and offers good summer internships.</p>

<p>I think everybody and their brother has a new science building these days!</p>

<p>bummmmmmp.</p>

<p>anymore college suggestions? not just merit aid, but match schoolssss </p>

<p>Also, what would be my chances for places like John Hopkins or Carnegie Mellon (schools I’m considering)?</p>

<p>I was going to suggest JHU and CMU. Also, consider Case Western for a school good in science likely to give you merit money, especially if you improve SAT score. It is further away, though.
Out of state SUNY is a bargain. It may be less expensive than Rutgers in state.</p>

<p>Yeah, I have heard that Case Western gives a considerable about of merit aid, but I’m not sure if I would be willing to go out that far.</p>

<p>Do you recommend any particular SUNY schools, esp. that have good pre-med/or are just generally good?</p>

<p>Also, anyone have suggestions for schools in the Boston area, or any other schools?</p>

<p>[Alfred</a> University : Financial Aid : Undergraduate Freshmen Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.alfred.edu/finaid/freshmen/scholarships.cfm]Alfred”>http://www.alfred.edu/finaid/freshmen/scholarships.cfm)</p>

<p>[Alfred</a> University : Academics](<a href=“http://www.alfred.edu/academics/]Alfred”>Academics | Alfred University)</p>

<p>Check out Alfred University (NY) established in 1836, still under 40k/year, with your stats you could probably receive $14,000/year in merit & be in the Honors Program.</p>

<p>How would Tufts, Smith etc. fit my interests?</p>

<p>Also, any other suggestions for schools that give good merit aid, are well known, and are strong in the sciences?</p>

<p>And good match schools in general (aid or no aid)? Schools like CMU & JHU.</p>

<p>thanks so much for the suggestionsss! REALLY appreciated !</p>

<p>bumppppp.</p>

<p>any suggestions at all would be appreciated!</p>