Schools on the East Coast-ish that I might have a chance at?

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<p>I live in Texas, and I would like to get out. The East coast sounds appealing, but the only schools I know of are expensive Ivies that I will never get in to. Anyone have any ideas?</p>

<p>Class Rank: 64 out of 458 ( about 12%) </p>

<p>Unweighted 4.0 GPA: 3.69
Weighted 4.0 GPA: 4.74</p>

<p>SAT
Total: 1940
720 cr 570 m 650 w </p>

<p>I'm white. </p>

<p>AP classes:</p>

<p>AP English Lang
AP Lit
AP Enviro
AP Psych
AP Gov/Econ
AP Calc AB</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>2 year officer of HOSA (Health occupation students of America)
Member of NHS
Member of Nat Sci Honor Society
Member of PALs (Peer Assstance Leadership)
Band all 4 years, (Section Leader for 3)
Dance at Premier Dance Academy for 6 years
Girl Scouts (Earned the Bronze and Silver Awards, working on my Gold. Equivalent to the Eagle award of Boy Scouts.)
Member of summer swim league for 13 years (Volunteer coach for 3 summers)
Active member of church youth group, attending out of state, week long summer mission trips for 6 years in a row.</p>

<p>If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it. I know I'm a mediocre student but I'm just looking to get out. I'm planning on majoring in English or Psychology, with goals to be a high school english teacher or a dance therapist.</p>

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<p>For a career goal of high school teaching, look up the teacher credentialing requirements in the state or region where you want to teach, so that you can choose a college or university where you can easily fulfill such requirements.</p>

<p>Use net price calculators on college or university web sites to get financial aid estimates.</p>

<p>Some Texas public universities should be automatic admission for you.</p>

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<p>Don’t pay any more than ~$20k a year (and that’s generous) if you plan on being a HS teacher. Most teachers just do community college for 2 years. You want to minimize debt as teachers don’t make a lot, and school prestige is irrelevant.</p>

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<p>Teachers need a bachelors so don’t just do community college and only get your associates.</p>

<p>Look at UVa and JMU (both in Virginia) they have the five year MAT programs for teachers (teachers with masters degrees usually get paid a lot more than teachers without them).</p>

<p>You do need to make sure that the state you get your degree in will allow you to teach in the state you want to live in post graduation. Licensing requirements vary from state to state (which is why if you’re going out of state looking at MAT (masters of teaching) programs are a good choice)</p>

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<p>Some states require a master’s degree to get teaching certification, I think. (And I believe Massachusetts is among those.) If not, you’ll usually max out the pay scale pretty quickly if you don’t get a master’s. Of those teachers at my school who didn’t have a master’s degree, almost all of them were working on earning it part time/evenings (excluding really new teachers who had enough on their plates without this).</p>

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<p>Of course she wouldn’t just do CC. She would transfer to a state U after the two years for her bachelor’s. If OP plans to get a masters, saving money on undergrad would be even more beneficial.</p>

<p>I just don’t see the point in spending money on 4 years at a pricey OOS/private school if you wanna be a teacher. Do 2 years of CC, 2 years at a state flagship, and save thousands of dollars.</p>

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<p>With the stats the OP has, there could be some other low cost options:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-20.html#post16451378[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-20.html#post16451378&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-4.html#post16224918&lt;/a&gt;
Of course, these need to be evaluated in terms of teacher credentialing requirements in the state or region the OP wants to become a teacher in.</p>

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<p>Just went through the list. </p>

<p>Aside from HBCUs, there aren’t any automatic full tuition schools on the east coast.</p>

<p>OP, these are east coast schools where you could get full tuition/ride (again, aside from HBCUs): UDelaware, Hofstra, Wofford</p>

<p>You haven’t said anything about your finances so I have no idea what is affordable.</p>

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<p>There are a number of good schools on the east coast you can get into with your stats. Just take a US News ranking of the top undergraduate universities, highlight the ones in the northeast that are in the 75-150 range and apply. You may get scholarships to some of the ones you select.</p>

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<p>You should do the matching survey on this site. That should give you a few options to look at. If you’re interested in teaching, you should look at Lesley College. One of my daughter’s friends is there now getting an education degree, and I know she got excellent financial aid.</p>

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<p>Thank you everyone for your input! Regarding finances, I am honestly not sure what I’m going for. My parents want me to stay in Texas, so they are willing to pay full tuition for a pricier school like Baylor, since it is in state. I don’t know what they say about out of state schools. I definitely am applying for scholarships like crazy, to get as much money as I can and have more options.</p>