Hi, I’m currently a senior in high school and I honestly don’t know where to apply. I live in Alaska, my gpa is 3.86 weighted, act 29, and my sat score is 1320. I plan on retaking the act and sats, and this year I’m taking enough ap classes where my gpa could reach at least a 4.0.
For college, I’d like to major in either nursing or psychology (in that order). My option here in Alaska is UAA, but I don’t want to study here because I honestly hate AK. It’s difficult to travel in the winter, not much to do, and the campus life at UAA is nonexistent.
If anything, I’d like to study at a place that is relatively urban (at least similar to Anchorage), have a campus life, but also offers aid to oos.
More info: I’m a first generation latina
and these are the AP’s I’ve taken:
world history: 3
lang: 3
spanish: 5
apes: 4
and i’m taking these this year:
lit
calc
stats
psych
How much can you afford?
Private schools generally don’t differentiate between in-state and OOS students in awarding financial aid.
Public universities typically are less generous with FA to OOS students, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that as an OOS student you won’t get any at all.
The University of Washington, Washington State, and Gonzaga University are 3 schools in the Pacific NW that have nursing programs. Run their online net price calculators. Try to determine how much of the Expected Family Contribution you can cover.
You can look at the schools with WUE (Western Undergrad Exchange) where you pay less than a regular OOS applicant. Each each campus carefully since some majors are excluded from the program.
$7000 at most
You are a senior now?
You can afford $7000 per year? Is that what your parents (/ other relatives) are able and willing to contribute, or is it “self help” (federal student loans, work study, summer employment)?
What are some of the “Expected Family Contribution” numbers you get when you run the online Net Price Calculators? If those numbers are much greater than $7K/year, then you’ll need a strategy to close the gap.
If your parents can pay $7k and you take the ~$5500 federal student loan that gives you a starting budget of ~$12k. If you work summers you can earn another ~$3k, which brings it to ~$15k/year. You can try to find schools that offer merit for your stats to close the gap. Run each school’s net price calculator to get an estimate of how much they’ll cost.
Look at Montana State, South Dakota universities, UMN Twin cities. Also run the NPC on St Olaf, St Thomas, Hamline, Augsburg, IUPUI, Butler, Creighton, Illinois Wesleyan, Luther, Concordia Moorhead, St John’s/St Benedict…?