<p>Son is a junior - competitive high school in the northeast. PSAT scores not great 1760 (550 CR, 660 MA, and 550 WR). Grades are good 3.633 (wtd), but based on last year's percentiles (which typically don't vary that much) puts him in the top 20% of his class. He is interested in science but not sure what he wants to do about it. Looking for Eastern schools that are known for science that a kid with these stats can get into. Taking SAT's for first time in May and doing some prep work now so hopefully they will be better.</p>
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute maybe.</p>
<p>Union College maybe.</p>
<p>Ursinus perhaps.</p>
<p>What’s your home state and what can you afford?</p>
<p>If he can bring up his SATs a bit, consider St. Mary’s College of Maryland. It is the public honors college. Particularly strong in biology, I have heard.</p>
<p>Our home state is Massachusetts, and while I would like him to stay within New England I’m not sure he feels the same way - so anywhere up and down the east coast would be good. Not a lot of snow either so that eliminates Syracuse.</p>
<p>Possibly Fairfield (CT), Hofstra (NY), UNH.</p>
<p>University of Maryland - Baltimore Campus. Is an honors college focusing on the sciences and is on a lot of up-and-coming lists. Is about four miles from BWI airport, so is an easy hop on Southwest!</p>
<p>What type of science? I.e. biology, chemistry, physics (or their subareas)? Or a mathematical science like math or statistics? Or something more applied like engineering or computer science?</p>
<p>More on the biology end - he is taking Honors PHysics this year and Honors Human Anatomy - and although he has the higher grade in physics he enjoys the human anatomy class much more.</p>
<p>University of Pittsbugh?</p>
<p>You forgot to answer the affordability question. Costs for many/most schools outside Mass will be ~$50K/year.</p>
<p>Cost is not an issue right now - I think that we would get some financial aid (we will have 2 in college), so ~50k while way too expensive is what I would be expecting the before financial aid price tag to be.</p>
<p>$30k OOS – [UMBC:</a> An Honors University in Maryland](<a href=“http://umbc.edu/]UMBC:”>http://umbc.edu/)</p>
<p>Lehigh might be worth looking at.</p>
<p>UMBC is our daughter’s first choice because it is close to home. Most of the kids who choose to attend live within an hour of the school. Only about 8% of the kids are from out of state. This number may grow as the reputation of the school continues to improve.</p>
<p>We also live in New England and my son is very interested in the sciences so he did a good amount of research into which schools encourage research and have excellent science programs. Some of the schools on his short list include:. Bowdoin, Cornell, Colby, Colgate, Holy Cross, Boston College, and Union. I would also add in University of Rochester, WPI, Hobart/William Smith, and Northeastern. Of course, some of these will be reach schools</p>
<p>storytimes - some of those are on our list too. son wants a larger school so northeastern is the only one on that list that is large (my older son is there and loves it). Yesterday we visited BU and today visited WPI. I was very impressed w/WPI - 20% of their students major in natural sciences.</p>