<p>From IU’s website:
Non-Resident Criteria
IU Distinction - $44,000 ($11,000 per year)
■Minimum SAT score of 1350 or minimum ACT of 31
■Minimum GPA of 3.80 on a 4.0 scale
IU Prestige - $20,000 ($5,000 per year)
■Minimum SAT score of 1250 or minimum ACT of 28
■Minimum GPA of 3.70 on a 4.0 scale</p>
<p>So if she can bring her ACT up by just 1 point, she’ll qualify for $5000/year. Not sure if that makes it more in-reach. And IU does superscore the ACT for admissions and scholarships, so raising the ACT score by 1 point should be pretty easy.</p>
<p>Too bad this thread wasn’t opened a month ago. This month we DID visit what I call a financial “extreme reach” with D (HS senior) and we all fell in love with it. Luckily (?) it is also an admissions “reach” school, but if she does get accepted we will have some very tough decisions to make in the spring – settle for one of the other schools on her list that were perfectly fine until we visited this one? or mortgage our future to send her to the perfect school? I’ll let you know how it goes :)</p>