<p>I've stumbled across University of Richmond, and it seems to be a good school with a great business school, which highly interests me because of it's great scholarships. I am a very high achieving student who needs academic scholarships because my parents are set on me going to ga tech if there is no financial alternative (not exactly where I want to go).</p>
<p>I am drawn to it by a number of factors:
1. The only LAC that has a very highly ranked business school.
2. 1 in 15 freshmen receive full tuition scholarships, I am almost sure I can get one of these
3. Small classes, great teachers
4. Consistently ranks highly in academic quality, supposedly great in-classroom experience
5. Beautiful campus, great food (but this is secondary)</p>
<p>Can anybody give me some insight on whether or not it is worth considering this school considering my stats? :</p>
<p>4.19 gpa
awaiting SAT scores
Very hard IB curriculum, took hard HL.
Excellent extra curricular activities: head of UNICEF at school for 7 years running making total of around 20 000 over the course of those years, 7 years of soccer, started a band, percussionist in jazz band, started men's volleyball club at school for fall season, many other smaller activities. </p>
<p>If anybody can tell me about U Rich, or other schools that I should consider, this would be greatly appreciated.
I want to major in economics while taking classes in finance and international relations/affairs.
Also looking at: McGill - top choice because of french citizenship = pay quebec prices
UVA
UMich
UWisc
USC
Claremont McKenna
Wash St Louis</p>
<p>7 years of UNICEF? Did you start it when you were 10-11? How does that even work?</p>
<p>You didn’t really give enough info to say if the school is worth checking out, but I think it’ll be available to you. But don’t feel bad if you don’t get a scholarship.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the 3 public schools you mentioned will be harder to get into because you are out of state. And OOS publics tend to give less financial aid, nonetheless to out of state people.</p>
<p>Claremont and USC are both need blind.</p>
<p>WUSTL…hm. It’s not need blind, but they give good financial aid I hear.</p>
<p>Pose, yes I have been leading the Trick or Treat for UNICEF campaign for my entire school k-12 since 6th grade.
I don’t think i will qualify for much financial aid at all, yet my parents insist on not paying more than 20k a year for undergrad, and I don’t blame them, but that is why I am looking at merit so much.
USC and WUSTL both give good scholarship money. Claremont I would be looking to get the Frank Seaver Leadership scholarship, even though it is highly selective. I just really like Claremont McKenna!</p>
<p>Wait, is your school K-12? Wow, what is this school called? I’m just interested, I’ve never heard of such a thing.</p>
<p>And ya, I know both USC and WUSTL give scholarship money, but you seemed like you were on the lower income spectrum, so I was trying to suggest need based instead of merit based.</p>
<p>I would suggest taking a look at some of WUSTL-Olin College business scholarships. Obviously, at such a competitive school it will be hard to get, but mine as well try.</p>
<p>Atlanta International School - a really awesome school for the record. There are plenty of these in the Atlanta region (all private schools).
No, not in the lower income spectrum. But parents do insist on not paying much for undergraduate. Especially when I could go to GA TECH for 10k a year with HOPE Scholarship. Or McGill for about the same amount if I get in. McGill I really want to go to, GA TECH, not so much.</p>
<p>One thing you should know is that they refer to it as “U of R”</p>
<p>I applied to Richmond for many of the same reasons you did. and I hate to admit it, but I was also a bit too cocky about getting into richmond scholars there - I ended up getting their 15k consolation scholarship… which still left a hefty 35k a year. </p>
<p>ultimately, I’m really glad it worked out the way it did. I realized it really wasn’t a good fit for me at all because of the isolated campus and homogeneity of the student body. I suggest browsing around the richmond boards here on cc and getting a feel of the personality of the school to see how much you like it. I still think their scholars program is a great way to get an almost free college education - good luck!</p>
<p>here is a con: a very preppy, stuck up, homogeneous study body</p>
<p>oh and I know Emory has a really similar scholars program - and one for their business school especially. but I assume you don’t want to go to college so close to high school?</p>
<p>Emory would be great, I don’t mind about proximity, I just don’t like Tech for a number of different reasons. I have heard about these cons at U of R, and they do worry me.
Getting Emory’s scholarships I think would be a little bit of a stretch?</p>