<p>D2 is a junior. She wishes to eventually study Physical Therapy. She understands she is looking at either 6-7 years of study. Money will be an issue. She would like to attend a medium sized school, 8-20 thousand students. She would like to remain less than 5 hours from home (Dayton Ohio area). She will probably be studying biology, kinesiology or exercise science of of some sort as an undergraduate and would like to minor in dance. She is a good student, currently 4.33 W in a rigorous curriculum. We do not have an unweighted GPA yet. I'm guessing in the 3.8-3.9 range. She has taken the SAT for the first time and scored a 1920/1330 (690R, 640M and 590W). She will be taking the ACT this coming weekend. We will determine which test to retake after she gets her ACT results. We are instate for Ohio. My assessment so far:</p>
<p>Loyola of Chicago Strong match (not sure if it will be affordable)
Miami of Ohio Strong match to weak safety. I'm not sure if we would get the scholarships/FA needed.
Ohio University Safety/Match for the Honors Tutorial College-Translational Health Program
Ohio State University Match again not sure about money
University of Pittsburgh. Match but money will likely be an issue
Case Western. Currently a reach (I know smaller than what she wants but she has yet to visit yet and wants to), we will see if she gets her scores up or does better on the ACT.</p>
<p>She has visited Bowling Green and is not interested. I suspect that she may have similar opinions of Youngstown State University. </p>
<p>I'm looking for new suggestions. Her ultimate safety is Wright State, however, she would not be able to dance. She has danced since she was 4. She a very good dancer but not dance company material. Dance requires about 10-12 hours a week of after school time. She has volunteered this past summer at a local arboretum's Butterfly House and at our church. She very much enjoyed an anatomy class she took her sophomore year, she has shadowed a Physical Therapist and is intending to take attend a one week camp this summer in Human anatomy Exploration with Histological Techniques. That's about all the information I can think of at the moment. Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>Have you run the Net Price Calculators on schools’ websites? If not, try Loyola’s and Pitts’ and see what the results are.</p>
<p>How have you determined that Wright State is a safety? Do you know that she will get certain assured awards that are high enough that net costs will be within your budget?</p>
<p>keep in mind that merit gets applied to NEED first. </p>
<p>We would like to keep the cost to around $10-15k before Stafford loans. I can contribute $5-7k per year, with her loans and possibly some work study and summer work we could afford something within that range. That is why Wright State is the ultimate safety. It’s in town for us and if she needed to she could live at home. I am guessing based on experience with our oldest D that our EFC will be in the 2-3k range. I realize that no university is obligated to cover need. The problem I have with NPC is many don’t give you a good idea of what merit scholarships they might include. She is kind of on the bubble for merit money. A hundred points higher and her options and chances would be better. I believe Pitt likes scores in the 1500 range for good merit scholarships. She is currently solidly average for that school. For Loyola she would be in or near the top 25%. In a perfect world she would get enough in scholarships for her to avoid having to get loans. However, it’s not always a perfect world.</p>
<p>Hi Erin’s Dad. Distance is an issue, however, the bigger issue is the lack of dance minor. One of her current dance instructors is an adjunct at Wright State but they only offer a major. It’s still her financial ace in the whole. WSU used to give full rides for NMCS. We haven’t gotten her PSAT back yet. </p>
<p>NROTC: I’ll check it out. I think it’s smaller than she wants but I’ll look. Her HS has around 2700 students and she wants her colleges to be obviously bigger than her HS. I have a brother who lives in Delaware and it’s a nice community.</p>
<p>Just sharing that my own physical therapist attended Ohio U for both undergrad and the DPT program and loved it (both recently too, in the last few years). She shared with me that the facilities there far exceeded OSUs. I thought she was wonderful (perhaps a product of her training?) and she too was a dancer and now works a lot with professional dancers as a PT. One neat thing at OU is their connection to their osteopath school. </p>
<p>My own D has been accepted with significant merit aid to OU as well, and we’ve yet to visit. We may schedule one soon though. </p>
@Janniegirl Thank you for your response of two weeks ago. D will visit Ohio U. in February. I’m exited about the visit. I enjoy researching universities. I try hard not to cross the the line from providing information to being pushy. From what I have determined OU might be the best fit of any university out there. It’s Honors Tutorial program is unique and has programs in both biology and translational health with tracks in exercise physiology and nutrition. It’s pretty selective and I will be interested to see how she feels about the program and if it would fit her goals. They have have three dance minors including one in “somatics” which focuses on the movements in dance. It’s a beautiful campus of about 21,000, about 2 hours away and being instate could be affordable. She did better on her ACT than her SAT getting a 32. That may make some options more attainable than we had earlier thought. The opinions of your PT confirm some of what I’ve been thinking. Good luck to D and her decision.
Congrats on getting the 32 ACT…that is a significant difference over her SAT (which is like an ACT 30).
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We would like to keep the cost to around $10-15k before Stafford loans. I can contribute $5-7k per year, with her loans and possibly some work study and summer work we could afford something within that range.
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Can you clarify. You say, “around $10k-15k before Stafford loans”…but then you say that you can contribute $5k-7k.
So do you really mean around $10k-15k (after or including) Stafford loans and w/s? If not, where would the difference between $10-15k and your $5k-7k contribution come from? It sounds like the $10k-15k is the amount after combining parent contribution, loan, and w/s. Or am I confused?
BTW…if she work/saves over summers, she may be able to contribute another $2k or so. That said, I think another pre-PT parent told me that there are some (unpaid?) internships or something that her son has to do, so he isn’t able to earn much/anything over summers (or maybe I misheard.)
With the ACT 32 and possibly a higher score after retaking, she’ll likely find some full tuition offers, which seem to meet your target. With a full tuition scholarship, then a $15k spending budging to cover room, board, books, fees, travel, misc, can cover the remaining costs.
Is there any benefit for a pre-PT student to be at a school with big sports? Are there internships or other PT-related ECs that are more available?
Sorry for the confusion. We can contribute about $7k although we would be more comfortable with $5k. She can borrow $5500 first year that would bring the total to $12.5k and summer work and work study should bring it to about $15k. The rest will have to come from scholarships and grants. The challenge is not so much undergraduate as much as it is the post undergraduate work. If finances really become an issue we have Wright State and her living at home as an option. She would have to give up dance but she understands where we need to be.
We are self employed and have a gross income of about 48k/ yr. We have a D who is a sophomore at Purdue and is a ChemE major. Her scholarships/grants cover her tuition and between what we had saved and loans we’ve been able to get through the first two years. She has a good 5 session coop that has allowed her to save all she needs for room and board junior year. We are hoping she can get through the next 3 years without borrowing.
What about Wright State? Too close to home? </p>