URM Looking for a Safety School...

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am looking for a safety school in the Northeast with these stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.45
ACT: 30
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Major: Computer Engineering
Good EC's</p>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

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<p>It would be helpful to know your state of residency since a safety also means a financial safety…</p>

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<p>Your home state is NJ, right?</p>

<p>We also need to know how much your family will pay since most safeties do not give much need-based aid.</p>

<p>Is that your weighted GPA? If not, what is your weighted GPA?</p>

<p>Why are you limiting to the northeast???</p>

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<p>Academic Safety: You are guaranteed admission based on your stats (lots of public institutions post this right on their websites) or your high school has years of data indicating that no one from your HS with your stats has ever been denied admission.</p>

<p>Financial Safety: You can pay the Cost of Attendance (COA) without any aid other than federally determined (FAFSA) aid and/or guaranteed state/local aid and/or guaranteed merit scholarships. For ideas about guaranteed merit scholarships see: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Please note that a Financial Safety may not be an Academic Safety, and vice versa. Be sure to identify a place that meets both of those criteria, and also offers your major(s) and you would be happy to attend if all else goes wrong in the admissions process.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Clarkson University (NY)
Rochester Institute of Technology (NY) (RIT) </p>

<p>Best of luck in your college search!</p>

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<p>Please note that a Financial Safety may not be an Academic Safety,</p>

<p>Frankly, I think any safety should incorporate both types…A safety isn’t a safety unless you LIKE it, you know you’ll be accepted, and you know that it’s affordable (from family funds, assured grants/scholarships, and/or small fed student loans).</p>

<p>And, I think every student should have 2-3 safeties…unless the student knows for sure that money isn’t an issue.</p>

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<p>On another thread you say that your parents will pay about $12k per year…and you don’t want to go very far from home. (You say that Purdue is too far away).</p>

<p>Your budget is going to limit your choices. Most OOS publics won’t work.</p>

<p>you need to find out if you’d qualify for much FA.</p>

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<p>I hope you are applying to Carnegie Mellon as a reach. Are you female? It is a great place for hispanic kids (my son is hispanic and loves it there)…more diversity than he expected. As for financial safeties–make sure ot apply to your state schools and I also second the RIT suggestion. They offer generous financial aid and scholarships to qualified minority students.</p>

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<li> 3.45 is UW</li>
<li> My parents can pay 20-35K a year… it depends </li>
<li> I live in NJ</li>
<li> I am only selecting schools within 150-200 miles from NJ (with the exception of Carnegie Mellon)</li>
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<p>Thanks everyone and hope to hear more of you post!</p>