What are good reach schools for me?

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<p>Hello, I want to know what some good reach schools for me would be. Try to keep it east coast, new england, mid-atlantic if you can. I'm a white male in the 180-200K income bracket.</p>

<p>I'll most likely be going to school for business or engineering </p>

<p>3.8 weighted GPA
2050 SAT, 680 CR, 700 Math, 670 Writing (Pending new scores. I definitely went up a lot in math and writing)
Class ranking: top 5-7%
SAT II: World History- 700, Chemistry- 690, Math II- 710</p>

<p>AP classes: 10th grade- AP World=5
11th grade- AP English, AP Chemistry, AP US History
12th grade- AP Government, AP Calculus, AP Literature, AP Physics</p>

<p>Sports: Varsity Volleyball 10th 11th 12th (captain 12th)
Varsity Swimming 9th 10th 11th 12th
Varsity Track & Field 10th 11th 12th
Club volleyball team 9th 10th 11th 12th</p>

<p>Other EC: Science club member 10th 12th
History Club member 11th 12th
NHS probate 11th, member 12th
Various service events all years (not a lot, but a decent amount)</p>

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<p>Bumpppp… please answer?</p>

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<p>What is your UW GPA? Does that SAT already include the new scores or are those the old ones?</p>

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<p>My UW GPA is a 3.7, and those SAT scores were the original ones.</p>

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<p>And if it’s not too much trouble, could you name a couple of schools that would be considered matches? I’m having trouble trying to find out where I stand.</p>

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<p>MIT, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech.</p>

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<p>So do you think you would looking for merit aid, then? </p>

<p>Are your parents OK with paying full freight= over 50k/year at many privates for all 4 years? Even some publics for OOS can be over $40,000/year.</p>

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<p>UCONN (CT) has business & engineering & club volleyball.
Runs around $40,000/year for OOS. </p>

<p>Ranked #27 USNWR’s National Public Universities, if rankings interest you.</p>

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<p>I can’t get merit aid from a reach school… I’ll be getting need-based.</p>

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<p>“I’m a white male in the 180-200K income bracket.”</p>

<p>With this kind of income level you probably will not be receiving any need-based aid.</p>

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<p>Need based aid with your family’s income is unlikely.</p>

<p>Your stats open up many schools. The reach schools will be those where your stats are in the 25-75% range but the school’s overall acceptance is <20%.</p>

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<p>MIT is probably a little unrealstic, but I would consider Duke and Northwestern as “good” reach schools for engineering given your stats. I would also look at UMichigan, still a reach of sorts. You may also want to cosider some smaller schools such as Bucknell or Lafayette, for engineering (both perhaps higher matches). I would consider a good match to be UWisconsin Madison, although a little West of your target areas. Keep in mind the more competitive nature of the applicant pools for engineering of each school.</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech</p>

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<p>I will likely be getting a decent amount of aid. There are four other children in my family, one of which is currently attending college, and we have no savings (which is taken into consideration). Also, a lot of these 180-200K gets taxed away (I live on Long Island). </p>

<p>Anyway… what would you consider schools like Lehigh and Villanova for me? And would Georgetown be a decent reach (of course not for engineering)?</p>

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<p>^ You won’t get any FA. Income is the largest determinant of FA and yours is in the top 1% of US families. Location is not considered in determining FA. The other student in college (it needs to be undergrad) would be a factor, but I doubt at that income level. What is your siblings current EFC? Yours would be about 1/2 of that.</p>

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<p>EFC is 40k I believe</p>

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<p>I’ve used Cornell’s calculator once and it said that I would be responsible for < 20k, but I’m not sure what the exact value was.</p>

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<p>Prettyawesome, have your parents use the EFC Calculator on the Collegeboard Website with their 2010 Tax Returns. Select “FM” and “IM” for the FA formulas. Keep hitting “save” so you can refer back to it. This will give you some kind of idea. Make sure they put “Two” for number in college. </p>

<p>While your NYS taxes are probably high, the FAFSA and the CSS PROFILE will calculate your state and local taxes based on the percentages that these need analysis forms will use for your state. The state and local taxes calculated will probably be less than what your parents actually pay. </p>

<p>Buy “Paying for College Without Going Broke” by Kalman Chany, Princeton Review.
Get both the 2010 Edition and the 2011 Edition. (Amazon) The 2011 Edition drops the IM (Institutional Methodology) which you will want to use for private schools.</p>

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<p>bump… more opinions?</p>

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<p>*I’m a white male in the 180-200K income bracket.</p>

<p>I’ll most likely be going to school for business or engineering</p>

<p>3.8 weighted GPA
2050 SAT, 680 CR, 700 Math, 670 Writing (Pending new scores. I definitely went up a lot in math and writing)
Class ranking: top 5-7%*</p>

<p>Reach: </p>

<p>Cornell
Columbia</p>

<p>*I will likely be getting a decent amount of aid. There are four other children in my family, one of which is currently attending college, and we have no savings (which is taken into consideration). Also, a lot of these 180-200K gets taxed away (I live on Long Island). *</p>

<p>**
Uh oh…just saw this…**</p>

<p>Income is high - doesn’t matter where you live. (sorry).</p>

<p>Ok…ask your parents how much they can pay.</p>

<p>You need a 'hole new strategy that takes your financial situation into acct. You need a good list of financial safeties (schools that will be affordable because of HUGE merit scholarships).</p>

<p>*I’ve used Cornell’s calculator once and it said that I would be responsible for < 20k,
*</p>

<p>Is that with 2 in college? </p>

<p>What is your brother’s EFC?</p>

<p>you need financial safeties…you do NOT want to be one of those very sad kids next spring with no affordable schools.</p>