also in a pretty safe area
That is difficult to answer without more information.
Stats?
Do you qualify for need-based aid? (Have you run any NPCs?)
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Depend on your stats. Give us some detail.
Also do you have demonstrated need or will schools say you are full pay ?
Based on my practice SATs I’m thinking I might get a 1500+ even though I got a 1410 last time. I took a lot of APs and top 20-25%. There’s a school near me that gives automatically assured full tuition to people with my stats but I’m looking at more options as well, like maybe schools where its not automatically assured but I still have a chance at getting the scholarship? Idk if i phrased that right. Also I don’t demonstrate need.
To get a full ride at a school, your stats need to be near the top end of their student group. It matters less whether you’re at the top end in your own high school unless lots of kids from your school are also applying.
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When you say full ride, you mean all - tuition, room, and board ? What is your gpa ?
I mean room and board would be nice but I feel like I won’t qualify for that anywhere so full tuition, My unweighted is 3.7 and weighted is 4.65, i took a lot of aps and I’m estimating my SAT score to be 1450+
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I’d say focus on doing the absolute best to finish up the spring semester, and the prep for the retake of the SATs. Then, with those data points, and your AP scores, you can start the search for a tuition scholarship. It will be possible, I think, but at schools where you will not find so many of your academic peers.
Schools that offer automatic merit based on GPA and test scores would be a good place to start. Examples are Alabama, Arizona, Miami-OH, etc. You need to look up the total cost of attendance and the auto-merit for each school, but here is Alabama as an example.
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Career-wise does it matter which school?
Most likely not, but what career? There are a few where it may be a consideration.
Also, you say you have no demonstrated need, but do you have a budget of what your family can afford and is willing to pay? Will paying room and board plus other expenses be doable… approx $20k per year?
Depends.
Here’s a name brand school that you might get free tuition and housing. There may be others.
Don’t know what you want in a school - location or size or otherwise.
Is that area safe tho?
Statistically yes relative to others.
But is anywhere ?
What does safety mean to you?
A campus where most crime is student against student (theft, sexual assault); a campus in an urban area where you should take the campus run safety vans or call for campus security to walk you back from the library at midnight; a campus where students frequently get sent to a local hospital with alcohol poisoning; a campus where the administration is scrupulously honest about reporting incidents so students can be aware or a campus where the administration fudges the numbers, sweeps incidents under the rug, try to pressure students into not pressing charges?
Figure out what YOU mean when you say safe- and then do the research.
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