<p>I just want to know what my school range is, like what types of schools I'd be admitted to with what I have so far!</p>
<p>Also, financial aid is a big thing for me!! I don't think I'll qualify for any need-based, so if you know any good scholarships which are in my reach, please tell me about them!!!</p>
<p>Some of my ec's are like area specific, so just use your best judgement!!</p>
<p>SAT: 2150 (CR:630, M:780, W:740)
ACT: 31 (E:29, M: 35, R: 29, S: 32)
Class Rank: 1/608
GPA: 4.0/4.5515
Ethnicity: Indian Male
Extra Curriculars
- President of Beavercreek Youth Council (1 year)
- Member of Beavercreek Youth Council (3 years)
- Publicist of Beavercreek Youth Council (1 year)
- Member of Interact Club (3 years)
- Chair of Finance for Interact Club (1 year)
- DIRTT- school volunteer organization (4 years)
- Network- school antidrug awareness program (4 years)
- Science Olympiad (4 years)
- Academic Team (2 years)
- Junior Varsity Tennis (2 years)
- Cross Country (1 year)
- SPAZ- school pride organization (4 years)
- Environmental Activist Club (2 years)
- Envirothon (2 years)
- Speech and Debate (2 years)
- Model UN (3 years)
- Greater Dayton Youth Board (1 year)
- Dayton International Festival Incorporated Youth Group (2 years)
- Asian American Youth Council (2 year)
- National Honors Society (1 year)
Other
- Miami Valley Hospital Volunteen (4 years)
- Intern at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (1 year)
School
- AP Chemistry, AP Statistics, AP US History (Still havent gotten scores back)</p>
<p>Next Year's Schedule:
AP Government, AP English, AP Physics, AP Calculus BC, AP Biology, and AP Spanish!!</p>
<p>and I'm retaking my ACT, and taking two SAT II's (Chemistry and Math 2)</p>
<p>Well your GPA, SATs, ACT, class rank, & extracurriculars are pretty outstanding. If I were you, I’d aim for schools that are just below Ivy League level. (Although you could even apply to some Ivy Leagues, you may have a shot).</p>
<p>I don’t know what you plan to major in, or what locations you are looking for. That info would be helpful.</p>
<p>I can list some schools that come to mind which you may want to check out:</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins
Columbia
NYU
University of Southern California
UC Berkeley
Boston University
Northeastern
Stanford
MIT
Cornell
UNC Chapel Hill
UCLA
University of Virginia</p>
<p>It may help you to do a customized college search on collegeboard.com. They can match you with a school that fits what you’re looking for.
Oh and remember to apply to some safety schools just in case.</p>
<p>Also the schools which I’m thinking of applying are:</p>
<p>-Ohio State University
-University of Cincinnati
-Miami University
-Northwestern University</p>
<p>and maybe and Ivy lol, not sure if i’m cut out for it, or if i’ll get any aid</p>
<p>Also the major of my choice is Biomedical Sciences, or Biomedical Engineering. Trying to get Pre-Med so yeah lol</p>
<p>I think you can probably get into OSU and Northwestern. I don’t know much about UCincinnati or Miami…</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is awesome for pre-med and biology. I definitely recommend you look at that one.</p>
<p>Yeah Johns Hopkins seems amazing for me, but financial aid is definitely an issue there. It’s total 50k a year, and my family cannot afford that (I also have a twin who is going to college!)</p>
<p>Rutgers is pretty great and up-and-coming if you want an affordable safety. You could probably get into some great LAC’s, but with LAC’s it’s important that you find one that you fits you very well. Most are expensive but have great aid (and you may be surprised to find that you get some), so it would definitely be worth applying.</p>
<p>My family can probably do about 10k per year</p>
<p>Standardized tests don’t seem to seem to put you in a favorable position applying to top top schools (work on that reading!) but it will be noted that you are a val which will help you out…for pre-med/BME, Duke is also an excellent option (though engineering is always a tough major for pre-med because of the difficulty). Dartmouth too is a great choice for pre-med. But of course these schools are expensive w/o any aid; though, such schools are generous with aid so don’t write off the possibility. The fact that you have a twin will certainly be factored into the equation. Otherwise yeah, it seems like applying to state schools may be the cheapest option if money is the key issue - as you may well know, for med school admissions, undergraduate school prestige is overshadowed by all the other factors when applying to med schools.</p>
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<p>Northwestern is definitely a major reach with a 31 ACT; three years ago, maybe not so much, but things have changed.</p>
<p>I’d love to go to Northwestern! But it is 61k a year, which is quite hefty, and they don’t really offer Merit based scholarships! Are there any scholarships not given by the university which can help with the cost which are within my reach?</p>
<p>Beavercreek! I used to go to middle school in Centerville.</p>
<p>If your family can only realistically afford 10k/year, and you don’t qualify for need absed aid, then you really got to reach down the ranks for merit aid. Be sure to calculate your FAFSA to see if you actually don’t qualify for need based aid.</p>
<p>Your scores are not competitive enough for merit aid at top 25 schools, and will make the top 10 schools high reaches.</p>
<p>Sit down with your parents and twin to realistically determine your financial situation, which should dictate where you apply.</p>
<p>A few comments:</p>
<p>1) Medical schools do not care, for the most part, where you do your undergrad. You do not get a lot of credit for going to Johns Hopkins vs. a respectable regional school - and at JHU, you may surrounded by many pre-meds with sharp elbows. Med schools care a lot about your GPA, your MCAT and, for in-state options, your state of residence. So any schools with decent sciences (preferably one where you can get to know the faculty for those letters of rec), will meet your need.</p>
<p>2) Medical school is very expensive. Your cheapest in-state option usually costs around $160,000. Privates can easily cost $300,000. You don’t want to pile on a lot of undergraduate debt, and then spend the next 20 years paying all that debt off. </p>
<p>3) In S’s experience, if 100 kids show up for the info session on applying to med school in freshman year, only 20 actually end up applying. That means you need to pick a school where, if you don’t end up being pre-med, you will still be happy with your options.</p>
<p>4) Your SAT score is low for many schools that would offer a lot of merit aid. Also, most of those schools will be less selective schools, where your grades and test scores put you in the top 20% of the class. Consider the less well known midwestern and southern LACs where being Asian makes you a URM and which offer generous aid.</p>
<p>Okay, first, emmacollete’s list in post #2 above is ridiculous! Even if you could get admitted to any of them (they are ALL high reaches!), NONE of them are going to give you the merit aid that you need!!!</p>
<p>If you’re looking for merit aid, you need to look at schools with average GPA/SAT scores well below yours . . . making you the exceptional candidate that the school is willing to pay for. Put simply, if a school’s average applicant has an SAT score of 2150, why would they want to pay extra for a candidate with that score? (And if their average is even higher than that, why would they even consider paying for you???)</p>
<p>Look at this thread on [guaranteed/automatic</a> merit scholarships](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html]guaranteed/automatic”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/848226-important-links-automatic-guaranteed-merit-scholarships.html). That means that if you have the required stat’s, the scholarship the school offers is guaranteed. You don’t have to compete for it. Some of these are full tuition scholarships!</p>
<p>Also, don’t limit yourself to large universities. Some LAC’s (liberal arts colleges) offer very good merit aid. But again, you have to focus on the less competitive schools. Don’t worry - you’ll still get a great education!</p>
<p>P.S. All those extracurriculars are lovely, but what’s going to count for that merit aid you need is your ACT score (if that’s the test you’ve decided to focus on). So, do what you can to get that score up! Merit scholarships tend to be very numbers-driven.</p>
<p>I know i’m going to study throughout the summer for my ACT! I want to get a 34 or a 35, which will probably help me in the Merit aids! Also my twin got a 2340 on his SAT (CR800,M800,W740) and is a National Merit Finalist, so that will help him!</p>
<p>Have you actually spoken to your parents about college costs? Did they say they can only afford $10k p.a. or are you guessing? Sounds to me like the latter. If they are unfamiliar with what college costs in the US, you also need to educate them a bit.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to my parents, and they can afford 20k/year (10k per kid). Our household combined income is more than 100k a year, so I doubt we’ll qualify for any need-based.</p>
<p>take Berkeley and UCLA off your list as they charge OOS students 33K/year before room and board. In fact they depend on the $$ that OOS students pay to help pay for instate Calif students. You wont get any merit or FA from them either. NYU is notorious for its meager FA, so eliminate that too.</p>