<p>Please read point 1 of <a href=“Before you ask which colleges to apply to, please consider - College Search & Selection - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1621234-before-you-ask-which-colleges-to-apply-to-please-consider-p1.html</a> . Reach/match/safety cannot really be assessed without your cost constraints; a safety must be certainly affordable as well as being certain for admission, while reach and match need to account for how difficult it may be to earn any merit scholarships needed to make the schools affordable.</p>
<p>If you can afford about $20,000 per year, Howard is a safety, since it has an automatic full tuition merit scholarship for a 3.0 HS GPA and 1170-1290 SAT CR+M: <a href=“http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman”>http://www.howard.edu/financialaid/grants_scholarships.htm#Freshman</a> . Higher SAT CR+M or ACT scores can get better scholarships there, so you may want to try the ACT and retry the SAT. But apply early, as the scholarships are given on a first-come-first-served basis to those who meet the stats for them.</p>