My GPA is a 4.0, SAT was a 1220, but I plan to retest this October. I play tennis, a few clubs, and i’m native american. Iv’e been using Cappex, to find my chances so far. CU at Boulder is my top safety school (cappex gives me about 95%), Brandeis is my match school (80%), and Dartmouth is a reach (50%-60%). Is cappex trustworthy? Am i reaching to high? What say you?
St. Lawrence. With your 4.0, Native American heritage and possibly increasing SAT score, perhaps Hamilton would be a match.
What can your family afford? A safety must be affordable.
I forgot to mention i’m interested in the medical field, so a strong biology or biomedical field is preferred. I mean I plan to take out quite a few loans, plus assuming i enter the medical field i’ll gain enough money to pay it off sooner than most. To answer your question, money is low on my priority list.
For pre-med itself, you may find a few appropriate colleges in “The Experts’ Choice: Colleges with Great Pre-med Programs.”
However, If this is your intended route, it would be a long way before you would be paying off loans through your professional income.
If you intend to go to med school then keep the loans down as much as possible for undergrad. What is your home state?
I assume you know about the schools that give free tuition to Native Americans.
I live in Texas. Rice and UT are great schools, but I don’t want to apply to too many reach schools. UT is just massive, plus i’m not a big fan of Austin.
You should look at Trinity U and Southwestern, both in TX. They both are generous with both FA and Merit, which is important to drive down the cost of undergraduate so you can affordably attend Med School.
Both are smaller sized schools, small class sizes, and good pre-med training for you.
Good luck!
OP Cappex is self reported and perhaps not trustworthy. Did it indicate you had a 50-60% chance of getting into Dartmouth?
https://www.fortlewis.edu/financialaid/NativeAmericans.aspx
http://onestop.morris.umn.edu/aid/scholarshipswaivers/americanindiantuition/
If you are top 7% of your class then you are assured of admission to UT which is a great school. I can understand not being thrilled with Austin but that’s one option. You’d be a slam dunk for pretty much all the in-state public schools. What about TAMU? And if you need aid Boulder is not a safety. They have little aid for OOS students.
Boulder I’ll be 50k a year and pretty allowed 5.5k in loans. Where will the rest of the money coming from? If you’re not sure your parents can pay off income + savings, ask.
Dartmouth, Wesleyan, StLawrence, StOlaf, Qkidmore would all be possibilities. Run the NPC doebeaxh of these and discuss costs with our parents. If you intend to be premed, you need to find colleges that’ll require the least debt and will be most supportive of premeds.