<p>Did you take the PSAT? If you did, and you reported your Hispanic minority status, you may qualify for the National Hispanic whatever-its-called-honors. Colleges and universities that are looking for good Hispanic students get the list of these candidates and then contact the ones they are interested in. In other words, you might get targeted junk mail from places willing to throw a bit of money at you. Some might be “top” enough to please your parents.</p>
<p>Don’t fee bad that your parents are only willing to shell out for the very top universities. To a great extent their judgment is correct. Very few places are truly worth the huge difference between a private education and a public one. Check out your home state public universities and find one that you can be happy at in case everything else goes wrong.</p>
<p>You may also find the strategies of momfromtexas useful if you’d like to go to a school farther from home, but your parents can’t/won’t pay for it. She found full rides for both of her kids - not top25 universities, granted, but places her kids were very happy at:
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