<p>Thought you said elsewhere you wanted a small LAC, not a big state U. What changed?</p>
<p>Ditto all who said thinking about taking out massive loans ($100-200K) for undergrad is a BAD idea. Look for a school where your stats will be in the upper quartile and maybe you’ll get some merit money. There are other posters here with stats worse than yours by far (and who also showed an upward GPA trend) who got into severl smaller LACs with some merit $$. He looked at the CTCL schools. Are your parents employed at the post secondary level? If so, what schools offer financial reciprocity with the ones they work at?</p>
<p>Please stop overgenralizing about some backwards towns in the south. Yes they exist, but as others have said, these exist in every state. As others have also said, VISIT. Dont base your opinion on what anyone else says, including us.</p>