<p>With only one in college, you likely won’t get much/any aid. </p>
<p>What are your parents saying? How much are they willing to pay each year?</p>
<p>Go to JHU’s and Smith’s websites and use their NPCs and see what results you get.</p>
<p>They said as long as i get 10k from a school, they will let me go. I highly doubt it, but I guess I will have to wait and see.</p>
<p>College, someone else asked if your parents have a tuition benefit you can use at either their university or as part of the tuition exchange program. I do think the preliminary tuition exchange application deadline has past, but I’m not sure of that. Also, some colleges give reduced rates of tuition for professors kids at that college. Do your parents have that benefit?</p>
<p>You have a family of six. It is possible that you might see a small amount of need based air at the most generous schools on your application list. </p>
<p>I do hope that you have a financial safety school on your application list.</p>
<p>Take a look at the NPCs for each of those schools, and it will give you a good indication of what you can expect. Most of those schools do meet full need and don’t have a lot of merit money in their mixes, so you will be able to see how it will likely work out for you. If your family owns a business, if you have a non custodial parent in the mix, or any other unusual situation, the calculators may not be able to take those things into consideration, do be aware. </p>
<p>It’s a nice list of schools, but it’s really the easy part to come up with those names. The most difficult, challenging and important part of the college search is to find some schools that you KNOW will take you and that you KNOW are affordable. Getting some such schools that also come as close as possible to meeting other things important to you is the crux of the college search. Anyone can come up with those schools. It’s the schools that are not at all well known that take the work to find. Though, the term “safety” is often used for them, they are really the schools that make up the foundation of one’s college list. Once you have them in place, you can come up with the other possibles that are on every list under the sun and require very little research. You have the time, so do put in that WORK, because work it is. There is no guarantee that any of those schools will take you and getting substantial aid from them is not at all likely.</p>
<p>Just scanning earlier posts, and I see that you have a good back up with your state university. So enjoy looking at all of the other possibilities. You might want to look for some schools that will give you merit money, as getting any schoalrship from these is very difficult.</p>
<p>If the OP is currently a senior, it’s a little late to be looking for schools with good merit awards (if she has not already done so) as the application deadlines for merit consideration have mostly gone by.</p>
<p>Glad to know that the OP has an affordable in state option.</p>
<p>Yeah I poste before that my tuition for my state university is free because my parents work there. In addition, I did not only apply to schools for their name. I chose them as they are good for what I want to major in.</p>