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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11th grader was planning on attending our good but not great state flagship.  Admissions is basically guaranteed, and it's nothing like NoVA kids fighting to get into UVA.  We're a donut hole family and would need very generous aid to attend anything else, but...
In the course of 11th, kid got a 224 PSAT NMSF index, meaning they're almost guaranteed to be a NMSF.  And they just recently got a 36 on the ACT.  They didn't really study for either PSAT or ACT.  So, which T20 or T50 schools are likely to give exceptionally generous aid or scholarships to a kid with the following stats:

Planned major: biochemistry
-GPA: 3.98 uw with one A- in 9th grade honors English
-APs: 5s in Calc, Chemistry, US Government, Euro History.  4 in English Lit.  Will finish high school with 10 APs and another 5 post-APs.
-NMSF
-ACT 36
-EC: okay, but not related at all to the major.  Performance in 3 school plays, with a lead role in 1.  DM for school Dungeons and Dragons club.  3 years of mock trial.
-community service:  okay, but nothing special.

Kid is perfectly content to do the honors college at the state flagship, but we'd like a few other options on the table.  Any suggestions?[/quote]

Ivies and T15 privates, OP. Apply to as many that have a theater/drama scene, which is likely all but MIT and Dartmouth unless that has changed. All will be an excellent academic fit with the majority of (non-athlete) students on par with yours, meaning yours is likely to be "average". Some students cannot deal with that: if so, aim lower like T21-35. Other students truly thrive on the vitality that comes from being surrounded by high-achieving go-getters where it is common to be intense about art or EC and also intense about studying. 
Ivy/T15 private will give you the best financial aid, most give some aid for families up to around 250k HHI. 
Northwestern, Brown in particular love theater kids though that also means they get a lot of them applying. [/quote]

This is wildly unrealistic.  Little to no chance at T25 without more impressive ECs.[/quote]
There is no reason whatsoever that OP's kid shouldn't apply to T25.

Please. You all would laugh at my kid's ECs. He's at a T10. It is not about DCUM "impressiveness."[/quote]

But OP is not going to pay more than $30,000 per year. What is the point of applying?[/quote]
First, OP needs to use specific college Net Price Calculators before deciding whether top schools are affordable or not. OP's income level is low enough that I think the aid will vary school to school.[/quote]

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