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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not very strong stats. Merit aid, if any, won’t be much.[/quote]

Don't listen to this.  1480 is nearly 99th percentile, and with 8APs the unweighted GPA is not bad, especially if the rest of the schedule is rigorous.

Apply to lots of large schools and see what you get.  Instate will be hard to beat though.  [b]Try Syracuse, UVM, Marquette, Pitt, UIUC, UConn, Mich State... really deciding where not to apply will be hard.  
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try this list too

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-merit-aid[/quote]
My kid had a 3.85 unweighted and a 33 ACT (so I guess roughly equivalent to OP's kid's SAT score). He applied to a lot of public and private schools in the 40-100 range, including some on your list, and got merit aid at all except Lehigh- the problem is that much of the merit aid at these schools is what I'd call the "coupon" variety- $12k/year, $15k/year, $18k/year kinda stuff. For example, he got the highest scholarship at UVM - The Presidential at $20K year - but even with that it still costs almost $40K/year. We were trying to bring costs down to UMD in-state, and none of the schools offered enough to do it. [/quote]

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