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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do agree OP shouldn't be thinking about med school right now. The low SAT is not helpful but there are other routes to a successful healthcare career and guess what, Towson has pretty good programs.

I did notice OP commented her savings would only be a quarter of the total cost of colleges, so it she was referring to the 90k+ schools, she may only have about 100k in this special fund, and wanted to use some of it for the hypothetical medical school. Would not be surprised if she was budgeting 15k/year from this fund plus what she can pay herself, which probably takes us to the 30k/year instate options.

Not sure how realistic it is to find OOS schools or private colleges who can offer aid to a lowish SAT candidate to bring the costs down to 30k. Maybe if OP's child is an underrepresented minority?

Am surprised she didn't look at UMBC or St. Mary's. [/quote]

NP here. University of Dayton gave my lowish-SAT candidate (TO though) enough to make the cost $35k, plus a frozen tuition promise, and honors college. She got the highest amt of merit offered, plus if you visited campus, I think they'd give you an extra $2k a year for books.  You'd have to deign to lower yourself to attend a school ranked 163rd though (that's sarcasm, btw. I happen to think very highly of the school.)[/quote]

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