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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,

I set up the same parameters for my kid’s search. They still applied - and were accepted to Top 50 schools, but they were non-starters for us too because of the costs.

Check out the schools listed by US News as regional schools. Some are not nationally ranked because they are too small, while others are usually below 150 to the mid 200s. Most give generous merit scholarships and many have Honors Colleges or Honors Programs.  My DC attends St. Joseph’s University aka St. Joe’s in Philadelphia. A Jesuit school with 4,000 undergrads, the school provides advising from freshman year on, and colleges of pharmacy, arts & science, business, nursing, education, and liberal arts. They also have many combined 3-2 health certification programs such as PA.

DC graduated from a local DMV private with a 3.5 and a 1440 SAT. They were not accepted into St. Joe’s small honors program because of their low-ish HS GPA. They’ve excelled at SJU, being a big fish in a little pond. Lots of great internships, shadowships, study abroad, and honors programs, and hands-on attention from professors. Majoring in finance, this summer they’ll be interning at [b]a best in class global firm with an intern acceptance rate of only 2%. [/b]

We read somewhere, early in our search, a research study showing that the best indicator of success is where a kid applies. If they see themselves at Georgetown or Penn, for example, they’ll achieve at that level.

Good luck to your DC.

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I can guarantee you that is doctored in some some way. [/quote]

They went to a DC private. It may be a matter of dad asking a golfing buddy for a favor. When people talk about the name of the school not mattering for UMC and UC kids it's because those kids have networks to rely on instead of the college [/quote]

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