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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is trying to find strong schools that might offer merit as we don't want to pay much over the in-state price for UMD. UMD is a fantastic school, and he'll get in no problem, but I know he definitely wants to apply to some other good academic schools that might give merit. In terms of stats, from MCPS, not at W or Magnet, 1550+ SAT, 4.00 GPA, 4.85 WGPA, 10 APs completed by junior year, fairly strong ECs, probable National Merit Semifinalist, (will be) 4 year varsity athlete. Aside from Case Western and Northeastern, can anyone recommend strong academic schools that might offer merit? DS isn't interested in LACs and definitely not interested in any big southern schools like Bama, Ole Miss, UofSC, etc.
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If you're more donut-hole-y than poor, and you could afford to pay, say, $20,000 to $50,000 in cash per year for university, maybe your son could consider English-language bachelor's programs outside the United States.

In a lot of cases, the tuition is less than $5,000 per year. Most of the spending would be on bills for books, housing, food, travel etc.

Challenges:

- Your son would have to figure out how a European bachelor's would fit into what he wants to do next. He should ask his dream grad programs if he would have to do anything extra to make his European bachelor's U.S. grad school compatible.

- Your son might not be able to get any kind of financial aid, including student loans, to pay for school, and he might have trouble getting student jobs.

- If he doessn't speak the local language, he might be stuck hanging out with other grad students.

- Programs in places like England and Scotland tend to be a lot more expensive for American students than programs in places like Germany or the Netherlands.

Here's a site that talks about the cheap programs:

https://www.bachelorsportal.com/articles/2440/8-affordable-eu-countries-for-studying-a-bachelors-degree-abroad-in-2021.html

Also, see:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/top-english-speaking-bachelors-programs-eu/

https://www.educations.com/search/institutes/bachelors-degree-on-campus-english-europe/a62-b600-c747-d58?languageId=1

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Interesting thought. Definitely in the donut-hole and not poor. It’s simple because we have two in college together that we want to avoid private and OOS schools because we don’t qualify for aid. Not sure about what he wants to do for grad school (though he’s positive he’ll get an advanced degree), but do you know how European degrees are viewed by US schools? DS speaks Spanish and plans to study abroad, but I’m not sure how he’d feel about going to school abroad.[/quote]

I don’t really know yet. My son is going to a European University next year, so we’re about to start finding out.

My hope is that U.S. grad schools and professional schools will be fine with students who’ve gone to good European universities and have U.S. passports, and that my son will be able to solve any employability problems by going to law school or getting a master’s degree in the United States. Time will tell.

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