Applicants feel overwhelmed by college choices

“In junior yr at a dual credit school and feel lost. The past couple of months, I've been trying to look into what colleges to apply to and have even toured some, but they all sound the same. I'm ambitious and want to go to a good college in the New England area for business management and poli sci, but have bad social anxiety so I don't have much for leadership positions and haven't really formed relationships with teachers. I have a 3.9 UW, an okay sat score I'm looking to i”

“Title, international applicant applying to US needing financial aid that covers 100% or close to that percent of everything ED 1: Swarthmore EA: Augustana college (Illinois) Beloit college Occidental Centre college Gettysburg college Rhodes RD: Barnard Dartmouth Yale Brown Williams Skidmore Claremont McKenna Haverford Bryn Mawr Mount Holyoke Union College submitted by /u/Recent-Ground-1704 [link] [comments]”

“I am a high school senior with a 34 act and difficult course rigor (14 APs), but my family is high income so I likely wont get a lot in financial aid. I want to add more prestigious schools to my list as high matches/reaches, but I also don’t want to spend a lot of money for undergrad. Does anyone have any college recommendations that I should look into that have good merit scholarship while also providing an outstanding education? I would like to go to a LAC that is smaller so I can have relati”

“I’m a Class 12 student from India with a 1500 SAT (790 Math, 710 English), planning to apply to around 30–40 US colleges. I want to study something combining finance, economics and mathematics, preferably a STEM program such as Financial Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, or Economics + Math. My goal is to work in finance, especially investment banking/asset management. I can pay around $25k/year, so I need substantial financial aid and would ideally target colleges that meet full demonstrated n”

“I really don't know what's good and what's not. I have 1-2 reaches, the rest being targets, a total of 6 schools, but I feel like I should have more, and I don't know what safeties I should have. I'm planning on going into mechanical engineering or something related, does anyone have recommendations on if I should have more, and ideas for more if so? submitted by /u/Objective-Command764 [link] [comments]”

“I’m a high school senior looking to ED somewhere and I have visited so many colleges in the past 5 weeks that they are genuinely started to blur together and I don’t even know what I want anymore. It’s that + a mix of everyone trying to get in their 2 cents and tell you their opinion that I truly don’t know where to ED. I know I don’t have to, but I would like to. Anywho what are some questions to keep in mind when brainstorming? I’m gonna start a pros and cons list tonight. submitted by &”

“International student, looking for financial aid, I know I will most probably not get what I require, but I still wanna give it a shot School Preferences Location/Setting: No specific preference Size & Vibe: study alongside ECAs focused. Not party and all Costs/Budget: Intl student, looking for major financial aid, merit based aid. 10k$ COA Schools Already Considering: haven't considered any for now. Searching for several LACs like Grinell, Williams, Uni of Richmond etc alongside St. Lou”

“I need help cutting down my college list (it's currently over 20 schools oops...). Here are the ones I'm on the fence about: - Indiana University (Kelley Public Policy Analysis) - Claremont McKenna - Barnard - UVA - Carnegie Mellon - Cornell (come up with things other than the Cornell 7 please) - Wellesley - Tulane Context: 4.0 GPA, 1580 SAT, intended pre-law applying to mostly economics/PPE at most schools, not in state for any of the above options ETA: some of these schools (like IU Tu”

“i thought UofRochester, Lehigh, WFU and CWRU were need-blind so, as a low income domestic (somewhat competitive?) applicant, i put them in my safeties but i emailed them and found out that all four of they are actually need-aware does this mean i should remove them from my list? my main purpose of adding these four colleges were to have a safety any help is appreciated and i'm willing to provide any other info if needed ty submitted by /u/racecar1racecar2 [link] [comments]”

“Hello everyone! I am a highschool senior that is unfortunately driving themself crazy wracking their brain, trying to figure out which colleges to apply to. I live in California and am mainly looking for colleges in the same state, although it's not a requirement. My GPA is I believe around a 3.6 so I am average? I think. I go to a charter school at the moment so I do not have the resources regular public highschools have. I have been looking all over and I am not sure I really have a prefer”

“Our school allows us to apply to 18 universities. And I don't quite know which ones to apply to. I heavily rely on full grant scholarships since my country is lower-middle class, we can't really afford it. I am in my junior year. And I do think that it will be better for me to pick a university and move towards it rather than doing some random things and wondering which university will accept me. (Ye, I'm sorry - I couldn't put my thoughts into words in the last sentence) s”

“okay so I have been researching since maybe summer? And I have too many options in too many countries and I’m finding it really hard to shortlist. First of all I wanna major in business (would like dual degree of finance and marketing) ALSO IM AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FROM INDIA There’s so many thoughts going through mind right now 1. I hate finance, but it’s way safer than marketing so, but again I wanna get into consulting as well so now I’m stuck between marketing , consulting and finance. 2.”

“Currently a senior applying to colleges. For my targets, I have Cooper Union, Lehigh University, Purdue University, Lafayette College. I tried selecting solid engineering programs that give financial aid as a student with a family making 75k ish.?Purdue probably won’t give me much and isn’t in the north east area where I live and want to be, but I really don’t mind going out far, just seeking for good engineering programs that I don’t have to pay much. Do you think these are solid targets and an”