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Originally posted by Edmond:
I went to undergrad in Chicago at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Nice! I like Chicago. I lived near Wrigley Field for two years and SE Wisconsin for twenty. We took numerous school field trips to Chicago and I’d drive there as soon as I got my license. Naturally, part of me wants my kids to like all the same things I do. She had fun and enjoyed Chicago, but doesn’t want to go to school there.

Nope. She’s enamored with NYC.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Nope. She’s enamored with NYC.

Ugh... Except for maybe San Francisco Bay Area, she wants to go to college in the city w/ the highest cost-of-living in the country? I'm guessing Columbia? She could have a full tuition & fees scholarship, and the cost-of-living would still be prohibitive.

Worse, NYU. Or better because I think NYU clamped down Israel protestors in a matter of days vs the weeks Columbia allowed it to happen. UoM and FSU are also on the list because her closest friends have applied (they’re seniors) or will be applying (the juniors) next year.

For a minute there I thought her dream school was Alabama! Lol

No real recommendations on prep, but I’ll suggest taking the test at one of the earlier opportunities. Our son did well enough to easily get in, but not well enough to get the WUE (Western University Exchange I think, instead of out of state tuition, the qualifying student pays 150% of in-state tuition) on the first SAT go around. On the second try he did a little better on one, a little worse on the other with similar score. The third time he did over 100 points better, easily making the scholarship cutoff and saving $66,000 on his tuition over the four years. Starting early enough to try multiple times made all the difference in the world for him.

She’ll take it in March. That should be plenty of time to go through the books Amazon is dropping off on Saturday.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
For a minute there I thought her dream school was Alabama! Lol

I could support decision to go to Alabama much easier than NYU.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
"Last Fall, 50% of the accepted applicants at her dream school scored between 1480 and 1550, 25% scored higher, and 25% scored lower."

Isn't the max score 800 per section for 1600 total? And the average at this school is over 1500? Did something change in the test?

College Board website says 1500 is 98th percentile of actual test takers.

Yes, those are the scores at the top 30 schools or so schools in the country except the California public schools which don’t require the tests and a couple other public schools like UoM that have a wider range of scores. At a few of those schools, 25% of the students admitted got perfect scores.

Have you & your daughter looked into the Florida Academic Scholars program? It appears she would be a good candidate, and 100% tuition & fees covered is to put mildly, a very attractive offer.

https://www.floridabrightfutures.gov

As I mentioned before, even if she had 100% tuition & fees covered at NYU, the room & board, living & travel expenses for NYC are killer. Does she have that Hollywood fantasy that she can work 20hrs/wk and afford a spacious loft w/ roommates? People outside of NY think it'd be like Friends, when the reality is that it's more like TMNT, i.e., living in the sewers.

Oh yeah, we know about Bright Futures. It’s been a driving force in our household for over six years. My oldest son earned the FAS and used it for the first time this last semester. It’s not 100% anymore, but it’s close and I’m certainly not complaining about saving $7,000 a year.

Do you know about Florida’s Benacquisto Scholarship Program?

It’s a full ride scholarship to a Florida public university for being a National Merit Scholar Finalist. It starts with a really good score on the PSAT. This why my daughter took the PSAT; unfortunately, her score won’t cut it. It’s her first failure. I should have pushed preparing for it. Unlike my oldest son, who required a lot of guidance to get him where he is now, I’ve been 99% hands off with my daughter. She got a B+ for the 3rd quarter of the 4th grade in handwriting and she asked me “Daddy, does this mean I’m not smart?” She was serious and I still tear up about that. All I do is get her where she needs to be when she needs to be there and make sure she has whatever tools she needs because her way works.

Except for prepping for the PSAT, so my new dad job for her is to help her get the score she needs for NYU which has the side benefit of making school in Florida even more affordable. It’s a win-win.

With Bright Futures and based on the offers her friends who are seniors are receiving, I think we’re looking at $10k a year or less for FSU. Because she’ll have her AA degree, she can be out in two years for under $20k. We won’t know until she gets offers, but I’m guessing UoM will be $75k a year and NYU will be $100k a year. They don’t have to honor her AA degree or her 60+ college credits. In fact, NYU will only honor up to 35 credits which means she’d have to go there for 3 years.

I and everybody else here knows what she should do, but she does have to get into NYU to have the opportunity to make that decision though. I want her to make the decision and not have it made for her because she didn’t get in due to a low SAT score.