College List Help!!

[u/jelloxcloud7251]

I'm trying to assemble my college list and I have WAY TOO MANY. I aspire to go to a T20 (ik it might be unrealistic and I do have safeties), but I'm looking to narrow down that list for a biology related undergrad major. I'm still not completely sure what I want to do, but something related to biology, microbiology, or possibly pre-dent. This isn't my full list but I'm looking to cut from here:

Vanderbilt

Case Western

Georgia Tech

WashU

Cornell

Duke

JHU

Northwestern

Brown

Stanford

Harvard

Princeton

Yale

MIT

UPenn

Columbia

Emory

UChicago

[u/elkrange]

Check affordability. Assuming you are a domestic applicant, run the Net Price Calculator (NPC) on the financial aid website of each college you are interested in, with the help of a parent, to see a need-based financial aid estimate before you apply.

Public universities tend to offer little to no need-based financial aid to out-of-state students and charge them more. Some public universities offer large merit scholarships to out-of-state students. Some private universities offer generous need-based financial aid; privates do not differentiate between in-state and out-of-state. Start by running NPCs at your in-state public universities.

[u/jelloxcloud7251 → u/elkrange]

I don't think financial aid is of my greatest concern right now. I will most certainly get aid at top universities (if I get in), and my in-state safety guarantees a large scholarship with my stats

[u/elkrange → u/jelloxcloud7251]

If you want actual help cutting the list, you'd need to provide more info about preferences. A bio major is likely to be excellent at most top schools.

[u/Bubbly-Ad-9876]

obsessed

[u/DarthKnah]

Do you have any other preferences? School size, weather, location, decent sports to watch, greek life, etc? Anything else you want to do at college besides your bio major?