I know that money and distance may be a factor for you and your family. I'd just be interested in knowing what a Top 20 school would do with your admission application. By the way I graduated 267th in a field of 529 in a lousy urban high school a long time ago. I majored in dating girls and having a good time. Glad to see you're not the idiot I was. I tried to make up for it as an adult student, but you can never totally recover from a misspent youth.
Well, I'm considering Stanford, but that'd be too close to Jas.
From what I've heard, I could get a full ride at just about any private college in Iowa, but that's not the route I want to go. Deep down I want to go to ISU, but I want to do something in the field of medicine (Dream is to be a team doctor for the Sox or something) and that just won't happen in Ames.