u/Excellent-Catch7697

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I'm a current junior and I founded a nonprofit organization in my sophomore year. I host online educational programs for a kind of niche subject I want to pursue in college. I've had about 200 students total. Recently, I heard that starting a nonprofit looks bad on college applications and it is much better to have joined an already existing organization. It's too late for me to do that at this point, so am I cooked? The one thing that maybe saves me is that there aren't any organizations that specifically have programs for the exact subject I focus on, but there are a few organizations that do sort of similar things. I've put a lot of time into this organization so I would want to include it. Would including it make me look worse? I had also been hoping to list it as my number 2 extracurricular, should I not do that?

For some more context I am aiming for T10s.

Does anyone know which ~T75 schools have the most generous merit scholarships? I'm fine with liberal arts colleges and historically women's colleges as well! My family unfortunately does not qualify for need-based aid so we are looking for strong schools that give merit. For context, I have high stats/ecs/awards and would be competitive for T20s, so I'm looking into these merit scholarship schools as targets.