Am I hopeless for college?

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:56:12 +0000

You can’t afford the Universities of California. There are MANY students, probably a large majority, who can’t afford to attend the vast majority of universities. I know many students with very close to straight A’s who cannot afford to attend the highest ranked university that they could have gotten accepted to.

UNLV and UNR are very good universities. In you situation I would also apply to Arizona and see what sort of aid you get. I am not familiar with merit aid out west (we live in the opposite corner of the country), but your stats might very well help you a lot. Also, your very strong high school performance implies that you are very well prepared to go to university and do very well.

If you want to be an engineer, then you might want to point out to your parents that of the 20 highest paid bachelor’s degrees, the large majority of them have “engineer” in their name. You can do very well in life with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. If you have a family income of $30k per year, then getting a very good very well paying job with a bachelor’s degree seems like a very good plan to me.