I need it thanks!
Just look at any of those small colleges that send you tons of mail and emails. You might not get financial aid but merit aid is much easier at schools like that.
Based on your other thread http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1867718-automatic-full-ride-with-my-stats.html , it looks like your parents do not want you to go to any of the four in-state CSUs you were admitted to (Humboldt, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose), or a school with lots of black students (like Prairie View A&M and its full ride merit scholarship that you found). Are they still vetoing your potentially affordable choices?
Dunno if it still does so, but Alaska used to offer very good $ incentives.
Alaska is in the midst of a financial crisis because of the plunge in oil prices. It was always a relatively cheap school for non-residents (my out-of-state tuition at UA Fairbanks was about the same as in-state tuition at Ohio State,) but I’d guess they’re cutting back on aid for out-of-state students.
I always see people commenting that U of Alabama offers lots of financial aid.
My understanding of your situation, from your previous threads, is this (please correct me if I have any of it wrong):
- You're in northern CA but want to go OOS, any state, for college.
- Your parents **don't** really want you to go OOS. Reasons include finances and your social anxiety.
- Your parents are having financial issues and can't contribute much, if any, to your education. Your mom has been pointing out the state schools where children of friends are getting grants. You didn't apply to any because you were **"determined"** to go OOS.
- However, now you're stuck because you've been accepted to some CA colleges, including one near your home in San Francisco. You don't want to go to any of them, especially the one in SF, because you want to go away to school (preferably OOS).
- Your CR+M score is 1140 but you hope to get a full ride to an OOS school. Failing that, you think you can cover the COA for an OOS college with loans.
You have a month before you have to commit to a school. If my take on your situation is accurate, that your parents want you to go to college but just can’t finance your dreams to dorm OOS, then you likely have to settle for a state school. If it’s true that your parents don’t like any CA schools (which doesn’t make sense to me given that your mom was encouraging you to look at them), then commute to a local cc and transfer to a 4-year college.
You can only borrow ~$5500/year, and with an 1140 CR + M SAT and a family that can’t contribute much, you’re probably not going to be able to afford an OOS school.
What are your parents saying about how much they’ll pay/year? Are you Pell eligible? What’s your net cost at the schools you’ve been accepted to (cost of attendance -grants, but before loans)? If you give us the budget and a general geographic area your parents are comfortable with, we may be able to make viable suggestions.
Bama doesn’t offer lots of FA to OOS students. It offers lots of MERIT aid to high stats students.
Yes, those colleges that send spam e-mails.
Eastern Nazarene College isn’t horrible, I applied there. They give tons of merit aid to almost everyone, and financial aid. It’s an okay school, but very religious.
@ucbalumnus Yes, sadly they are. 
@austinmshauri I don’t understand the whole 5500 loan thing. Out of state colleges have offered me the opportunities to take out enough loans to cover my entire first year’s cost so i technically pay nothing until i graduate (thats when i owe a lot and thats the worry, not so much during the year).
@newjerseygirl98 Do you think they’d let me in if i told them im nonreligious? 
@anionforanion can you copy/paste that? I think you’re misunderstanding what you’re seeing…
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Out of state colleges have offered me the opportunities to take out enough loans to cover my entire first year's cost so i technically pay nothing until i graduate (thats when i owe a lot and thats the worry, not so much during the year
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Those schools are offering YOUR PARENTS (NOT YOU) the opportunity to borrow the entire first year of college.
University of Wyoming
http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/non-residents/
They claim to have “every religion” on campus. You would be accepted, but they require students to attend mass. If you’re strictly non-religious, I’m not sure how much you’d enjoy it…
My son didn’t apply to a couple of schools that we are getting DAILY emails from. VA Wesleyan in Va Beach still has openings and they have promised $22k/yr for four years and Randolph University in Lynchburg VA promised big bucks, over $80k. I think they might be worth looking into. They both as of today have seats in the class of 2020. I live in VA and really know nothing about them.
Seconding those two (pretty decent) .
Really 'cheap’would include Chadron state and Minot State but those are cold and rural. And frankly I’d attend sjsu in state rather than those.
The colleges mention loans that * your parents * would have to take, which they won’t.
What’s your budget?
I know that St Michael’s, a good university in Vermont (located in Burlington, great college town) still offers scholarships but certainly not full rides.
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They claim to have “every religion” on campus. You would be accepted, but they require students to attend mass. If you’re strictly non-religious, I’m not sure how much you’d enjoy it.
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What school is that? @newjerseygirl98 (Mass is a Catholic term - are you talking about a Catholic school? I don’t know of any Catholic colleges that require every student to attend Mass.)
^Eastern Nazarene. Not a good college for a non-religious student.
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they may claim to have “every religion” but it would be hard to imagine that a student whose religion expects/requires weekend worship attendance would also be attending 20 additional “chapels” each semester.
Yes, that’s more than once a week and while they may admit students who are from other creeds or non religious, they wouldn’t likely apply unless they didn’t “do their homework” and read about the college.