Chemical Engineering Substitution

NeoDymium
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:02:56 +0000

Well, to say the least it’s pretty strange that no merit scholarships come from a 4.0 GPA alone. Are you in a hyper-competitive state?

I assume your parents have enough money so that you don’t qualify for financial aid, but they just don’t want to give you any. That really does suck, and unfortunately that’s going to be painful.

You don’t have money nor any especially promising way to get it, and you definitely don’t want to mortgage your life on student loans because what guarantee do you have that things will even work out the way you want them to? If they don’t, you have crippling debt and nothing to show for it. A double major into grad school is just asking for trouble because so many things could go wrong on the way.

My suggestion: go to a good community college, take a solid basic curriculum (physics/chemistry/biology/ochem/calculus etc) and then do one of two things:

1. Transfer. You might get merit scholarships if you do well.

2. Find a job and get a degree slightly later.

Community college is actually affordable. Don’t waste your life on loans when you don’t know if it’s worth it.