Clearly, the kind of CC that has an agreement with Cornell isn’t the same kind of CC where youth offenders register and relapse. To all CC adults giving advice, please remember that not all CC’s are the same,not all function in the same way (ie., in Ohio, OP’s son would be better off attending a quasi-open-enrollment branch campus than a CC, if his goal is to attend a public 4-year college).
In-state, he should look into U Cincinnati’s Blue Ash campus, or the Ohio State’s Mansfield campus.
http://www.ucblueash.edu/
https://mansfield.osu.edu/
OP’s son could indeed register at Tomkins cc in NYS, they have a campus and residential halls:
http://www.tc3.edu/
Advantage: all he has to do is send his transcripts, he doesn’t really have to “apply” like through the CommonApp.
WRT to his Juvenile Detention: The CommonApp will ask, and most applications will ask. He’ll have to come clean, not seek excuses, and show how he learned his lesson. He can start t
UToledo didn’t cancel the admission, but they cancelled the scholarship. Therefore it’s no longer affordable.
Students can no longer afford to pay for their own college, so using up his entire college fund in a year and saying that then he’s 'on his own" is condemning him to being a drop-out - especially since he can’t get loans. OP and his/her son need to come up with a plan that’ll be financially doable for 4 years.
Run the Net Price Calculators for TC3, BlueAsh, and Mansfield.
If they’re too expensive, then OP’s son needs to apply for Fall 2016.
OP’s son may need a clean break with whatever he did, so could he choose a residential college far from his hometown - that’d open more possibilities for him.
Since he’s not eligible for federal loans, I’m guessing selling or consuming drugs (depending on the drug, it’d be seen differently - say, if he were to apply to Adams State in Colorado and his offense involved weed, it’d be considered very differently than if the offense involved molly or cocaine, and consumption vs. selling would also factor in.)
With a 3.0 and a 27ACT, there will be choices on the table for him around May 5th if he wants to apply for Fall 2015. Otherwise, he can work and/or volunteer, be exemplary, study to get a higher ACT in June or September, and apply to other colleges.
If his release is scheduled already, he can even begin applying to a few colleges that still accept applications and that may still have financial aid available for Fall 2015. I’m thinking that Hendrix may be a reach, but offers a strong academic environment that may interest OP’s son and match his potential. The previously mentioned Adams State in Colorado would definitely admit him.
Common App colleges still accepting applications and still having Financial Aid, that would admit a 3.0/27 ACT student:
Augsburg, in Minneapolis; Alfred, NYS; Albion, MI; Bradley, IL; Colby-Sawyer, NH; College of St Benedict, MN; Creighton, NE; Drake, IA; Eckerd, FL; Elizabethtown, PA; Gannon, PA; Gustavus Adolphus, MN; Hartwick, NYS; Hiram, OH; John Carroll, OH; Kettering, MI; Lawrence Tech, MI; Lebanon Valley, PA; Luther, IA; Lycoming, PA; Manhattanville, NYS; Molloy, NYS; NYIT, NYS; Ogglethorpe, GA; Pacific Lutheran, WA; Pine Manor, MA; St Edward’s, TX; Stetson, FL; Stockton U, NJ; SUNY Brockport, SUNY Old Westbury, SUNY Cortland, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Polytech; U Evansville, IN; UDubuque, IA; UMaine Farmington; Valparaiso U, IN;
RUN THE NET PRICE CALCULATORS to cull the list above. Get Fee waivers from your son’s former guidance counselor (since it sounds like you could qualify). Have your son work on his college essays already. Then apply to those above using the commonapp and see whether he can get into a college and get sufficient financial aid.
