Conflicted student with a confusing transcript + limited college options

balochi
Tue, 17 May 2016 14:20:11 +0000

Based on your record and your financial status, your best bet is to apply to 100% need colleges. These typically cover everything for kids from families that make 30K or less, including room and board and even, sometimes, enough to pay for transportation and a laptop. However you do have to work and contribute (which is a small request since they give you so much). Look into Questbridge.

Thank you for this advice @MYOS1634 , I had not known about Questbridge. I am considering staying another year, but I’ll have to work out what to take senior year because I have limited options.

If you’re to graduate in 2017, the first applications start July 2016 and for state universities with merit, applying early is important (Dec1st is the absolute latest). REA/ED deadlines are November 1st. RD deadlines are between Jan 1st and Feb15.

This worries me, I don’t think I have an application impressive enough to apply ED next year. I think it’d be smart to stay an extra year. I’m also debating on whether I should go to community college for a year and transfer. Would I be applying as a freshman since my credits wouldn’t transfer? I would run out of the good DE class options senior year, and I’ve mentioned that my home school is limited. Would CC be costly? Since it’s cheaper, would I probably not get that much aid (can you get aid for CC or is that not how it works)?

I’m really into the History/Geography/Gov’t classes I can take DE. I don’t want to continue French because we have one teacher at my school, we don’t do any oral and it’s not teaching me any French. There aren’t any French levels open after III. And Arabic II is the last level, and I gained nothing from the class. I would rather spend that time (since I have the freedom to) take more English related subjects.
Thanks for your advice.