@row566
I know that your thread didn’t generate the responses that you wanted to hear, but we are genuinely concerned that you’re going to end up with no/few affordable schools. We don’t want you to end up at a safety that will annoy you or make you feel like you missed out.
What is your current school list?
Edit…Now I learn that you have me (and maybe others here) on ignore. It’s very sad that you don’t want the help that you really need.
Some messages are hard to listen to when one has a certain path in mind. We just hope that you can “grieve” your dreams in short time and be ready to come up with a realistic school list.
Are you a NYS resident? Apply to Stony Brook. You could pay for that with the $16k from your parents, summer work earnings, and a federal loan. Also look for school with guaranteed merit aid. There’s a thread with a list of them pinned to the top of the financial aid forum.
@austinmshauri I’m guessing that this NY resident has greater aspirations than a SUNY. This could be a case where a strong-stats student believes his stats warrant going somewhere other than the SUNYs where all his classmates are going.
That’s fine. He has the stats to get big merit ELSEWHERE so that his parents $16k can pay the rest of the costs.
But, since he has me (and likely others) on “ignore”, he’s not seeing the messages unless someone copy/pastes our posts into their posts.
I agree, @mom2collegekids. But my hope is kids add the SUNY to their list anyway because if they don’t, their alternative is the local cc. I suspect some of them hope that if they don’t add a financial safety the parents will cave and pay for the expensive school instead of allowing them to go to cc, but I don’t think that happens much, if at all.
@row566, I know it’s tough when parents can’t or won’t pay their EFC. You have to be super vigilant and make sure you have options you like next April. We see lots of kids here who hope their parents change their minds about paying, and even some whose parents do promise to pay when they really can’t. Sometimes what colleges calculate just isn’t affordable. It’s better for you to know your situation up front so you have time to figure out viable options.
At least apply to Alabama before the December deadline. From everything I read, they’re a great school, especially for the sciences. They’ve built over 45 buildings in the last decade. Their Science and Engineering is a 1,000,000 square foot complex. I’m going to visit someday just to see the campus. I’m told it’s beautiful. The dorms are very nice. Some of the SUNYs are building new dorms, but I don’t think they’re as nice as Bama’s “super suites” (mini “apartments” with 4 private bedrooms, a living room and a kitchenette.) If you can’t tour it, at least apply. In the spring, I think you’ll be glad you did.
Some of Cornell’s contract colleges have articulation agreements with various NYS CC’s and SUNY’s (so you could go to one of those for 1-2 years to save some money then try to transfer in), but the problem there is that med schools like to see you take your pre-med courses at 4 year schools.