hi all!
so i got into NYU liberal studies (undergrad) but with no aid. My parents can pay for the first two years with no difficulty but later on it might a little hard. I am thinking of doing the first two years from there and then later on transferring to a cheaper one. Is this a smart move? or should i pick Indiana university whose tuition is easy to afford for the four years.?
thanks!
Attend a undergraduate program with the absolute intent – and that includes the financial means – of remaining there through graduation. Any other strategy is foolhardy. The risks of an intentionally split approach are clear, for example:
What if you aren’t admitted to a transfer institution you like and/or one of reasonable stature (not all universities accept junior transfers AND admission as a transferring student is generally more difficult than as a freshman)?
What if many completed course credits do not transfer and/or count towards graduation requirements, and/or if major and other graduation requirements do not align, and/or if the new university has a three-year residential requirement to graduate (all of these will result is SIGNIFICANT additional and unanticipated time and costs)?
What if you “fall in love” with the first university, its students, its faculty, its culture, its community (not to mention a young man or woman). . . and then have to depart after fours semesters?
What if you are engaged in serious research, and/or in a major multi-year academic project, and/or in ECs that are critical to you . . . and then are compelled to transfer, leaving these – and other equally important things – incomplete?
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The foregoing only illustrates – it’s not a comprehensive list of the deficiencies – the folly of an intentionally split strategy.
Go to Indiana U for all four years.
Use some of the money you save by doing that to pay for a couple of vacations in NY, or for a semester of study in NY.