Hello all! I’m a senior this year, and looking to attend a 4 year college preferably in CA but must be in the west coast.
Demographics:
ethnicity: Asian
gender: female
financial: 110k combined, middle class family
GPA: 3.65uw/3.81w
I hope to major in biology and minor in business, as well as attend the Clinical Laboratory Scientist Program.
Safeties:
SJSU, SFSU, CSUEB, Stanislaus State Uni, Sonoma State Uni, Monterey Bay Uni, Washington State University, Arizona State University
Matches: University of Nevada - Reno, U of Oregon, UC Merced, UC Riverside
For Biology you might also want to look into Humboldt State.
I think you might have a few too many safeties, and reaches? Maybe look into the different schools and narrow down your list based on programs offered and location.
I agree that you have too many safety schools. What is your local CSU? That should be one safety school unless Biology is an impacted major. Select one or two more CSU’s if you want as a safety.
@pricklypear: You do not need to attend a school that has a CLS major/program since the CLS Training programs are post Bacc programs. As long as you take the required courses to apply to a CLS program, you can attend any school that offers these courses.
Academic Requirements require a Bachelor’s degree with courses taken:
16 semester or quarter equivalents of chemistry including clinical chemistry or analytic and biochemistry.
18 semesters or quarter equivalents of biology including hematology, immunology and medical microbiology.
3 semesters or quarter equivalents of physics (light and electricity).
That makes the in-state universities in California much more affordable and very good choices.
You are in a WUE state. Do you know if you get WUE tuition at Washington State or any of the other universities on your list? My understanding is that this is sometimes major specific, which puts it into details that I have not paid attention to.
For UCB, I didn’t see a place where I could select how much my parents will be contributing. They will be contributing up to half the tuition each year, on conditions (personal and academic). UCB is automatically filling out the contribution as $0. I ran the NPC again and this time selected to live on campus as opposed to the Fall Freshmen Program and I got around 9k/year as my grand total price.
The Net Price Calculators look at parent financials like income and sets. The colleges calculate how much they think your net cost (what your parents will be paying). The NPC really doesn’t care what your parents will be contributing.
For UCB, are you sure you entered the correct amounts in all the fields?
What your parents are willing to contribute and what colleges think that your parents should contribute are two different things. Your cost to attend college is solely based on the latter.
OP: I just checked UNR and you appear to qualify. No limitations on majors. I think you’ll see it’s much less expensive than your cost above. Check other schools on your list as well.