Well UMD and Fordham are wasted apps in my opinion. Same with AU and GW - given a $40k budget. Some SUNYs could work.
So you want to stay close, Look at Mary Washington, Salisbury,- those both hit. SUNYs are pricey - Albany, as an example, won’t hit $40k but they offer a flagship match - they’d charge what Rutgers charges -so look into that.
WVU is a close by flagship that will hit
So you’re not open to going further away?
This sounds like a masters in public health.
UMBC has applied sociology BA/MA program that might fit.
If you really want to transfer, you have to decide what is a deal breaker and what is nice-to-have.
I’ll give you an example that I know well and why I think it could work but doesn’t based on what you said.
Penn State University Park has the major you want - Applied Statistics within the Math&Stats major, and that requires an area of focus already built in, which can be sociology courses. They also have SODA, a small major where stats/data science is applied to social science fields and most especially surveys (politics and behavior). Students live around campus jr/sr year. There’s a walkable college town. There’s always things to do and people around on evenings and on weekends. The campus is not split, with lots of green space and traditional quads etc.
HOWEVER it’s 4 hours to the nearest city, it’s HUGE (and as a transfer would likely be pretty alienating), upper class on-campus housing is limited so many students live in student villages/complexes on university bus routes, and most importantly will likely be 55k even if as a Jr you don’t live on campus (there’s zero merit). As a result it’s not a real possible choice.
Another example: Haverford is close-knit, small, all jr/sr live on campus, it’s within easy access to the city, they have a statistics minor you can associate to any major, no focus on business but rather on various forms of stats, and are pretty flexible with double majoring. However they are 90k with no merit.
tl;dr IMO it’s also unlikely you will be able to finish in two years if you transfer and want to double major.
At some/many schools all your credits won’t transfer. At some/many schools even if all of your credits transfer, they won’t fulfill the new school’s core requirements. At other schools the stats major may be in the B school where it may be difficult to get the classes you need.
Understanding the full picture of transfer credits can be quite difficult to figure out before you enroll at a given transfer school, as some schools won’t even begin the process until then. Talk to the transfer admissions officers, plan out schedules at each school on your list (pay attention to classes only offered once per year or even once every other year), and look at Transferology
Good luck.
My son is a TCNJ graduate, he rarely came home and enjoyed his time there. Many from our HS also go to Rowan, I haven’t heard it’s a commuter school.
OP- MWFan is giving you solid advice. Every college (and sometimes every department chair or Dean) gets to decide which credits- whether transfer, a semester overseas, a summer course taken elsewhere- are going to “count”. And something can “count” for a Gen Ed but NOT for a degree program. Which likely means you’ll have enough credits to graduate in four years, but not enough coverage in your major to graduate.
I think finding a sociology department that includes rigorous quantitative analysis may do the trick for you–but you’ll need to go through the course catalogues of any college you are considering to figure out which ones will work and which ones won’t. But a transfer, plus a double major, plus cost constraints, plus no “Midwest” which is more than half the country… that’s where you’re trying to thread a very narrow needle.
The alternative is a statistics major which is basically at every college in the country (even if it’s called the applied math track in the math department) and then trying to fit in as many sociology courses as you can. That will open up a lot of places for you. And keep an open mind- the more business oriented classes may not sound like they are of interest, but data is data. And whether you are manipulating census data (very useful in sociology AND business), global GDP data, health outcomes for a particular demographic, etc. the techniques and analytics are transferable across domains. The Psychology departments of the places you’ve considered may have more robust analytics– it often attracts more “mathy” kids than sociology, ditto for Econ.
I don’t know if the finances will work out because living in NYC is so expensive, but have you considered Hunter, City College, Queens College, Brooklyn College?
Good luck!