You danced around this question instead of answering it the first time I asked it so I’ll ask again:
How is going to CC (which many smart kids with limited money do to save money) more disgraceful than a 2.3 GPA to your parents?
Are they seriously out of the loop and didn’t realize that a 2.3 GPA meant you weren’t going to get in to UM-TC as a freshman?
So to summarize:
Can you tell us if that thinking makes any sense?
Is there something you’re not telling us?
I am wondering whether OP should have a private talk with his guidance counselor, and see whether his guidance counselor is willing to talk with his parents.
Sometimes a person in a position of “authority” needs to say something in order to get people to listen.
@PurpleTitan I had a talk with them and they said that they will do what’s best for me financially but I really don’t know what to take from that. Another concern that I have is that I will have to do really well in CC as well and I don’t know if I trust myself to get straight A’s.
If you can’t trust yourself to get A’s, maybe you should just work and go to college when you’re more mature.
It’s not like getting poor grades at UMTC would serve you well.
I have a suspicion your parents aren’t going to be willing to pay until you can show you’re willing and able to do the work. Why don’t you take a gap year and try to find a job? After a year of working for a living you may have a different perspective.
Many people have tried to find alternate or “not so popular” ways to pay for college. If there were such ways, you needn’t ask the question as it would be public knowledge… There are really three ways to pay for college; get good grades to warrant merit scholarship money, have a true financial need or pay for it yourself. With a GPA that will be below 3.0 even if you get straight A’s your senior year, merit money probably won’t happen. Sounds like your parents make too much money to be truly need. So be prepared to pay.
You are fixated on 200K and that WAY TOO MUCH to borrow. Some colleges may be willing to take flyer on you given good grades in your junior and senior years but at what cost to you? You should apply but you’ve got to make some hard choices based on money. A CC is probably in your future and it will be a good path for you. Make the effort and prove to yourself you can do it, then transfer to a 4 year school.
When it comes to finding a job, it may be slightly easier if the companies come recruiting at the college you are at. But most of that effort will be on you and your college grades will dictate what you prospects are. So it doesn’t matter that much where you go to college.
Good luck and keep the grades up.
So I read little of this thread but get the general theme
Sounds like some cultural issues here with your parents thinking you will be a disgrace if you go to CC. That’s a shame on them. Will they love you less?
Let’s just be honest. Your a struggling student with big dreams
I was also and now I am a doctor. But I knew I had to go to CC my first year. Same professors taught there as the local university and they all told me it’s much cheaper just do that . Same class’s and actually tests according to them. I worked at a hospital part time to pay for it.
So you need to get your motivation and grades up. You need to do well in college even CC. Engineering with CS is extremely hard for the best students. You need to get your study skills way up and time management skills also way up
Lots of CS students drop a complete grade from high school their first semester /year. Think about that.
CC depending which one is not easy. Calculus 2 is Calculus 2 just about anywhere.
If you don’t get your study skills way up and prove to yourself you can do it then you might last one semester or year in a 4 year public with failing grades or have to repeat several classes. Now your stuck with loans that you have to repay and no job /skills. It happens.
Khan academy helps lots of students. Many use it in high school. Many use it in college. Think there might be some cs on there as well.
Do some free programming classes online. See if that keeps your interest.
Try to get help to improve your study skills and find out what works and what doesn’t work.
Hate to break it to you, but ASU does not have guaranteed admission for freshmen. It’s for transfers.
https://admission.asu.edu/transfer/gpa
@izrk02 The OP has a 24 ACT. See below. However, it is likely that Computer Science has higher entrance requirements, and/or is competitive for admission.
@kidzncatz Those are minimums to be considered for admission. Almost all public schools have them. Even so, OP likely does not meet the 3.0 competency course GPA requirement.
You only need one of the items on the list to be admitted to ASU, so OP’s ACT of 24 qualifies them for admission:
@izrk02 Only one of the criteria needs to be met for admission to the university. As long as the OP has taken and passed the competency course requirements, the GPA requirement doesn’t need to be met.
@kidzncatz My bad on that one. Either way, it’s still not a guaranteed admission program.
I didn’t read through 5 pages of posts. Your going to be on your own and there is no disgrace whatsoever to go to community college (normally for the first 2 years).
What would be a bigger disgrace would be not go to school and end up working at a min. wage job for the rest of your life, or getting a giant loan that will take years to pay off. One of our family friends is a doctor and she said she wished she would have done it that way.
The ending of the journey is the same, you have a degree. When you apply for a job you put down the degree you receive. No application I have ever seen asks where you got it or how much you paid for it. They just want to make sure you meet the requirements for the job.
Both of my kids did first 2 years at community college and then transferred to a university and with Fafsa and financial aid, they pay almost nothing. One for a teaching degree, the other for a science degree.
Only other advice is to study and learn as much as you can outside of your degree. Business is looking more at “niche” expertise, especially in the tech sector.