Oakland University reviews?

GuessME5
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:18:11 +0000

Hey all, I’m vying for college admissions for the fall 2019 term. I came across this school which could potentially offer a full tuition award, but I’m not sure if the need based grants (Housing Grant) at Oakland are exclusively reserved for Michigan residents or for everybody else, provided they have a satisfactory academic performance and EFC <12000.

How would rate and review this university? Also, could you suggest if it would be a good fit for me? I’m a US Citizen from India, EFC 0, 4.0GPA, 1600 SAT, great ECs and other stuff. I’m planning to major in Finance, the program should be heavily based on math & CS than liberal art courses. Would prefer academically rigorous, enough to take CFA exams, active social life. I have plans for grad school too. So is Oakland a good school? How’s it reputation outside Michigan, especially the Finance program? If I’m only awarded the full tuition and not the housing grant, is it worth to take out $27,000 in federal loans for this university?

I know most of the people would ask me to apply and check out, but I don’t have the luxury of applying to a dozen colleges. So I’d like to get this cleared up so I can decide to retain or strike off Oakland from my list.

Thanks you in advance for your time and advice!