Hi, Al-ice. I called SUNY Cortland Admissions. They transferred me to Financial Aid. It’s good news. Here’s the scoop.
If an out of state student is accepted at Cortland, she gets the full $7500 automatically - no questions asked. When I told her about your experience with the NPC, she couldn’t explain why it didn’t show up. She said that, it is awarded per semester and therefore shows up on the bill as $3750. The “up to” refers to the fact that part time students do not get the full $7500 award but do get a reduced amount, which makes complete sense and frankly is more than I would have expected for part time students.
My experience was with Oneonta last year, which has a similar out of state scholarship program. RWhen I ran the NPC, it was automatically entered into the award. I wonder if in your case, it some how didn’t pick up on the fact that you are out of state. You might try running it again to see what happens. My experience was that we were not offered both the out of state award AND additional individualized financial aid. Your circumstance might be different, so you can try it and see what happens.
The Financial Aid Officer with whom I spoke had more good news. There is a special small scholarship for students majoring in speech pathology and audiology. It is awarded by the Cortland Home Bureau - Communication Disorders and Sciences. It is competitive and is only for students already enrolled at Cortland and entering sophomore, junior, or senior year. The amount is small - $750. But every little bit helps. The Financial Aid Officer encouraged me to have my student apply and called the February 1 deadline. This didn’t make sense since I made it clear that I was inquiring for a current high school student and not a student already enrolled at Cortland. This is confusing, so if you should apply there, it would be good to inquire again about a scholarship for students studying speech and language disorders in case she was talking about something else.
The bottom line is that the Future New Yorkers scholarship puts your projected cost for tuition, fees, room & board at $26,844.
Interesting choice. Both UVM and Miami (OH) were on the original list of public Ivies back in 1985. A friend of mine went to Miami and would brag about that “public Ivy” designation all the time.
We spent all afternoon discussing schools and careers --and she like “Mom - why don’t I just go to any undergrad that will give me a ton of money that’s by the beach and then I can save money for grad school.”
I am now banging my head on the wall quietly --but also being respectful and appreciative for her financial savvy. So now I will be scouring CC because I don’t know that anyone wants to answer the ‘cheap schools by the beach’ question.
She said ANY beach - cold or warm – I am going to say ‘reasonably drivable to beach’ rather than ON the beach.
I think when she realized HOW expensive PA, Audiology, and especially dental school was – she re-evaluated undergrad. She’s even talking about military for dental school (if/when she gets to that point - I was AF so it’s not entirely unfamiliar but she doesn’t want to go military for undergrad).
I think LI might be a winner? LIU and Stonybrook might be good too? I have to run calculators! ETA: LIU -is LIU CW Post Oops
Hofstra - I’ll check that out too
SIgh -these all come up at 38-48K – LIU does give a big scholarship to a student from each state (which should help bc we are from Kansas) – and Hofstra does have a University Trustee Scholarship --but is that worth the effort to chase the very top end scholarship? It’s not like she is a perfect 4.0, 1600 SAT student academically.
Stony Brook is an excellent school, but I do not think they have the speech/hearing major. Also- it used to be known as a suitcase school so you need to do some research.
Just FYI, if SUNY campuses end up being of interest, for the past 2 years, SUNY has done a free application month for up to 5 schools per applicant. While CUNY only did it for students attending New York public high schools, I believe SUNY did not have such restrictions. I imagine it’s highly possible they will do it again next year.
FSU has a School of communication science & disorders and grants out of state waivers based on merit though I think that wouldn’t work with test-optional. But they have a number of scholarships.
In a very different climate, I believe St Cloud State in MN also has a solid communication studies and disorders program, is near the Mississippi River (not sure about beaches though), and is very very affordable in terms of out of state tuition.
Did anyone suggest C Michigan. No out of state tuition. It’s 28k tuition room and board. Has an undergrad major. E and W have the major too. Didn’t look at pricing.
You may use your test there.
As low as a 22 ACT or 1100 SAT gets money.
Have you looked at U Maine ? They often match in State.
Okay, just throwing out a bunch of names to see if anything works.
Biola (CA): About 3400 undergrads in the Los Angeles area. I suspect this is a religiously conservative college, but am not sure.
Florida State: About 32k undergrads. Sticker is around $32k for tuition, room & board for out-of-state students. Tests are required for admittance, however.
Hampton: HBCU with about 3300 undergrads. She asked for water?
I mentioned Ithaca upthread and don’t know how the NPC looked, but the city is on a Finger Lake.
Jacksonville U: About 2700 undergrads and @2plustrio’s family visited in the last year or two, I believe.
La Salle: This Philadelphia school has about 2400 undergrads.
Another one I mentioned upthread was Loyola Maryland, and I believe this uses the CSS.
Nova Southeastern: About 7200 undergrads. I believe it’s a commuter campus but with a definite chunk of a residential population. I believe that @momsearcheng and @AmyIzzy visited, as their kids may have received some very generous merit aid offers.
I don’t know how high they max out on merit aid, but Old Dominion in Virginia could be another possibility. It has about 18k undergrads and is in Norfolk, so a similarly watery area as Hampton (though perhaps not quite as close to the water).
Southeastern (FL): About 9200 undergrads
U. of Central Florida: About 59k undergrads. Either UCF or USF I think is known for its honors program. Florida publics do give very strong students waivers to in-state tuition, and your D might be competitive for one. In-state tuition, room & board is less than $20k/year. Florida publics require a test.
U. of Houston (TX): About 38k undergrads and about 50m away from the Galveston beaches. One of the nice things about most Texas publics is that if you get a modest scholarship (like $1500/year) that you may then qualify for in-state tuition as well. In-state tuition, room & board is about $21k.
U. of South Florida: About 37k undergrads and same comments as for UCF.
U. of Southern Mississippi: OOS sticker is about $23k and it’s about 75m to one of the MS beaches (Biloxi or Gulfport). Not as pretty as Florida beaches (the water is brown due to something natural, rather than blue/green), but they’re beaches.
West Chester (PA ): About 14k undergrads at this Hogwarts-esque campus. OOS sticker is about $34k, so perhaps there might be enough merit aid to bring this within budget?
There are really very, very few colleges which are truly on the beach. The ones which are in coastal areas usually require transportation and time to get to the beach.
The only exceptions which are truly on the water that I can think of are New College of Florida, Roger Williams in Rhode Island which is on the bay, and Hobart & William Smith which is on Seneca Lake in NY. Fairfield University is not on the water but it does have some housing on the beach which connects to campus via a shuttle. I’m sure I’ve missed some place, but they really are rare.
I have a GD who wants the same thing, so I sympathize, but I have to say that it really is a silly idea. Any kid who is focused on that is focused on the wrong thing IMO. Summer jobs are plentiful on Cape Cod and other beach communities. Some even have employee housing. Do the beach thing in the summer.
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