<p>The 6-yr graduation rate at Rust College is 18%, according to NCES College Navigator. That is shockingly low. You would most likely be much better off at an instate public school.</p>
<p>What about American Jewish college(Unranked LAC) and Berea College?</p>
<p>Berea College is a good low-cost option for some students since it provides a full-tuition scholarship to all. Your biggest problem, though, will be getting accepted. Your stats are in the ballpark for Berea and they do take about 30 internationals per year. However, Berea only accepts students with financial need, and if you parents can pay $25K per year towards your schooling, you are not eligible.</p>
<p>Thank you all. And btw,do you think I still have chance getting into medical school if I went to unranked LACs such as American Jewish university?</p>
<p>Why don’t you go to a CC for 2 years, and then you’ll have more money to put towards your last 2 years.</p>
<p>i am living in a rental house now,the tuition of cc plus and price of renting and food together would be 15K+,enough for a school such as University of South Dakota without any scholarships. And USD is better than cc
unlike most of you,my parents need to pay rent.</p>
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<p>huh???</p>
<p>Is anyone else getting the impression that this whole thread is a hoax? The poster claims to be an internationla student and has asked us to consider four different campuses: one predominantly black, one Mormon, one Jewish and one historically Christian. Smells fishy to me.</p>
<p>all 4 of them have low cost,i am not a ■■■■■ thank you very much</p>
<p>I think U of South Dakota is a reasonable choice. I always put in a plug for Bemidji State in Minnesota - Bemidji State offers in-state tuition to out of state or international students.</p>
<p>If your own state’s in-state offerings won’t work for you, check reciprocity programs.
<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-college/2010/08/16/out-of-state-at-in-state-rates.html[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-college/2010/08/16/out-of-state-at-in-state-rates.html</a></p>
<p>i am living in a rental house now,the tuition of cc plus and price of renting and food together would be 15K+,enough for a school such as University of South Dakota without any scholarships. And USD is better than cc</p>
<p>Then go to USD…that’s the best option so far.</p>
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unlike most of you,my parents need to pay rent. *</p>
<p>??? You don’t think the rest of us have to pay for our housing???</p>
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<p>OP’s energy and precious spare time should be spent on completing applications for colleges where $25k per year covers the COA. </p>
<p>Further discussion on this topic is contributing to an excess of CC’s carbon footprint by unnecessarily consuming electricity to power the site server farm.</p>
<p>A warmer weather out of state school that is quite inexpensive is Southwestern Oklahoma State in Weatherford.
You get out of state annual tuition at first (about $9000) but if you participate in one of the activities they have specified (the activities include “Collegiate Activities Board”), they will drop you down to in state annual tuition (less than $5000) after the first semester
[SWOSU</a> | Student Financial Services | Scholarships | Non-Resident Tuition Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.swosu.edu/administration/sfs/scholarships/nonresident.asp]SWOSU”>http://www.swosu.edu/administration/sfs/scholarships/nonresident.asp)</p>
<p>but you think we don’t pay for our housing expenses? what is up with that?</p>
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<p>I seriously don’t know if I’m amused or offended. I don’t think any amount of advise (of which a great deal of valuable information has been offered) is going to sink in. </p>
<p>Spend some time reading the news becoming familiar with the recession… y’know people loosing their jobs, real estate foreclosure, and investments and retirement funds losing huge percentage of their value in the stock market. Just because cc families value education does not mean they have been immune to the recession. Many families would be glad to have a budget of $25k/year for college.</p>
<p>I honestly wish you the best of luck. Do not expect any sympathy from many with that attitude.</p>
<p>Perhaps the OP means that if he (she?) attended a CC and didn’t live in a dorm, and hence his family would have to pay for him (her?) to live in an apartment because there is not local family for to live at home with. So, the total COA for a CC would be higher than it would be for someone who could live at home, and might well be higher than the total COA for a 4-yr college with dorms.</p>
<p>Klipinger’s has a table with the total COA for various public schools, both in and out-of-state. There are many fine schools with a total COA lower than $25k, significantly lower in some cases. For example, I’ve heard good things about Truman State in MO, which costs under $20k.</p>
<p>[Kiplinger.com](<a href=“Kiplinger | Personal Finance News, Investing Advice, Business Forecasts”>Kiplinger | Personal Finance News, Investing Advice, Business Forecasts)[0]=ALL&myschool[0]=none&outputby=table</a></p>
<p>I would advise the OP to identify schools on this list where your stats would be competitive for admission, and look up their graduation rates here
[College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)
Look for colleges where the graduation rates are high relative to their selectivity.</p>
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<p>That’s what I intentionally mean. Thank you for clarifying.Actually I am surprised some people here didn’t get this.
And for the housing expenses I don’t have much knowledge about this,i am not even American and i didn’t pay much attention to the recession.</p>
<p>Regardless if the OPs family is renting or paying a mortgage, if the community college isn’t close enough to attend while living at home housing must be considered. That is not unique to the OP because ‘their family is paying rent’. It could be ANY family that doesn’t live within commuting distance of a community college.</p>
<p>The OP would have been better off to have said, unlike many of you my family does not live near a community college so housing would have to be added to the COA. This would have been clear. </p>
<p>sacchi got it which was excellent. The majority did not. I think sacchi’s advise to look for schools within the $25k/year budget whose stats are good matches for you is wonderful. The advise to look at graduation rates is valuable. If you are looking at a school that the majority graduate in 5 years your $100k could quickly become $125k. In this case you would want to budget to $20k/year, allowing for a probably 5th year, keeping you at your $100k budget.</p>