Should I Bother Applying To Top Schools?

TooOld4School
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 05:52:42 +0000

Why do you think you will be rejected? Work on your SAT/ACT over the summer. Apply for questbridge or a similar program for low income kids, and apply to schools with good financial aid - at most you will pay close to zero. A kid who takes shop and AP classes simultaneously is pretty rare (I did too back in the day). Add the 1st gen and low income and you have a lot of pluses for a college adcom.

$250K in debt is not worth it - ever. And UF is an excellent uni so anything better is just icing on the cake. If you can come out with an engineering degree with only $20K of debt you could probably clear it in 1-2 years. $250K would take a decade or more.