@AgentXJP I read your comment as rude. If you didn’t intend it that way, then okay. I apologize. Yet, you have to understand that anything written online is open to interpretation, and I guess I read it in a way that was the opposite of what you intended. “Did you do the math?” to me implies that I did not. In fact, I have gone over the numbers and decided that I want out of SJSU. My bank account will be out of money by the end of spring if I stay here.
I was accepted to UC Merced for spring. I applied in the summer when I thought I didn’t have housing. I got housing a week before school started at SJSU. I thought the financial aid package was good, which is why I chose SJ in the first place. But when it came time to pay for classes, after financial aid was deducted, I was still $1700 in the hole. It seems they changed their mind about a university grant that would have covered it.
People are often confused on how I’m going from a CC to a CSU to a UC. Or are confused why I would want to do that. My CC did not offer any Japanese classes that coincide with the assist.org agreements. I took them anyway and was told by a counselor at SJSU that they don’t count. I tried taking the placement test and learned why those classes don’t count–they didn’t prepare me for anything. I am in Japanese 1 right now. I have to get to Japanese 6 on a semester system, with no levels of Japanese being offered in the summer. Japanese 6 is a prerequisite for four culture classes that are part of the major. That’s why it takes four years.
I still haven’t heard from UCSC, btw. UCM has a new major and now offers Japanese classes, and their aid is all-inclusive with no sudden reversal of grants–I called and checked–so I might as well just do it.