This - or those - that a $50K customer is a home run for - maybe an Illiniois Institute of Technology or Milwaukee School of Engineering type.
Many schools today are having to discount far beyond $50K and need that revenue to keep the doors open and operations running smoothly.
I sure hope so because they said they would be applying to all of the UCs.
@Eric.H do you live in California. And will you have attended a CA high school for three years and will you graduate from a CA high school.
And do you have one of the eligible visas to gain instate status!
Thanks for mentioning, I do know about that, it’s a pity that when I finish my high school it would be 2 years and a half, not reaching 3 years, I also felt bad about this
It may help to mention what state you are attending high school in, and how many years you will have attended when you graduate high school. Also, the type of visa can matter.
Some states may offer in state tuition to international students who graduate there after enough attendance.
There is no need to feel badly. Please put that aside.
You have a decent annual budget for college. Please give us some geographic areas where you might be willing to go to college. And places you absolutely do not wish to go to. This will help us narrow down options for you.
Check out the SUNY campuses. I believe they will be affordable for you as an out of state student. @aunt_bea might have more info. Or @sybbie719
@Eric.H - you have been asked a few times to clarify what visa you are on (and if a parent is resident in the state with you). Please understand this is just to try figure out what colleges might fit in your budget. It’s harder to help you without knowing that information.
Also, considering it’d save you tens of thousands of dollars, could you attend HS an extra semester (perhaps using dual enrollment to start on some college classes) to be considered “3years&graduated”= instate?
The matter of what visa you have is also important as has been stated already.
OP doesn’t need to meet the 3-year schooling requirement if they/parent are on one of the eligible visas and have been resident at least a year. it seems OP is in CA:
To meet the University of California residency requirements, you (as a student) and, in some cases, your parents must have the legal ability to establish a permanent domicile in the United States.
As such, you must meet one of the following requirements:
- Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (“green card” holder), OR
- Hold a valid, qualifying nonimmigrant visa (or other eligible immigration status such as asylee or refugee)
If you are in an eligible immigration status for establishing residency for tuition purposes, you must:
- Be in that immigration status on a continuous basis for at least 366 days immediately prior to the residence determination date (the first day of instruction) of the term for which a residence classification is sought.
- Maintain an eligible immigration status to continue paying the in-state tuition
Got it, my visa type is F2, and I lived in CA since I came to US. Thanks for noticing me.
Thank you - so, F2 as in a dependent of an F1? In that case, unfortunately you are out of luck with respect to instate tuition. F visas do not qualify for this, and the AB540 exception (which I think is what someone was referring to above re: 3 years of schooling or graduating from a CA high school) does not apply to visa holders.
dual enrollment won’t be considered as an additional half year I think
If you’re registered in HS and spend an extra semester to graduation (because you arrived midyear) it’d be interesting but if you’re F2 (dependent of s.o on an F1 visa) even that doesn’t apply to you.
That’s why knowing your visa was so important.
Oh, so then the UCs and CSUs work - well, if they do. Will leave that for others. These are the CA publics with the major (ABET accredited)
CPSLO
Long Beach State
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCR
UCSD
SJSU
Not sure if you’d qualify for WUE. I’d leave that for someone else. But for biomedical engineering, CU Denver and Colorado State, U Nevada Reno, U North Dakota, Oregon State, South Dakota Mines, Utah and Wash State all line up with ABET for biomedical engineering.
If you think you might want the major, better to start in it - and then transition out vs. trying to transition in.
Not sure if WUE works - but put for you in case.
CMU does not give financial aid to international students, so keep that in mind. CWRU and University of Rochester give financial aid to international students and also have (very competitive) merit scholarships.
Purdue is in your budget and is very strong for engineering.
For a safety, look at the merit aid options at UT Arlington, Texas State, Texas tech, and UT Dallas (Texas public universities often give oos waivers with their merit based scholarships)
You might want to check out the University of Iowa. They would be excellent for your interests, it is a fun college in general, and they have some International merit.
Actually, it sounds like this student will be considered an international and therefore out of state student for the CA publics. The F visas are not in the eligible list for instate status. I’m not sure the costs will work but the family can discuss this.
CA publics do not award financial aid to international or out of state students. So…costs would exceed what the family has indicated.
UPENN will likely be a waste of an ED. I would go with GT as en ED. Your RD list is more of a “reach” list so you may want to consider adding some less selective schools. Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Stanford, John Hopkins are very much a reach for you given your profile. You need more schools like UIUC.
OP is international and has a $40-50K budget.
GeorgiaTech doesn’t offer ED.
Then I would pick another school other than UPENN to use an ED on.