<p>Transfer for spring admit here. I appealed my financial aid and they gave a few more thousand a semester. With taking out 6k in loans a semester, there’s still 12,700 a semester left to cover. That seems just impossible. My parents really only want to pay about 8k a semester. What about the rest? What can I do? I have the fall, I could get a job and make money to put towards it. What about the year after? Does USC go up much in tuition? I have 4 semesters left. What if I appeal again? Any chance for that to work?</p>
<p>In the meantime, my current university starts classes Monday. The appealing process has taken this long, I haven’t procrastinated. I can’t say yes to USC without knowing where the money will come from. What can I do? What are my options? Words of advice?</p>
<p>P.S. Please don’t tell me that I can’t afford USC. I would have just asked my parents if I wanted that response. ;)</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter what response you ‘want,’ only the one that is correct. USC isn’t sitting on boatloads of money which they can give to lower-priority students just because they really really need it. They have a limited FA budget which they have to divide among a whole lot of people. They’re not going to just relent and give you another 51k over 2 years.</p>
<p>Transferring into a very expensive school is very difficult if you have FA needs. You will very likely not be able to pull it off without taking out large high-interest loans, which is generally just not a good idea.</p>
<p>man, I worked minimum wage at a movie theater for a couple of months and I put 80% of my paycheck into savings and saved $5k. you can pretty easily do that.</p>
<p>Hi Dreamupsidedown…No offense…I trust you’re not a math major 
Unless you were working more than 40 hours a week it would take almost 5 months of full time work at minimum wage to make enough so that 80% of it equaled $5,000. (around $6,300). Just saying…</p>
<p>Noodle,
This is how another student managed to attend and graduate at another highly ranked private university. Please note, this student was not afraid of hard work!</p>
<p>Found a job hashing in a residence for meals=no cost for meals except on weekends
Worked all summers and vacations=spending money for books
Started a small business of doing laundry for other students, folding it and delivering it to their rooms=helped pay some of fees
After attending the university and making fine grades, applied for a continuing student scholarship and received those funds for tuition
Worked at a campus job part time to pay for transportation and other expenses</p>
<pre><code> It is possible after the first semester to take the required class to qualify to apply to be a Resident Advisor. If selected that will pay for room and board.
Jobs will not come to you. An individual must be proactive, read ads, talk to people, check out the kiosk posters and perhaps the ideal job could be found to help pay expenses.
Good luck in your search.
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