@MassMom321 thank you! yeah i am bilingual just to make that clear
@MYOS1634 no, i don’t have to use the scholarships for this fall; latest I can use them is spring 2024. while i could do that, i think it may have drawbacks; the cc offers its own scholarships for students. first round of scholarships opens in august and the second round is around february. assuming that you can apply for both if you start in fall, i could be losing potential extra money (even if i dont really know if I’ll need it given what I already have, but still.)
i dont know my exact EFC. when i filled out my fafsa since my understanding is that im not an eligible non-citizen i declared so in the application. when you do that they really don’t give you any info.
some more details since you asked and they’d probably be helpful:
3.9uw, 5.6w gpa
my math progression was alg1, geo hon, alg2hon and then precalc honors. sidenote: loved my precalc teacher bc he wanted us to succeed so he challenged us w/ projects and i did a project where i designed a fake, unit-circle-themed over-the-counter medicine product. like I’m talking designing the packaging using Illustrator, Photoshop and other software then printing it all out to fold into a box. I already had experience w/ Photoshop for image manipulation and making posters but that project really developed me and I’m still really proud of what I made.
in terms of science i took physical sci, bio, chem 1 hon and forensic sci. chem was engaging since our teacher wanted us to succeed.
i took the two AP spanish classes in order junior and senior year. now that AP scores for this year came out literally two days ago i can say I got a 5 on both. before that i took ASL sophomore year so of the 2 needed world-lang credits to graduate i graduated with 3
i also took 6 other APs: english comp (4), english lit (4), apush (3), world history (4) and macro & microecon (3 both). for my lower AP scores ive kind of come to a mental state where im willing to retake the classes in college if I have to, since i didn’t learn very effectively and it’d be nice to have a second try at them.
like i said my highest SAT was 1380
when I previously visited the community college, faculty checked my student account and i was told that through my AP classes i have at least 16 credits already, though I don’t know if that’s only for the placeholder AA degree I selected (computer science)…
and also the cc has my hs transcript, but the credits thing was before I sent them my transcript fairly recently
still trying to figure out what visa i have
the public universities here in FL that i’m looking at are USF, FSU, UF, FIU and UCF. the CC has a guaranteed admissions program to transfer to USF smoothly but from looking at the transfer agreements page, they don’t really have anything for UF which kinda sucks for me since i’d like to transfer to UF because it’s probably the best uni in the state. however i also have to admit that my research on all these public colleges is severely lacking and i need to do more. for example i’ve gone to USF about twice for journalism competitions — i liked the campus — and i know that they could likely give me good merit aid if i apply early but that’s about it.
i guess there’s little point in being secretive about it so to be fully transparent, the cc in question is hillsborough community college.
it does indeed have a honors program, as faculty told me. they also told me apparently there’s separate scholarships for the honors program? and opportunities to travel abroad? so that sounds really fun to me.
last thing i’ll add is that in regards to bright futures, i guess i shouldn’t just throw in the towel. if i want to give it a shot though i might have to scramble to do as much community service as i can; i did community service not just with one organization, but i also did it at the school level. however, profferfish (the website we use to register our hours) only has the hours i did with that one organization (48 hours), since i don’t really know how to register those others hours i did at school and other organizations. if i register everything somehow, i believe i’d have around 60 hours total based on my own records.