<p>I have attended a CC for two semesters while still in highschool. I've paid 100% of the costs of the credits I have taken. I have graduated high school and am looking into getting financial aid. I know that FA only covers the costs of the classes that are included under the degree that you choose. I am needing a lot more classes to satisfy the pre-reqs for a school I am wanting to transfer to but have already fulfilled the credit requirement for my degree. For example, I need Micro & Macro econ, but I only need two social science classes and have already taken classes to fill that requirement.</p>
<p>My question is, if I am granted aid, will they look at the credits I already have? Or will they look at it like I've taken no classes at all. I'm new to the entire aid thing so I'm sorry if I'm not making much sense!</p>
<p>I don't understand your question.</p>
<p>Are you continuing at the community college now, but you could have your AA degree by this time based on the credits you earned while still a high school student? I think you would be better off talking to the financial aid office at the CC. They can tell you if there are any issues with you applying for aid, but since you don't have a BA at this point, I don't think there would be.</p>
<p>Aid will be based upon your class standing at the new college. If they accept enough transfer credits for you to be a junior, then you are given aid based upon being a junior.</p>
<p>A lot of schools will still consider you a freshman not a transfer student for merit and need based aid if all your credit hours were taken concurrently while you were in high school. This can be a good thing, especially from the point of view of merit aid which is usually much more generous for freshmen than for transfers. The credits are generally added after you have completed a semester full time in college, then your status would change. One thing we were warned about was that if a student had a lot of credit hours taken during high school, and did CC classes the summer between graduating HS and starting college full time then the credit hours would be added to the summer classes and would then change the student to a transfer student which would mean the loss of any freshman scholarships that had been awarded (this would have meant the loss of several thousand dollars a year to my daughter).</p>
<p>You need to check with the schools you are going to to see what their rules are. The not counting of hours taken during HS until after a semester is pretty common but may not be the same everywhere, so check. You may find you are required to apply as a freshman (which could be a good thing financially) rather than as a transfer. Though it seems a bit late to be applying for fall 2009? Probably too late for merit aid at many schools.</p>