<p>*NO, I don’t think I should be handed scholarship money, I’m just saying if I start school in the august, will testing in SEPTEMBER really help as far as scholarship money?</p>
<p>and how am I going to pay for transfering to 40 grand/year schools? To get where I want to get I’m going to need to get a good internship and good connections, but how am I going to afford that 40 grand/year? *</p>
<p>Yes, if you start studying NOW, you can improve your scores for the Sept, Oct, and Nov test dates. </p>
<p>I think the ACT is in mid Sept…you have nearly 2 months to practice for that. The SAT is in October. </p>
<p>*What about if I go 2 years then transfer? It’s a good school I’m going to already (although not well known) but I can afford it, and I can gain more merits and EC’s *</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Are you already out of high school? I thought you were a rising senior?</p>
<p>Anyway…the problem you’ll face is this…even with great grades your first 2 years of college, a top school is going to be “needs based” and your parents won’t pay.</p>
<p>The merit scholarships that Entomom may be referring to can be nice, but not enough to fund a $55k per year school. You may get $10k per year, but how would you pay the other $45k?</p>
<p>Please clarify.</p>
<p>What year are you in school NOW?</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>
<p>What state schools can you commute to?</p>
<p>I’m in Indiana.</p>
<p>I’m going to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)</p>
<p>Could go to IU Kelley at worst, or IU in general.</p>
<p>Oh…I thought you were a rising senior.</p>
<p>OK…well retesting won’t do any good now unless you decide to do a gap year.</p>
<p>How would you pay for IU-Kelley? Can you commute to that?</p>
<p>Thanks, Erin’s Dad, saved me the trouble of making the exact same post.</p>
<p>I’m reminded of the story Lincoln is said to have told about the hen being the wisest animal in the barnyard because she doesn’t cackle until the egg is laid.</p>
<p>Cspangle, IPFW is not a well respected school. Especially not if you are using your academic record there trying to get into the likes of UChicago and Berkeley, which would cost you 50K a year to attend if by some near miracle you got accepted into them after a year at IPFW. Even Kelley will not accept credit from IPFW for most business classes. </p>
<p>But you can take enough classes at IPFW that will transfer to Kelley and then take IU and Kelley classes for only one semester in Bloomington and find out immediately after that semester whether you are accepted to Kelley. Getting a solid B or higher in every class you take the two semesters at IPFW and one semester in Bloomington will guarantee you acceptance to Kelley. </p>
<p>Kelley is top ten in the country in accounting and finance, and you “Could go to IU Kelley at worst?” You have no money, mediocre high school grades, and only slightly above average SAT scores-- yet you poo-hoo a top ten business school that, after attending IPFW for a year, would cost you less than 10K to discover if you can get accepted to and only 20K a year to attend for three years in favor of extreme reaches for high school students with your academic track record, extremely expensive schools like UChicago and Berkeley?</p>
<p>Do a year at IPFW, taking the pre-business major courses I outlined to you in another thread and then apply to IU, UChicago, Cal, Harvard, etc. and see which ones you get accepted to. If you can’t get all B’s at IPFW when you apply to IU, then forget about Kelley; and if you can’t get a 3.9-4.0 cumulative gpa while having boatloads of extra-curriculars, then forget about the others that you feel so strongly that you are destined to get into.</p>