You are excluding schools because they are too far, too cold, too snowy, too expensive, you don’t have someone to room with (many places near schools allow you to just rent one room, like a dorm arrangement).
If you keep rejecting every suggestion, you won’t have any school to go to. No school is going to be perfect and free.
Many kids have no help from their GC. We’re trying to help but you are rejecting every suggestion without even looking into them.
You have a 3.85 GPA and a 1060 SAT. The chances of getting enough aid to go OOS aren’t great. You have to line up affordable options then choose from among them. I was a low income student. It stinks, but sometimes our choices come down to basic math. If your family can’t/won’t pay and you don’t qualify for merit aid, you have to make other choices if you want a degree.
You need to retake the SAT and try the ACT. Ideally you would have true professional help with your anxiety. This is just a band aid possibility but I’m very scared of heights. We went west for a big family ski vacation and I downloaded a self help hypnosis tape (for the UK actually) to help high anxiety skiers. It helped with visualization and breathing/relaxation techniques. It really helped me and was only $15.
I was more inclined to sympathize with the test anxiety until I read all the OP other excuses in this thread.
SERIOUSLY? It took me all of two seconds on my IPad.
http://www.lcc.edu/studentlife/housing/
I don’t think you are ready to go to any kind of school because nothing works for you. It seems to me that you believe that you are **entitled to something OOS, fully funded, and near-ivy caliber.
No, that only works for people like neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quinones. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/05/143141876/illegal-farm-worker-becomes-brain-surgeon
See he picked tomatoes, corn and broccoli then
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He didn’t have any exceptional skills except picking crops, and went from a CC to Berkeley, to Harvard Med School.
People who see the glass as half empty, get a half empty life.
The people on this thread are trying to give you some valuable advice, which you have rejected at each turn. I also believe your counselor could not help you.
If you are not willing to accept suggestions, why bother to post?
No one can give you what you want because you don’t have the scores nor the money.
What’s your Plan B if you can’t find a school that meets all your requirements?
Just as an fyi, the op and I live close to each other. We do NOT get lake effect snow. MSU doesn’t get it either in the middle of the state.
My GC was about as useful as thhe OP’s. I absolutely believe that’s what the GC said.
The app to tech is free so at least apply and see what happens.
Can you participate in the Running Start Program your senior year?
@gearmom as far as I can tell, only one college in Michigan offers Running Start- and it isn’t one with a campus near the OP.
OP definitely research this though and see if you can find something
I think that’s the point that we’re at now: The OP needs to do some research and find schools which meet his/her requirements. There have been LOTS of suggestions made. I would suggest that the OP look seriously into each of them, even those that don’t seem like an automatic yes. Do the research, take emotion out of the picture, and look at the suggestions that have been made up to this point.
OP could also take a live away work option such as being a nanny for a year or two and build up a cash reserve.
OT. Can I suggest the OP start a new thread in the parent forum on how to deal with getting help with her anxiety. I suspect that raising her SAT/ACT scores will be difficult if she is fighting an panic attack (based on what she wrote) at the same time.
While living in a toxic environment and going to CC is far from ideal, can you make it work? You have up to this point. Is it possible just to come home to sleep and spend your awake hours out of the house? I suspect there are many student here that have spent very little time at home due to school and job commitments.
If Op truly suffers from anxiety (right now she is self diagnosing perhaps correctly but still self diagnosing), Op needs to get a diagnosis in order to get help from the school. Then Op should take the accommodation to school and and request a 504. Op also has the option of having mom request an initial evaluation for an IEP if she thinks one is needed.
She is not going to get anything simply based on her saying that she has anxiety. No diagnosis, not help (including extended time on tests/assignments).
ROTC is NOT a financial aid program! It is for students whose #1 goal in life is to serve their country as an officer.
@“Iron Maiden” Army engineering would have fit her goals but she has health issues.
@gearmom I’ve seen it dozens of times. If the students #1 goal is to be an officer then they have a chance of getting a scholarship and making through the program and getting a commission. If they want be an “engineer” and use ROTC for the $ they get weeded out very quickly. Then they have no scholarship and no way to finish school. Officer first, major second. Her goal is to be an engineer. Not an officer. So no fit even if there were not health issues.
My DS ROTC class started with 24. 3 received commissions. All 3 wanted to serve more than anything else.
It’s just a hot button issue for me when a student is looking for scholarship $ and someone says ROTC. not what it is for. And ROTC scholarships these days are some of the most competitive in the country.
@“Iron Maiden” Well it can sure bit you in the butt. As classmate of ours was and told everyone they should join. East money. Then the first Gulf War. He came back a different guy.
Don’t have much sympathy there. The first thing you are told is that you WILL be put in harm’s way. My DS certainly has.
But my point is that when kids are talked into going ROTC for the $ they inevitably drop out. Then they are left with a bill from the school they can’t pay, lost the ability to get aid only available to Freshman,and can’t go to another cheaper school because the first school won’t release their transcript until the bill is paid.
And that is the best case scenario. If the student drops ROTC after signing their contract they either 1) have to pay every cent back or 2) immediately start serving a period of years as enlisted personnel. Their branch of the service determines which. Not the student.
If they are made to pay back the $ the government is extremely aggressive about getting paid. And they still can’t finish school due to $.
ROTC is a wonderful program for creating officers that want to serve their country. But it is not a means to pay for college.
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Thank you, @“iron maiden”. My brother was career Air Force and says the same thing. The military is not a scholarship service.
OP, can you get enough money together to pay for a cc with the idea of getting a shared apartment soon? Wanting to live away from home doesn’t mean you have to go far.
Amen to everything IM said. ROTC is a wonderful program for certain people- not those who are just looking for scholarship money!
OP, I hope you come back with any sort of update. You can always take classes at OCC or WCCC (I can’t remember where exactly you are) and transfer to one of the state schools for your last 2 years.