hi there i found the yolasite for the automatic full rides that college confidential users compiled but the only one that i qualify for and still has openings for is prarie view a&m and since im not african american, my parents are forbidding me to go because my race isn’t really represented here. theyre allowing me to take out loans and with loans id be able to pay for the colleges i applied to but id owe 100k out of graduation. PLEASE if you can find a free ride that is still open and that id get an automatic full ride for PLEASE PLEASE tell me. Id be so grateful. i really need it. and instate public colleges, i cant consider because my parents dont like the ones there. please dont ask, i just cant go.
GPA: 3.85/4.0 or 3.91 unweighted
SAT (CR+M) = 1180, Full score is 1770
Thank you!!
From the same website, full tuition but not full ride at University of Arkansas Monticello. You really need instate options.
The automatic full ride scholarships generally require higher stats, or have earlier deadlines than March 01, or are schools that your parents don’t approve. So your best option may be to take a gap year, or else commute from home to a directional state university (or community college) to minimize costs.
$100K in undergraduate debt is far above the average. Your parents (not you) would have to take out loans that large.
Although the deadline for Arkansas-Monticello was March 01, you may have a shot if funds are still available. Call/email them a.s.a.p. to see if they’ll still accept an application. The scholarship criteria refer only to ACT (not SAT) scores, so it’s not clear if your numbers would qualify.
If your parents are not paying, why should they veto a full ride school that you are willing to attend?
Forcing you to attend a high debt school is a bad idea for both you and them (because they have to cosign, a bad idea).
Students of color go to historically white colleges and universities all of the time and thrive. Notre Dame, Washington & Lee, Vermont. Most colleges in the US are predominately white. Why don’t your parents want you being around students of color, particularly black students?
I really don’t understand how parents would rather get their child into $100,000 of debt, than go to a school with diversity.
What state are you in? Maybe there are tuition reciprocity programs that would expand your options.
Apparently, some people value their racism enough for it to be worth burdening their kid with $100,000 of debt for, or not letting their kid go to college at all (if they will not cosign most of that debt).
Since the OP lives in California, it is also odd that his/her parents consider all 32 of the in-state public universities (and presumably CC transfer paths to those universities) there unacceptable (although a small number of them are unlikely to admit the OP).
Just because you don’t qualify for a ‘full ride’ doesn’t mean you don’t qualify for merit aid. The pin with the automatic full tuition scholarships is a good place to start, but there are other schools that give aid.
You could start at a California CC or you can take a year and apply next year to some of the schools that offer very good aid. If your parents won’t ‘allow’ you to go in California, where exactly do they think you should go? If they won’t allow you to go to the schools that will give you a lot of funding, where do they think the funding should come from?
You might get some money from schools on the WUE exchange. Look at Utah, Arizona schools. California is a big place, so if they don’t want you to go to school in southern California, how about Humboldt? Practically Canada!
University of Wyoming is very good WUE value. The instate tuition is only about 3,000, so the oos tuition with WUE would be about $5000. And I think they will give you free tuition for your stats!
http://www.uwyo.edu/admissions/scholarships/non-residents/rms.html
May1 deadline.
I second UWyoming as it may be acceptable to your parents and inexpensive with wue. But apply quickly since there’s a limit to wue funds.
If you live in California, which has one of the best public university systems in the world, and your parents disagree with it, it’d be helpful for you to let us know what they object to so that we don’t suggest colleges that are impossible. Understand that without an explanation, this is puzzling.
Your best bet is a uc/csu or a gap year.
You can borrow 5.5k, so everything else they’d have to borrow for you.
Here you said that you got into two CSUs (and applied to four) and specifically that you got into Humboldt. Is there some reason that those schools are no longer acceptable? You also said that you were looking for a smaller college or university. Humboldt State has only about 8,000 undergraduate students and in state tuition of about 7,000, which seems very affordable.
You also said that your parents didn’t like the in-state options. What exactly didn’t they like? Did you apply to any schools that they approved and are willing to pay for?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1847727-i-cant-find-a-school-that-matches-me.html#latest
In previous threads you said that you’re the one who wants to go out of state and your mom thinks there’s lots of free money from the UCs. If your parents don’t want you to go to college in CA, why would they care how much free aid there is there?
You want to be a teacher, so you don’t need debt. Your parents are struggling financially, you have a sister in college and one who will go shortly after you start. It sounds like you need an affordable in state option. Are your parents able to pay for either of the 2 CA colleges that accepted you?
If you want to be a teacher, it’s best to do your teacher preparation in the state where you want to live after graduation.
If you are a California state resident, you have more financial aid options. Did you receive your financial aid packet from your schools yet?
You’ve missed the Calgrant deadlines but your high school may have sent your grades ahead to the Cal Grant program. The Cal Grant would cover your tuition and, depending on the school, some of your other costs. Check with the Cal Grant program and see if you can still send in an application. http://www.csac.ca.gov/doc.asp?ID=48
California is not going to give you any money to attend OOS. Your test scores are not high enough to give you any aid, at most colleges, except for California schools. California has a huge number of great universities, which thousands of students from other states, just HOPE to attend. They are all vastly different. The private schools are amazing, so I don’t understand how none of the instate options will work for you and your family.
If you qualify for California’s Blue and Gold or the Middle Class scholarship, attending a California university, would be affordable and doable.
I agree with all of the other posters about the loan amount. If you are going to be a teacher, assume a minimum payback of $1000 a month, just to get the ball going. I’m sure it is much more than that probably over 10+ years. Buying a car, property, new clothes will have to wait.
And for the record, students do not really receive “full rides” anymore without stellar grades/stats or being recruited for athletics.
@ucbalumnus i screwed myself over and didn’t apply to any UCs when determined to go OOS willing to take out loans. got accepted to all 4 Cal States I applied to and they think CSUs are trash