<p>According to the website, there are only 2 universities that offer aeronautical engineering as a major and have WUE available for transfer students, New Mexico State and Utah State. Their costs are low.</p>
<p>Instate Utah State’s tuition and fees for next year is about $3K/semester so a full year of that at 150% is only $9K plus room and board. </p>
<p>[Tuition</a> and Payment Overview - Registrar’s Office - <a href=“http://www.usu.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.usu.edu](<a href=“Page Not Found | Utah State University”>Tuition & Payment | Utah State University | USU)</a></p>
<p>New Mexico’s tuition and fees are about the same: </p>
<p>[NMSU</a> Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012: TUITION, FEES AND OTHER EXPENSES](<a href=“http://catalog.nmsu.edu/undergrad-2011-2012/01-general/tuition_fees-expenses.html]NMSU”>http://catalog.nmsu.edu/undergrad-2011-2012/01-general/tuition_fees-expenses.html)</p>
<p>As a transfer student, that’s unlikely. Most WUE schools, being generally the smaller public schools in each state, do not give significant merit aid to begin with. Transfer merit aid is, unfortunately, even harder to find.</p>
<p>Might not need much if any at all. If dad is willing to give $20K and student takes out loans, this student might be able to meet the costs of either of those schools without working nearly as many hours-- which might be important for an engineering major.</p>
<p>Why borrow a bunch of money to move to Logan, Utah or Las Cruces, N.M. if he can commute to a nearby California public and keep his current job? He’s going to have to pay for plane tickets back and forth, moving costs, etc.</p>
<p>Of course this is all speculative because OP hasn’t said whether he’s in commuting distance or not.</p>
<p>I understand the OOS/WUE urge - I did it myself, transferred to the U of Idaho from a Bay Area community college. But I had parents who were willing and able to pay for all that stuff I mentioned above. Home for the holidays? My mom bought the tickets. Someone without that help will find it harder.</p>
<p>I was figuring OP wasn’t commuting distance because he said $20K wasn’t enough. </p>
<p>If he has to keep that job, it may be pretty hard to get through engineering school ft.</p>
<p>I am in commuting distance to CSLB , UCLA, USC, and CSUN. A friend of mine living in the same area commutes to Pomona but that seems kind of far to me. I will be sure to look in to the WUE programs though. Thank you for that idea!</p>
<p>I also wanted to ask, but have you ever heard of an out of state school changing a students residency to make it affordable? Someone told me that schools will do that (such as Penn State), but I do not know anyone myself where that has happened. If Purdue were to change my residency status to in-state, it would be cheaper than a california school roughly speaking.</p>
<p>No. Doesn’t happen. It’s a myth, a pipe dream and not worth pursuing.</p>
<p>The point of in-state vs. out-of-state is that state residents have paid taxes to support the school. You and your family haven’t paid taxes in Indiana and thus haven’t paid into the Indiana public universities. Conversely, you have paid taxes in California and gain the benefit of in-state tuition there.</p>
<p>To claim in-state at Purdue, you would have to move to Indiana, live there for a full year without going to school, get a job, rent an apartment, register your car, pay taxes and THEN apply. Even with all that, you may have to find ways to prove that you’re not getting anything from your parents.</p>
<p>“To make it affordable” not exactly, however, I’ve heard of a few states where students who earn merit money are given instate tuition. I think this is true of Univ of South Carolina and Texas state schools. I don’t know if it applies to transfer students. Call them and ask questions. </p>
<p>One other thing I want to make clear to you: there is a difference between qualifying for instate tuition based on residency and being independent for financial aid. Public schools handle residency in different ways and there are even schools within a state that will give instate residency more easily than other schools. For example, I believe there’s a poster here who said that her local cc will give internationals instate residency after just a few months-- but that doesn’t mean that the state flagship-- and especially a prestigious school (like Purdue engineering) will give it. </p>
<p>In general, since you are an adult, you could move to a state, get a job, live there for some time (probably a year) and you may qualify for instate rates. However, you would have to move there for a purpose other than going to school which means that you probably can’t take classes for at least a year. They may want to see other proof that you’ve moved such as getting a car registered in the new state, knowing that most of your belongings are in the new state, asking where you are registered to vote. I tell you this because moving can be expensive. The big catch to this is that you will have to show them that you are doing all this and will live there without money from your parents or outside the state. (I know someone who was required to show bank account statements of student and parent to prove student was self-supporting.) So if you were to move to a state, live there for over a year and support yourself, you couldn’t then take dad’s $ to pay for tuition and you will still have to fill out FAFSA with your parent’s information.</p>
<p>When you turn 24yo, you will automatically be considered independent for financial aid purposes.</p>
<p>By the way, I want to explain things to you so you understand that you ARE an adult and you DO have options. The truth is that your original post was a bit deceptive. Your father is willing to give you $40K for your last two years of school and you will soon have your first two years completed. However, you come off as complaining that that’s not enough. $40K is a LOT of money and enough for you to get your degree. Lots and lots of kids don’t go to Purdue because the oos costs are so high. Trust me, I looked into it a few years ago for one of my kids. However, there are choices for you to make. Another choice is to look at North Carolina AT&T. It’s a historically black college in North Carolina and the oos costs aren’t that high. I think for $25K (which you could pay for with your dad’s $, summer job and student loan), you could live on campus and complete your degree in an ABET accredited program.</p>
<p>Oh, one other thing. When my kid was looking at aeronautical engineering, we were told that a lot of people do mechanical as an undergrad and then specialize in aeronautical in grad school. You may want to see if that track opens up more instate options for you.</p>
<p>I didn’t read the OP as “$20k per year” - rather, $20k total for both years of college.</p>
<p>What a day! I have practically been on the phone with purdue the entire day talking to them, trying to figure out something that I can do. I spoke to someone from the office of the registrar from Purdue and they told me that if I mom were to be transferred to Indiana, and she could establish residence before the first day of school, I could receive in state tuition. Believe it or not, it is actually possible for my mom to transfer to a job in Indiana for me. If she were to move there for her job, she would NOT have to live there for an entire year.</p>
<p>2collegewego: In my original post, I did not mean that my dad is giving me $20k PER year. Rather, that is how much he is giving me for the total of four years that I am in college. $20k for 4 years is not a lot of money to go to college. Regardless, I will still need loans to pay for my education. Also, if you don’t mind me asking, where did your kid end up going and did they take on a large amount of debt? Also, did they end up majoring in mechanical engineering instead of Aeronautical engineering? I have heard from multiple people that I should major in mechanical and go to grad school for aerospace, but I honestly never wanted to. But if it were to help me get into college, it is a switch that I will have to make.</p>
<p>I also spoke to a counselor from my community college today and they told me that ASU has a program that if you have a college GPA over 3.6 I believe (mine is 3.9), then you automatically receive $9,000 as a transfer merit scholarship, and the tuition becomes as much as a Cal State. The counselor also told me about the Presidential scholarships that CSDH and CSLB offer, which covers everything, so if I have to, I can try for that.</p>
<p>Purdue has been a dream of mine to go to ever since I have been little, so I really don’t want to let go of this. =/ It looks like I have to though unfortunately.</p>
<p>Ah, sorry I misunderstood. My kid ended up not going into engineering. Had kiddo decided to go into engineering, it would have been at our state flagship with moderate loans. At this point, that kid will probably go out-of-state for a different major and, unfortunately, incur greater loans but I do have money saved up and kiddo has been awarded some scholarship money. </p>
<p>In the interest of full disclosure, I have several kids and they’ve all made different decisions regarding college. One has worked on and off. Another won a national scholarship. I have helped them to the best of my ability but I don’t have deep pockets. </p>
<p>Conventional wisdom on cc is that there’s little money for transfer students but I know that some state schools seem to have funds specifically set aside for transfer scholarships. You have an excellent gpa. I really hope you are able to find some places that will ‘reward’ that with merit money.</p>