Get your degree low cost, as @Auntbea notes above, the pay for a career in Social Work is simply atrocious - and you’ll need a masters to get many of those jobs. This is simply a bad plan and you’ll find yourself broke at 25 with no way out.
It is fine to dream, apply to a number of CA privates including USD, LMU in so cal and St Marys and UOP in N Cal. Maybe one or more of them will make you an offer you can’t refuse.
If you are passionate about the career, go to your local CC, then a local state school for your BA/BS. Get a job and move to CA in a few years. Establish your residency and go to a CA public for grad school.
You might also want to look at UNR - very close to CA but, much more reasonable OOS premium.
One more comment about CSULB from a local. CSULB does not just as accept locals first but they activity recruit from LBUSD. Student who graduate from any LBUSD school are guaranteed admission from CSULB with minimal requirements. In a 2013 publication they stated that CSULB had an 80% acceptance rate from LBUSD students and a 20% acceptance rate outside of Long Beach. It is very selective if you are not a local.
@auntbea I want an MSW, I know it’s almost impossible to get a job with a bachelor’s. I know that isn’t a great salary, but many social workers say they “don’t do it for the money”. I’m going to get married, eventually, so it’s not like I’ll be raising a family on that salary alone.
@NCalRent The numbers I’m getting for privates are so much higher than Cal States, though…do most people pay much lower than their estimated net price? I’d rather stay in NYC than go to Nevada, though.
@LKnomad Thank you.
IS CSUDH good college?
I am eligible to get PRESIDENTIAL Scholarship but I am an International student.
Do they give PRESIDENTIAL Scholarship to International students?
@sld1234 It says here, you have to be a CA resident. Sorry!
http://www.fullerton.edu/scholars/apply/eligibility.asp
Grad school costs money; @NCalRent is noting reality for you as well. You will pay a fortune to go to school in California for a low-paying wage, if available, which you will not receive until you have had ~7 years of schooling.
Depending on your loans, interest begins to accrue immediately or 6 months from your Bachelors graduation date. There is no waiting or grace period.
Do you plan to have a husband at 22 and have him pay for all of your loans at 22? Then, he’ll have to fund graduate school as well? Most young people out of school, don’t really want family financial obligations especially repaying large loans for someone else.
We have one young lady doing her MSW hours at my facility who owes $250K in school loans. She got married, but her husband was laid off. So she is living with her parents in one bedroom with her husband and they can’t afford to pay her parents any rent. Her brother is living in another bedroom with his children. She can file bankruptcy, but the school loans are not included in bankruptcy, so she still has to repay $250K in loans from her private school.
When you do the clinical practicum training for the MSW required hours, you are paying grad school tuition and you are not allowed to get paid; it’s a conflict of interest, so you are working MSW hours for free. There are no significant scholarships (Maybe $500 at most which barely pays your utilities for a month).
Most of our MSW student clinicians work restaurant jobs on the weekends because they have to work full-time on their hours for the MSW during the week. They are overworked, tired and broke; most of these people are residents not paying OOS tuition. The sad part is that they initially thought that $30hr was a lot. Assume more like $15 per hour after taxes and required retirement and medical expenses.
During my grad school at SDSU, I worked at the school of Social Work. There were so many students in debt who needed counseling and would seek out the professors for advice.
You appear to have an answer for everything and it’s sad that you are not seriously considering the fact that this is a bad plan.
You hope to
- get into a Cal State with that non-competitive GPA,
-pay significant OOS fees by asking your parent to take out loans for you (you can only take out $5500 for freshman year; the rest is on your family),
-go into a non-lucrative and saturated field,
-seek out a sugar Daddy to pay your expenses,
-go into significant debt,
all because you don’t like New Jersey. Really bad plan.
@SId1234: make your own thread. Dominguez Hills is a commuter college.
@auntbea I never said I was going to have a sugar daddy!!! Now you’re just making assumptions. I’m hoping to get married at no earlier than twenty-four, to someone I love, and know well! I’m not marrying a random rich man. My parent is OFFERING to take out loans for me, because the only low-cost school with the degree I want in New Jersey is terrible, and a two-year college. The rest are around the same as Cal State’s OOS! If I could find a decent affordable school in NJ, I would happily consider it, but there’s none!
A MSW takes five or six years, at 30K, that’s a total of 150k. I’m realizing I could save a lot by renting an apartment with one or two other college girls, as many students do. With no residency costs, my tuition would only be 19,630. At that tuition, it would only be about 98-100k total, nowhere near 250K. I would never put myself in so much debt. Even though these are very high numbers, I found another school in CA that’s much cheaper, even for OOS (see my new thread).