I currently go to a California Community College, and am looking to transfer to FSU ( for my junior and senior year basically) after I finish my General Nursing PreReqs at the community college. So I want to go to FSU to major in Nursing. I am a low income student, below the poverty line (if thats important). I was wondering if anyone has experience in this at all. I currently have a 4.0 at my Community college Obviously I won’t be able to pay the out of state tuition can anyone help me with any knowledge in transferring to FSU from a CCC? Thanks
FSU is funded by the State of Florida and it’s taxpayers.
How will you pay the non-resident fees and out of state tuition?
If you are a 4.0 student at your CC, then you would be a competitive applicant for many Nursing programs in California along with getting the needed financial aid as a CA resident. Why FSU? Affordability will be your main factor in completing your Nursing degree.
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As a non-resident, you don’t qualify for in-state Florida funding. You stated that you are “low income at the poverty level”. The State of Florida funds and prioritizes their in-state, tax-paying residents, so you wouldn’t qualify for Florida State funding. They rely on non-resident students, like you, to pay the full fees, to help support Florida resident students.
As a transfer student, funding is even more restrictive.
You would qualify for **Federal aid/b but that’s a drop in the bucket when compared to their fees of $36,000 a year for nonresident students.
https://admissions.fsu.edu/transfer/finances/
Coming up with $25k per year is not easy for most families. As a low income student, the money would have to come from your family. You would also need to add funding for travel costs and miscellaneous expenses.
The school appears to have some OOS tuition waivers but these appear to focus on first-time freshman. As a transfer student you’re really limited on what’s available to you. Because it’s a public university they don’t have the “private” dollars needed for merit (grade-based) scholarships. If you want to go to school in Florida, you may want to try some of their private universities that might have funding. Because you’re a transfer student, transfers typically don’t get good funding and funding is always limited. Run their net price calculator’s and see what your costs would be.
If you’re doing well in a California community college you would qualify for in-state funding at any of the UC’s and CSUs via Cal Grants. We are lucky, in the State of California, that the CSU’s and the UC’s are so different and geographically diverse that each campus is unique.
Yes, it will cost less to transfer to a CSU or UC if you are a California resident.
There is also another path to consider at community college, which is to do an associates degree RN program there if you can get into it, then apply to an RN->BSN program at a CSU, which may be less competitive than regular BSN programs for admission. This also gives you the option of working as an RN after two years, in case you need to save some money to fund the next two years to a BSN.
it’s because I’m originally from Florida and have been in cali for around 2/3 years and I really it. I don’t really see myself working in California or living here in my future. But I guess there really might not be any other choice but to stay in California and become a travel nurse
Thank you a lot for that information @Aunt Bea. Its hard for me to grasp the whole financial situation stuff around universities, so thank you for explaining in a simple yet informative manner!
Since you are originally from FL, read thru https://admissions.fsu.edu/residency/ and see if you qualify for Florida residency.