<p>I am currently student at Texas southern university, I want to take some classes at a community college
My question is: Can I get the Financial Aid at university and colleges at the same time and, at a different semester?</p>
<p>You cannot get financial aid at two places at the same time.</p>
<p>To be eligible for financial aid at the community college,you must be enrolled there as a degree seeking student. If you transfer there, you may be able to get aid there. But you cannot get aid there and at the university at the same time.</p>
<p>best plan is to withdraw from the TSUniversity at the end of your next semester, apply to the community college, take the class that you want, and then withdraw and apply as a trnasfer student to get back into TSU. It’ll be time consuming but kids do that some times if they need certain # of credits to graduate and the CC is cheaper!</p>
<p>Axand…what are you talking about?</p>
<p>If this student is receiving any kind of scholarship from his current university, he runs the risk of LOSING it altogether if he withdraws. And transfer students do NOT usually get great aid.</p>
<p>I’m curious WHY this student wants to take courses at the community college. The very first thing he needs to find out is IF these courses will be able to be applied to his degree program. Some colleges will just say NO to this plan.</p>
<p>I would suggest this student figure out where he wants to go to college. He would best be served by finishing a degree at ONE place.</p>
<p>That’s true, withdrawing and reapplying as transfer would be a problematic scenario if she is drawing from a scholarship. It would NOT be my first choice. I as assuming that she was a senior who needed a few extra credit hours to graduate this Spring and thought it would be easier to do them online at a CC or something!</p>
<p>Axand238…CC courses tend to be lower level courses and are not likely what a college senior would be taking. And like I said…if the courses are to satisfy a degree requirement, the current college would have to APPROVE that they will apply these courses to this student’s degree program…regardless of how she pays.</p>
<p>I think there is some confusion here based on my poor use of language! </p>
<p>In my experiment (and correct me if I’m wrong here!) many colleges require a certain number of general education or general requirements for all graduates!! These are usually lower level courses that everyone has to take at some point, often 100- or 200-level courses!! These courses can often be taken at a community college and the credit for taking them be transferred over at lower cost to the four-year university for where main matriculation is taking place. </p>
<p>My understanding here is that the student wants to take some of these lower level courses at a cheaper rate at a community college, potentially over the summer. I am basing this understanding on the fact htat she was asking about getting financial aid at the CC for a different semester (possibly summer semester) than the semester she is actually in the university! a lot of people do this to save money and time since the lower level general courses are of no importance as far as major requirements go and they can be taken anywhere, and she can free up her schedule during fall and Spring since the courses will be taken during off season?</p>
<p>I realize that I am making assumptions here but i don’t think these assumptions are crazy or weird…</p>
<p>Axand…if this OP is looking for summer financial aid, she is likely out of luck most everywhere.</p>
<p>And again…many colleges do NOT allow transfer courses of any kind once you have matriculated there. And for those that do, the colleges almost always need to approve this prior to your enrollment. In addition, at some places, once you are a senior, you cannot transfer courses in.</p>
<p>The OP has not clarified the situation. I politely asked WHY this student wants to take courses at the community college…and no response has been given. Until one is, it’s all guessing!</p>