Hi! I decided to attend Valencia Community College in Orlando. Starting this spring, and my major would be computer science. I am a freshman here.
I graduated highschool with IB and AP credits, got accepted to UCF,USF,Stetson, pretty much wherever I applied,but I decided that going to Valencia would be cheaper, and I received full scholarship into their honors program.
Two years from now (or maybe even less because of all my credits) I want to apply to a top tier school, out of state and transfer. Assuming I keep my gpa a 3.7+, and graduate with an honors diploma what are my chances?
So far, I’ll be a junior front end developer at age 18 my fall semester(taking off) because I was accepted into a coding boot camp(The Iron Yard) with full scholarship. (14k)I can probably get good internships in companies, or even jobs if I want to for that extra experience.
What colleges do you think would be good for me to apply to, in order to have full financial aid met (With scholarships/Grants as a transfer student?)
These are colleges I’m looking at, but if there are good colleges that are still with good reputation a little less selective please do recommend them for meeting financial aid!
Rice University
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Emory**
Cornell
University of Miami
U Michigan
University of Tampa
Any help of CC transfers, or anyone would be greatly appreciated.
A lot of schools don’t give any need-based financial aid to transfer students. The only aid transfer students really get is merit-aid, but you’re not going to get that from a top school.
This is not true for many of the schools on OP’s list. I know both Michigan and Cornell offer transfer students financial aid similar to any other student. Some scholarships may only be available to freshmen, but that does not rule out other forms of financial aid, including scholarships for transfers.
OP- your best bet is to look at the financial aid info on each of these schools’ websites. All this information is available to you.
Actually, transfer financial aid is not as transparent as for freshmen. (and you know how transparent it is for freshmen.) Generally speaking, because transfers don’t ‘count’ for rankings or federal methodology, colleges treat them last in awarding money and have little incentive in attracting them with scholarships.
The expectation when you attend community college is that you’ll transfer to your state 's public universities. UF would likely be the cheapest for you (both UF and FSU would be better than UTampa.) Everything else will be a challenge not just for acceptance but for financial aid.
Since you got a full scholarship at Valencia, you could borrow your federal loans and save them for later. This way you’d have extra money in addition to the developer job. Save your Pell grants in your bank account, except what you need to use for food and books.
If your major is CS, I’d aim high for HYPS, add UF and FSU, then complete with colleges known for CS such as Northeastern, Case Western, and strong universities/LACs that meet 100% need (Cornell works but it doesn’t meet need for transfers and they give priority to nys cc transfers).
I’m kind of confused with the last paragraph there, I get to aim for HYPS but after that did you mean if that didn’t work out to finish up my bachelors in UF or FSU? I’m confused with the orders you stated things could you clarify please? Thank you!
When applying to selective colleges, you have to have a tiered list: first, find two or more “safeties”, two colleges where you’re sure you will get in and will be able to afford; then a group of colleges where your odds are good; and finally colleges where your ods are, logically, very low.
So, for you, it means you’d apply in the same cycle to several from each line:
USF, NCF, Missouri Rolla, UNC Asheville, UMN Morris ← choose 3, including USF?
UF, U Puget Sound, Illinois Institute of Technology, Marist, Trinity TX <— choose 2, including UF?
Case Western, Northeastern*, Vassar, Bucknell, St Olaf, Hamilton, Macalester, Grinnell <— choose 5?
HYPSM, Cornell, etc.
= not sure about financial aid being sufficient (it means you probably need more colleges than most since sufficient FA is uncertain except at the very top were admissions are roughly 1%)
Nacac has a form for transfers to get application fee waivers and with EFC 0 you qualify for the “check” on the “qualifies for a fee waiver” from your counselor/adviser in CommonApp. https://www.nacacfairs.org/learn/apply/transfer-fee-waiver/
Yeah I already got into UCF and USF as a freshman in college so that’s not a problem and I’d be able to fully afford it with my bright futures scholarship (FAS) and financial aid. And woah!! Thanks so much I didn’t know about the transfer fee waivers. My main concern is just if I transferred to a higher tier college if I would be able to get it covered because I know at certain top institutions if your family income is below a certain level they’ll meet all need.