Confused About Cost

Paying for College
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<p>The last recorded national average 6 year graduation rate is about 55%.</p>

<p>[Six-Year</a> Graduation Rate for Bachelor?s Degrees | The College Completion Agenda](<a href=“College Board Foundation | Home”>College Board Foundation | Home)</p>

<p>If you went to UIC, you would know that UIC has a higher than average graduation rate. When I was at UIC, graduation rate improvement was a big deal. One of the major issues UIC was having in improving it was due to the transfer rate out of the school. In my experience, of the students leaving in good standing, a number of students use UIC as a way to get into UIUC. UIC students are given priority at UIUC for transferring purposes. Some realize they don’t like the commuter school experience. Others want a school which will hold your hand more.
For sake of statistics, those students are considered to be drop-outs. I know someone who worked at a community college and he said the same thing happened to them. They would get a number of students who would attend for <2 years, and not get an associates. They transferred into a 4 year school, and later graduated with a bachelors. But per their statistics, they are drop-outs.
UIC’s graduation rate has made significant improvement in the past decade. They are proud of their achievement.</p>

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<p>UIC has a higher than average graduation rate when its average is 54% and the national average is 55%? </p>

<p>So the graduation rate is held down because people transfer out. That is not exactly a recommendation for the school. </p>

<p>As I said, UIC is not a bad school; but the OP can do better. Like UIUC. </p>

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<p>I live in the suburbs. That school is also in the suburbs, but it’s just outside the city, which is what I like- suburban and urban at the same time.
UIUC is in the middle of a very rural area… not where I wanna spend the next 4 years of my life.</p>

<p>**Suburbs being right outside of Chicago</p>

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<p>Also, what is SUNY? Are those NY state universities? Sorry I’m midwestern, I’m not familiar with the east.</p>

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<p>I was wondering if I didn’t claim my daughter as a dependent on my taxes if she would be able to do the FASFA based up just her income. She is offered less of a college loan due to our income. Our income looks higher but it actually isn’t due to debt and medical bills. Trying to find a way for our daughter to get a loan on her own since our credit is bad due to medical situation a job change. Our credit isn’t good enough to cosign for her</p>

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<p>Yes, SUNY is State University of NY…there are a lot of them, including Binghamton, Buffalo, Stony Brook (Long Island), and Albany. If you’re interested in SUNY schools, suggest you start at suny.edu and do a program/location search.</p>

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<p>Are there any other state schools that are under 33-34k a year?
33,000 is still better than 59,000 for a private school…</p>

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<p>momof31966, You should probably start your own thread but if you daughter is under 24yo, hasn’t been in the military, is single and has no children, schools will ask for your financial information whether or not she’s a dependant on your taxes. Tax rules and financial aid rules are two very different things.</p>

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<p>Recent post
*3.74 UW
4.29 W</p>

<p>Ranked 52/677 W (top 7%) and 62/677 UW (top 9%)</p>

<p>SAT: N/A
ACT: 30 (Best scores: 32 E, 29 M, 32 R, 27 S)
SAT 2: 740 USH
670 M1
AP: USH (5) Psychology (4) Eng Lang (3)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: All AP, including Bio and Chem</p>

<p>My EC’s are too many to list, but I’ve been in 6 clubs at school, Captain in my Academic Bowl Team, am very involved in my scout troop, am an Eagle Scout, and am in the scouting honor society as well as two honor societies at school.</p>

<p>I’m applying to
UIC, Ohio Northern, and Ohio State
UW-Madison, UIUC, Dayton U
and reaches are Northwestern, Brown, and Dartmouth
SO… What are my chances? *</p>

<p>Is an ACT 31 a superscore?</p>

<p>An ACT 31 is probably not high enough for a merit scholarship at schools that are on your list since it sounds like they are ranked similar or higher than UIUC.</p>

<p>What is your major? If it’s a hard science/engineering or similarly challenging major, then likely your classmates are going to largely coming from the upper quartile of the school. It can be a mistake to look at the middle quartiles when determining who will be one’s classmates when in a challenging major. Top stats kids are not typically equally spread out amongst all majors. These top kids tend to be found largely concentrated in about 10 majors…not spread out equally amongst the 70-100+ majors a large university might offer.</p>

<p>There are mid-tier schools that will give an ACT 31 a good sized scholarship.</p>

<p>Are you going to test again? Will you take the SAT as well?</p>

<p>Momof31966…it won’t matter if you claim your D or not. If she’s single, under 24, etc, you have to use your income. She can still get the full student loan that she’d entitled to and use it towards EFC. And, if you apply for a Plus loan and get denied, she could get $4k more. If she’s an incoming frosh, then that would be 9500 total.</p>

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<p>NO…your daughter’s tax filing status has nothing to do with her status as a dependent student for financial aid purposes. Unless she has a bachelors degree, is an orphan, is a ward of the state, is married, has a dependent who SHE supports financially, is over age 24, or is a veteran of the armed forces…she will be considered YOUR dependent for financial aid purposes.</p>

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<p>And in a metropolitan area with a population of over 200,000. Chicago it’s not, but neither is it Mayberry.</p>

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<p>You want suburban? Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville is in the metropolitan St. Louis area. Tuition+fees+room+meals was about $16,100 in-state for 2010-2011 (undoubtedly a little higher now). </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.siue.edu/financialaid/pdf/Cost_of_Attendance.pdf[/url]”>http://www.siue.edu/financialaid/pdf/Cost_of_Attendance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Add books, incidentals, transportation, etc.</p>

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<p>I’m not going to retest. My parents said I shouldn’t bother paying for another test when I won’t get the scores until two weeks before deadlines.
Also they said I can’t go to UAlabama, but they’d let me move to RI to go to Brown if that worked out…? It doesn’t make too much sense to me either…
But, they did say if i got one of the scholarships at Dayton that they would pay for almost everything else as long as the scholarship brought the cost down. (Dayton sent me a letter promising 4000 dollars for me to spend on textbooks over the net four year).</p>

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<p>Since you’re so worried about the environment in which your college is located, I’d strongly suggest visiting both Dayton and Providence before deciding that’s where you want to spend four years.</p>

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<p>I’m working on it. Dayton I’m planning to visit in the fall… But Brown I won’t visit unless I get in first. The Northeast is kinda far just to go look at a school I might not get into.
Ohio on the other hand is only 4-5 hours away.</p>

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<p>You have the option of attending a wonderful IS university. (My H and I both graduated from UIUC many years ago and have done well). Don’t get caught up in the ‘I rather go to an OOS school so I don’t see people from my high school even if it means I will go to a lesser school’ syndrome. When I attended, I only ran into people that I went to high school with a handful of times over the course of four years. If you are considering majoring in engineering or business, it is a solid choice.</p>

<p>Another public university that has a relatively low tuition cost is Virginia Tech.</p>

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<p>My second choice (UW-Madison) is actually ranked higher than UIUC.
But thank you for the VT suggestion, I’ll look into it.</p>

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<p>By who? For what?</p>