Desperate for advice-should I switch or try to scrape up a degree fast?

Paying for College
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<p>I'm a transfer student at my current school. I came in with 44 credits (12 from my first semester) and the rest were from IB/AP classes in high school. I started out as a biology major going for pre-med, but I couldn't get through the chemistry classes and soon I switched to poli sci, thinking I wanted to be a lawyer. I have come to find out that I absolutely hate poli sci and I don't want to go to law school. I miss my science classes. So I was contemplating switching to speech pathology until today. I went to meet with a fin aid adviser and I have come to find out that I only have 34 more credits before I will be cut off from financial aid, even though I transferred as a freshman. I am paying for college entirely by myself; my parents MAKE NO contribution to my education, except by allowing me to stay at their house. I pay for everything else, my car/insurance, gas, food, etc. I am devastated because I can't complete my speech pathology degree in 34 credit hours. I could appeal at the end of the period I am given for financial aid, but there's no guarantee I would be able to get the money. I am trying to figure out how I can graduate, the only possible thing I can think of is a psychology BS because I already have the science/math elective credits and some pre reqs completed. What should I do? </p>

<p>This is completely unfair, FIN AID never paid for the credits I received in high school. If I started as a normal freshman, I wouldn't graduate until 2012 would get 180 hours. I have to graduate fall 2011 and I have 90 hours to complete my degree total. The problem is most of my credits are for EXTRA gen eds that I didn't need in the first place and I didn't have any classes in my major except bio pre-reqs when I transferred. In addition, my academic advisers advised me to transfer EVERYTHING. How was I supposed to know that was a bad idea if I changed my major?</p>

<p>How am I supposed to get great letters of rec for grad school if I only have 2 semesters left? I don't know any psych professors at all :[ Any advice?</p>

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<p>Just get whatever major you can before the money runs out.</p>

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<p>Go for what you want. If you get a degree in something you don’t love, you will probably get a job in that field, and you don’t want to hate your job for the next 40 years.</p>

<p>If those financial aid extensions aren’t made for someone in your situation then I don’t know why they have them at all. You sound like a classic case of someone who should get the extra aid.</p>

<p>Just submit a passionate letter that is wholly true, and hopefully they will see your side. How much more aid would you need past 34 credits? Maybe 20 more credits at the most? Get private loans if you must. That’s 1 1/3 more semesters.</p>

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<p>Speech pathology is usually extremely difficult to transfer into as program size is limited. Also, you would have to have a grad degree to become licensed and competition for spots there will be intense too. How is your gpa so far? How much debt do you have so far? Instead of randomly selecting new majors, have you considered taking a semester off to work, shadow, and really think about what you’d like to major in?</p>

<p>I don’t understand the part about the aid being cut off sooner because you’re a transfer student. It was my impression that federal aid was available up to 150% of the credits normally required, so 180 credit hours. It seems very odd that a different rule would apply to transfer students, unless these grants are coming from institutional funds. Have you verified the information you were given?</p>

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<p>howabout getting a tutor for the chem?</p>