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<p>A student contribution of $4,600 will typically need either a federal direct loan or a typically expected amount of student work earnings. A student contribution of $9,600 will typically need both a federal direct loan and a typically expected amount of student work earnings. For UCs, if you are not a California resident, the $23,000 additional out-of-state tuition in addition to the student contribution of $8,500 to $10,000 (i.e. total of $31,500 to $33,000) will be unaffordable to you. It would be very unwise to take that much debt, if you can even get that amount of loans. If you apply to the UCs, you would be applying for the rare merit scholarships that do cover the additional out-of-state tuition – a much higher threshold than merely admission.</p>
<p>What other majors are you considering besides CS? CS is often one of the more popular majors, but some other majors like math tend not to be especially difficult to switch into.</p>
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There comes a point when you realize you are talking to someone who has already made up their mind and is not really interested in thinking about it anymore[ul][<em>]You can only take out around $6K per year in loans on your own, which will leave you around $75K short of paying for a UC school[</em>]You talk about over $100K in debt as if its no big deal[/ul]Well, good luck to you</p>
<p>Thanks and just to clarify I am a resident of CA and from experiences in my school many UC schools cover he full costs either through financial aid or in most cases scholarships. </p>
<p>@mikemac haha yes I guess it seem like I have made up my mind. In reality the only advice I wanted on here was the major part. I am a CA resident and have visited UCLA UCB UCR and UCI and have talked financial aid to all of them plus I have talked to my counselor about UC school(which is pretty much what they know. Like seriously they preach the stuff) and don’t want any extraneous advice on financial aid on this forum. I have had some friends older than me accepted to schools like UCR and UCI with SATs and GPAs significantly lower than mine with scholarships and full financial aid so I don’t want to worry about that. Also right now I rather apply to all the schools I can financial aid or not just for the safety. I have seen many apply to schools like the ivies which cover all costs and have gotten rejected to every one. Left with no option they have had to go to a CC. I don’t want that to happen to me so I rather apply to all these schools, which are all non-binding, then make financial aid decisions after I see which ones I have gotten accepted to, if any. I rather get accepted to some schools that don’t offer good FA than no schools that all accept financial aid. My only problem as of this second is picking a major while I can pick financial aid packages later on in the year. Hope you get what I’m saying. </p>
<p>@ucbalumnus if I knew of any other majors I wanted then I wouldn’t have made this forum lol. Again those are my likely choices but I know my tastes will probably change in college and would like the option to freely change my major without falling behind until junior year (hence my obsession with Stanford)</p>
<p>Even if there are no administrative barriers to changing majors, junior year may be too late to change into some majors that have long prerequisite sequences. So if any majors with long prerequisite sequences are under consideration, you need to get started on their prerequisites early.</p>
<p>Yes of course (I’ve heard engineering has long pre reqs) and I will probably pick a major by sophomore year but I’d like to have the choice. And the students I’ve talked to at Stanford told me this too but they al said that they haven’t picked their major yet going into sophomore year and aren’t worried because Stanford makes it really easy to take a lot of classes on the quarter system and there’s always summer school( a full quarter too that you can take abroad as most do). Not as easy of course but it gives you a chance to really experiment with your UG years. 50% of UGs at Stanford are undeclared (according to their booklet). That’s basically all their freshman and sophomores </p>
<p>I didn’t realize you are a CA resident. So depending on your income it may be well affordable, sorry to have missed that, but it would be really dumb to take out huge loans when you have many choices in CA. Apply widely in the UC system. I’ve been wondering how UC Riverside students are doing with med school admissions with their healthcare advising program and new med school (you finish at UCLA.) I would take a look because it may well be easier to get attention and to be at the top of the class. </p>
<p>Also your parents would have to take any additional loans as you are limited to 27k for your undergrad career. </p>
<p>I already told you in my post that for Brown and Chi you just apply to the university/college. Also H, Y, P.</p>
<p>Yea sorry I didn’t clarify that sooner. What other choices are you talking about it Cali that are good schools and have financial aid beside UCs (like I said our teaches live,eat and breathe UCs haha). Thanks</p>
<p>CSUs have decent financial aid for California residents (more so for those who do the cheaper commuting option to a nearby CSU), but only the least selective ones with few or no impacted majors should be expected to be easy to change major in (i.e. changing major at CPSLO or SJSU may be somewhat difficult to change into most or all majors, but CSUDH, CSUEB, CSULA, etc. should not be difficult to change into most majors).</p>
<p>For other safety schools, you may want to look at this list: <a href=“http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/”>http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/</a></p>