You are a senior NOW? When do you plan to start attending college.
@thumper1, yes. Plan to attend college in fall 2019.
@GuessME5 So you are planning to take a gap year next year and work?
Utah looks at student residency rather than parent residency to determine in state tuition rates. There are also a lot of year round resorts that offer dorms to workers. If you are interested in moving to the US and working during your gap year consider Utah. https://www.coolworks.com/utah-jobs The state has a lot of National parks and is a beautiful part of the country. 12 months in Utah (a driver’s license/state id, a job, intent to stay, etc) and they will consider you in state.
@gearmom, no. In India the academic year begins in Feb/March and ends in April the following year. So I’ll graduate in April 2019 from HS and join college in fall 2019 (I’ll have to send my apps this year end). I already took a gap year between my 11th and 12th grade.
@BuckeyeMWDSG, thank you for the info. Utah’s a great state. Both University of Utah and Utah State University are offering awesome financial aid including merit scholarship for my stats, almost a full tuition. So that shouldn’t be a problem.
@GuessME5 You need to apply early not by the end of the year. Make sure that you hit the early date for UChicago if you want that one.
@gearmom, sure. I actually wanted to mean in the 2nd half if the year. I didn’t convey that properly. Thank you so much. I’m going to apply Early Decision I (Application Deadline :Nov 1) for UChicago, I really hope that boosts my chances.
Can somebody give me a review of Troy University Alabama, Southeast Missouri State University and Hampton University? How’s their finance major program? I couldn’t find many reviews or discussions on those colleges, so my initial judgement is that they’re bad. I’d be getting a full ride at both schools and it kinda feels awesome to travel back to US after a long time and pursue undergraduate studies with a full ride given the new life, but at the same time, I’m looking for reputed, challenging and great programs at great schools that shouldn’t be a shame to put down in a resume. Also should be acceptable by a top 10 grad school.
They are schools known in their regions. Not bad.
My advise is to worry about graduate school in a few years. You can’t go to grad school if you don’t go to undergrad, and you have to make your undergrad choice based on what you can afford. YOU can make Troy or Hampton a good school for YOU by getting involved in research, working with professors (who will be writing your LORs), taking challenging classes and getting good grades.
SEMO has a solid finance program. Accredited. I don’t know much about other areas.
If you are looking at Missouri look at Truman University. That’s where the smart kids go in Missouri and everyone there is practically on a scholarship. It’s cheaper than Mizzou and at least regionally you can get good internships and jobs. Their finance department is very good and very rigorous.
A lot of great schools which I potentially could have gotten into have to be strike off my list just because they require the NCP info on the CSS Profile. My NCP paid $28,000 in child custody since 2004 (he actually started paying in 2010 and that too irregularly) till 2016, translating to $180/month against what he should have paid had we sued - $1750/month. I lived with him just for 7 months after I was born. He met me only twice - in 2007 and 2016. Though he never told me his address (I actually found out a week ago through people search), he was in contact till January this year - email and calls - nothing productive - just whining over family issues. He also never paid for any of my medical issues nor participated in parent - teacher meetings. He never bothered to ask me what my hobbies are, my favorite things, my ambition, how I’m doing in school, my grades, my health.
I’m very confident that he won’t fill out the CSS NCP info form or participate in my college career after he sharply told me last year that he wanted me to suffer in every way because I supported my mom. He also told me not to contact him again as it is causing disturbances in his remarried life.
So with all this, I’m also very sure that schools won’t accept my NCP waiver request regardless of how many powerful letters I can procure from a dozen people. Is there any way to get around this? What if I report that I don’t know where NCP is, what his contact details are, etc? How do schools verify whether I know where he is and whether I communicated with him? They certainly wouldn’t track all this, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong. Wish if they considered this as special case. But then as everybody says - all NCPs would do the same.
Lot of great schools have to be striken off - University of Southern California (my favorite), NYU (love this), Cornell (another favorite), Tulane, WUSTL (this one too), Brandeis, Lehigh, Villanova, Oberlin, Fordham (amazing), University of Rochester and many others.
You have a whole list of schools you do like, that are FAFSA only. Concentrate on them
Those schools aren’t meets needs schools (or at least all of them). If he did fill out the NCP forms, and they showed he has the means to pay, those schools might become unaffordable to you. I think you have a better chance asking for the waiver.
He was never ordered to pay that. From what you wrote above, he paid what he was ordered to pay, more than $50/mo Courts do not go back and award child support based on a new income (another guess on your part) unless the other party requests a reconsideration. My BIL paid $400/mo from when his son was 2 until he was 21. His ex-wife never asked for an increase (and her income had gone up too). A court is not going to go back and redo the orders without a request and the OP’s mother never made the request.
@GuessME5 You are being overly dramatic about the great schools. The majority of these schools were NOT going to give your whopping aid. You need to be realistic and focus on schools you can attend. You can always go to grad school at your dream school.
@twoinanddone, okay, let’s leave the child support issue aside, it’s no longer valid now as I’ve turned 18 and mom didn’t fight back for reconsideration. You said that I’ve got a better chance asking for a waiver. But from what I’ve read through other threads - basically for a waiver, you shouldn’t have been in contact with him and not aware of his location and provide supporting letters from relevant people. Personally, I’ve got to know them & as mentioned above, he did contact me. But what happens if I put down on the NCP waiver form like this - I don’t know his contact details, he never bothered to ask me about myself, my health, education, ambition, hobby, school, never attended parent teacher meetings (a letter from counselor), I don’t know his location, etc. & attach the letters? Will I get the waiver then? I don’t think they would verify my psychology or mind whether I know that info or not, isn’t it? Can I manipulate like this? My NCP is so careless about me that he doesn’t even know which grade of school I’m in. And he also doesn’t know that I have undergrad plans in a US school.
@twoinanddone, @gearmom, I’ve finally made a list of 28 schools, majority of which are FAFSA only and a couple of them require CSS but not NCP info. Some of them have great aid and scholarships. I’d really appreciate if you could check them out and further advise me. Now 28 schools is something I can’t afford the app fee and other fee associated like sending SAT scores, etc. So I want to shorten it further but it’s difficult for me now, as I already come down from 68. @thumper1, @FourYearsornot, @Otterma, @NEPatsGirl - what do you think of this list? Here’s the list -
Intended major - Finance/Economics
University of Chicago
Vanderbilt University
Miami University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Arizona (huge FA)
University of Utah (full ride)
University of Alabama, Huntsville (full ride)
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of Mississippi
University of Arkansas
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
University of Tulsa
Stony Brook University
University of South Carolina
University of Pittsburgh
St. Lawrence University
Mississippi State University
University of Toledo (full ride)
University of San Diego
UT Dallas (kinda full ride)
UT Austin (love the BHP program here)
UT Tyler (Full Ride, father’s Alma mater)
Texas A&M
University of Dallas
Trinity University
Southwestern University
University of Houston
I wasn’t too impressed with Truman State University and Southeast Missouri State University so I dropped them off my list. I’m skeptical of UToledo too, as it seems the academic quality is poor. Which ones should I strike off and are there any other schools that I can add? I’m looking for -
- Urban setting
- Solid reputation
- Rigorous Finance program, accredited
- Excellent internship and placement opportunities
- Study abroad program
- Medium to small classes
- Not necessarily but better if CFA partnered like Pittsburgh.
- Not focused about partying, Greek life and heavy sport schools. Want 24/7 academics and also great chess club.
- Good, clean and safe dorms. Low campus crime rates.
@GuessME5 dump University of San Diego. Waste of an app fee. Financial aid award will be nowhere near what you need
@CopperlineX2, done. Thanks!
Dropped University of Toledo from the list. 27 left. Any chance at Rutgers, Ohio State and Stevens Institute (Ann. P. Neupauer Scholarship)?