<p>So, what options do you have that are affordable?</p>
<p>It doesn’t look like Kelley is affordable because, at most, you might be able to cobble together about $20k in scholarships…but that won’t even be enough for tuition, much less room, board, and books. You don’t qualify for any federal loans.</p>
<p>Do you qualify for Bright Futures in your state?</p>
<p>Go to a community college in FL for your freshman year…and transfer to UF after that (and once you have your green card). The cost of attending the community college will be less than the four year schools you have listed. Is there ANY way you could continue to live at home just for the year?</p>
<p>What is your financial situation? What can you afford right now? You mention FSU as an option, but you don’t seem to like the idea, which puzzles me. Are they giving you a merit award or financial aid that makes it affordable? You indicate that living at home is not a good option. That means coming up with room and board as well as the tuition. Are you eligible for the Bright Futures awards as an international student? I am assuming that you are getting in state rates in Florida even though you are not a citizen,nor do you have a green card. That occurs here in NY too, if you can prove you have been here for 3 years. </p>
<p>My opinion is that FSU is a perfectly fine school. If your appeal from UF comes through and if you get enough merit money from the other schools, they are also contenders, but I truly feel you have a good choice with FSU. My parents lived in FL for some years, and my brothers both went to school in FL, and I really don’t understand why you nose is out of joint about the prospect of going there, especially if you can swing living on campus there.</p>
<p>Forgot to mention that being in Hudson Holland and Kelley at the same time will also get you an automatic one thousand dollar scholarship per year from Kelley for four years if you maintain a 3.3 gpa. Kelley is ranked sixth in the country for accounting. </p>
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<p>As a high achieving Hispanic accounting major, no matter which school you choose you will have Big Four recruiters begging you to come to their firm. I know of a Hispanic accounting major in the business honors program at Kelley who had a Big Four full-time summer internship at 20+ dollars per hour after his freshman year that will be renewed each summer, and who also works for the firm in recruiting at Bloomington during the year. Your stats are really very good, and I am sure comparable to his. That is a pretty good chunk of money to apply to your education, and I bet you could achieve that wherever you go to school (but moreso in the Mid-West, where Hispanic professionals are still a relative rarity) and agree that UF or FSU would be fine, but NOT at a community college, as Big Four companies are concerned about prestige too much to recruit cc’s. The Big Four is active in recruiting URMs, and they have offices throughout the country. Of course, your immigration status could have a big negative effect on your ability to work for a Big Four accounting firm.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>True…but with a COA that approaches $40k per year (especially over the next few years), possibly getting $20-22k in merit is still not going to be enough for an int’l student. He can’t take out a student loan, and he may also have work/income limitations based on his visa.</p>
<p>My opinion is that FSU is a perfectly fine school.</p>
<p>Absolutely. Students have to keep in mind that at large state schools there are lots of very smart students…especially in several majors. you can’t just look at the SAT spread of a state school and conclude that the classmates in your major will be like that. </p>
<p>What has FSU offered you? Will you get Bright Futures?</p>
<p>I guess my question is, “What makes FSU so undesirable to the OP?”</p>
<p>^^^^ The OP has good profile and feels that he/she has worked at it hard and deserves a better ranked school. Hence FSU appears to be “I had no other choice…”</p>
<p>I am not going to say that the feeling is wrong, but the fact of the matter is when you are an international student (even if you live in the US), you have to play by different rules. That may not be what OP wants to hear, but OP can take a gap year and try again. Hopefully by that time his parents can also fill out FAFSA.</p>
<p>From what the OP has written, and I do agree with him, there is no guarantee that the green card would be here next year either. I just don’t see the problem of going to FSU. Yes, I can see why someone with his stats may not want to go a community college or other school that does not have the full campus life and the advanced level courses that a school like FSU would have. But FSU is a fine school. An accounting degree from there would well prepare him for the CPA exam and he would be just fine for getting a job. Also the campus is certainly the envy of many flagship schools. It is not a suitcase college at all with plenty of on campus life and opportunities. And to be affordable to boot is terrific.</p>
<p>Around here, the state schools that would be possible in a case like this would be the CUNYs which are commuter schools. Not suitcase, but commuter without the facilities of a full university. FSU looks mighty good to me.</p>