Financial safety colleges?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I need a list of financial safety colleges in Texas. My EFC is $0
Everyone tells me I need a list of these and I have no idea where to start. Are any of these a financial safety school? </p>

<p>univ. of houston
univ. of Dallas
UT Austin
UT Dallas<br>
UTSA<br>
Texas State- san marcus
Baylor
UT Arlington</p>

<p>These are the only schools I am willing to attend so i hope so. :)</p>

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<p>Good places to start.</p>

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<p>You must be from a really low income family, so you ought to be eligible for a lot of need-based aid. That means that your in-state universities should be affordable for you. You should be eligible for Pell grants as well as other programs. At private universities, such as Baylor, you will also be eligible for need-based aid and may be eligible for merit aid, too. However, few private schools can afford to take in everybody who needs a lot of aid. Most of them pick and choose and take a few. However, that could be you, so go ahead and apply.</p>

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<p>If you have high stats, private schools will typically be a much better deal, especially the better ones that meet need with no or capped loans. Most state schools have high loans in the packages but I don’t know Texas. Your schools could be doable but saddle you with large loans.</p>

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<p>Why are you limited to those colleges? With the exception of UT-Austin, they aren’t very selective schools, and you’ve posted that you’re likely to be in the top 10% of your class. If your SAT or ACT is commensurate with your grades, you should be in at all but Austin, and with top 10% you may be in there too. Many of the more selective private colleges have the higher endowments, and greater resources with which to offer generous financial aid. You’ll need at least one or two financial safeties on your application list, but you may want to cast a broader net with the rest of your applications.</p>

<p>BTW, in-state tuition at public colleges and universities in TX is relatively inexpensive, even before financial aid.</p>

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<p>The OP doesn’t have any ACT or SAT scores yet, so it’s unknown how she will do on them. She has about a 3.3 GPA at some kind of non-traditional public school (it sounds like it might be a school for students that have fallen behind credits-wise or something like that).</p>

<p>the problem is that it’s unlikely that the OP will have the stats to get accepted at a full-need school.</p>

<p>Therefore, a financial safety for her will be…</p>

<p>A public U that she can commute to and pay for with Pell and any other state/fed help.</p>

<p>A community college that she could commute to. </p>

<p>Does anyone know how much aid (if any) the state of Texas provides for low income college students?</p>