So, unlike most of you out there, I was rejected from all the schools I applied to and the one I did get into is super expensive.
My first choice school is USC and since my mother works there I get free tuition. My problem is that they rejected me and now I’m stuck applying to schools while most people are filtering through their acceptances and figuring out where they want to go. I know that I’m going to apply to transfer to USC (they even encouraged me to on my rejection letter) but I need to find a school to tie me over until then.<br>
I’ve applied to the University of La Verne because they are still accepting applications while space permits. I’ve also looked into Azusa Pacific University because they are still accepting applications.
My question for all of you is how easy is it to get into a school that has had an application deadline but is still accepting applications? My stats greatly surpass those of their average but is that enough. Has anyone out there applied to a school after their prefered deadline?
Please let me know because at this point I’m desperate.
<p>Dont worry about it - we are both in the exact same situation. Wanna go work at McDonalds with me? After 20 years or so, we may even get promoted to manager and make $30000 a year! Joy!</p>
<p>Would you like fries with that?</p>
<p>What I would do:</p>
<p>Make a list of colleges and call the admissions offices and ask if they are accepting late applications.</p>
<p>Run a collegeboard.com search with the box checked for schools where application deadlines have not passed.</p>
<p>Try to get this year's data at this site if it's available. This is the link to last year's data that I copied from a thread in the parents forum entitled 'we're picking up the pieces..." - which has a lot of good advice. <a href="http://www.nacac.com/survey/results.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nacac.com/survey/results.cfm</a> edit - 2005 results will be online May 9.</p>
<p>Since you know you are going to transfer, consider a good community college.
I don't know how that works in CA but here in NJ some are better than others but you have to pay more if you live outside the location county.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>"I was rejected from all the schools I applied to and the one I did get into is super expensive." A contradictory statement. You did get into at least one school. What you can do is scrape up money by working your tail off and borrowing and go to the one school, take a gap year, find a school still taking kids and apply or look at some comm colleges with a good feed to the UCs.</p>
<p><<"I was rejected from all the schools I applied to and the one I did get into is super expensive." A contradictory statement.>></p>
<p>I didn't have any trouble understanding what she meant.</p>
<p>anarchy24-omg, if you ever talk like that agian i'll have to slap you! thats scary!!!
mcdeb1958-omg, thats great stuff. thanks! (lol, thanks. i didn't know i had to write a page long explainations of what i meant)
jamimom-what i meant was basically i have no options open to me since i either didn't get in or the school is too expensive. lol. i didn't know i would be critisized here</p>
<p>Not so much critisizing as pointing out that there is a difference between not getting into any of your colleges, and not liking the college acceptances or not being able to afford your choices. Depending on the gap between cost and resources, there may be things you can do to scrape up the money. If you are rejected everywhere, a post mortem of what went wrong with you app process is in order. </p>
<p>Hopefully, you find the alternative that best fits you. My son's best friend went just for a semester at NYU, and then took a leave to make money. He has been working 90 hours a week since mid December and will continue to do so through August and then will take as many courses as he can at NYU next year. He will then pick up any lower level credits at a comm colleg and work, taking another gap year, and then try to do two more years at NYU to get his degree. He could have transferred to a less expensive local state school, but NYU is what he wants and he is willing to do anything he can to get through. In addition to all that time and work, he will have a lot of loans. If you give some more info, I can try to give some other alternatives but they are along the theme of what I suggested above. What can you afford? What kind of profile do you have? What kind of school do you want?</p>
<p>i really don't want to have to pay thousands of dollars more for a school that will generally do the same thing and that is: get me into USC. either way, I'm transfering to USC after my freshmen year so why would i work at getting money for a school that i don't want to go to.<br>
Taking time off of school is not an option for me. I'm not saying anything is wrong with doing it, i'd just really rather finish school as soon as possible and find a career.
I can afford, well, community college lol, but i am willing to take out loans for a year. preferably a school, less than 20k/year would be nice but i'll take what i can get.</p>
<p>Kali, the reason I asked about your contradictory statement is that I have heard variations on this theme so much. Very few people, none that I personally know, were rejected from all of their schools. They just do not like any of the choices they have, and in your case it looks like it comes down to one school, USC. So the real question is what you can do to make yourself the most attractive applicant to USC for next year. I suggest you go over your app with your GC and maybe ask for input from USC as well. In my opinion a well spent gap year is the best way to get into a selective school where you match the stats but did not get in. Something that brings out more of your interests and passions. Transferring is a tricky thing, and I would check out what USC's numbers are for transfers. They may not be that great.</p>
<p>You can try some of the California community colleges. I heard the decent ones offer a very nice education and has extremely nice transfer rates. There are two particular community colleges (one in NorCal and one in SoCal I think) that are pretty much feeding grounds for UC and CSU transfers. I would say that if you manage to get a 4.0GPA (in challenging courses!) at a good community college and maintain your current list of ECs, you would have a very nice chance at USC again in one or two years.
And also, community colleges are NOT just for people who get rejected everywhere else. Community colleges are often used as places where poor students are able to afford an education before moving to a 4-year school. If you do plan to skip a year (working, volunteering, etc) before applying to USC again, it would not hurt to take a few night classes at a community college to show them that you are still involved in your education.</p>