@MYOS1634, that’s For CA money, not federal money. My son received a Pell Grant for this year.
Other threads say…parent earns $45,000 a year. A $30,000 a year college is NOT affordable on a $45,000 a year income.
Student is from Arkansas.
Even IF this student got a full Pell Grant, and the $5500 loan for freshman year (that IS the federally funded aid), it would NOT fund the cost of attending a UC.
He has a 29 ACT and a 3.5 GPA which likely won’t garner merit aid at the UCs either.
U New Mexico. Amigo scholarship?
https://scholarship.unm.edu/scholarships/non-resident.html
Can he work on test prep and get that ACT up over 32 and maybe get full tuition plus at some schools ?
Who is going to pay room, board, fees, health insurance? Books, expenses? That could well exceed $10,000 a year. Family income is supposedly $45,000 a year.
@thumper1, I can only go on the data presented. If the OP says $30k is their budget, then stretching to $36k with loans is not unreasonable.
That said, an EFC of zero will get an OOS student a Pell and nothing more. IF there isn’t more to the situation where they can mobilize funds that don’t impact their EFC, then no CA public would be a wise choice.
If that is indeed the case, the OP should focus on schools known to meet 100% of financial need.
As for auto-scholarship schools, a Pell would cut that $10k in half, leaving a manageable $20k debt at the end of 4 years.
One of my major frustrations about CC is when a poster poses a question and then disappears, leaving the rest of us spinning in circles conjecturing. @intparent asked a great question that has yet to be answered. Until it is, any further effort on the CC community’s part is sort of pointless.
I second @MYOS1634’s suggestion of UNC Wilmington. Probably the closest East Coast replica of a Cali school that you’re gonna get.
The student doesn’t have $30k per year to put towards college.
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He needs to go to a community college or U Arkansas university system school, tuition can then be paid with partial Pell and work earnings, maybe state aid, and loans saved until transfer to 4yr school.
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Right.
I don’t think Ark has state aid.
The OP posted this TODAY. Clearly budget is NOT $30,000 from parents anymore.
He farther says he is looking at University of Houston where the COA is UNDER $30,000 a year…and he has no way of paying for it.
Here is the more current thread…and info.
And with family income of $45,000, the EFC would,not be $0.
This student says his parents won’t pay anything for him to attend college. That being said…none of these colleges will be affordable…and cwrtoanly not at OOS costs for a student who is from Arkansas.
He says,he likes the beach.
Arkansas has some scholarships for grades and test scores.
If he wishes to go OOS with a parent who won’t pay anything, he needs to bring his scores to at least full tuition scholarship.
@thumper1, it’s not my responsibility to obsessively monitor every CC thread in order to keep up with an OP who fails to tend their original thread.
@thumper1 - “This student says his parents won’t pay anything for him to attend college. That being said…none of these colleges will be affordable…and cwrtoanly not at OOS costs for a student who is from Arkansas.”
So no students from Arkansas can afford to go OOS???
I get OP has been unclear about finances, but the above seems to imply that no student from Arkansas can afford to pay OOS tuition. Is that what you meant? Sorry - I digress…
@Hoggirl This is not the first discussion with this student. He said in another discussion that his dad earns 45k and will contribute nothing. He has been in the US for two years and would like a college location like Peru that is hot, by a city with a view of the ocean. With no family contribution, he luckily has affordable in state options. After he graduates he would be in a better position for the ocean view.
@gearmom - thanks for clarifying. But thumper’s statement seemed more generalized toward Arkansans in general. So, I kind of bristled a bit.
@Hoggirl no need to bristle!
THIS student can’t afford to go OOS. His family won’t pay anything…or so he says. My point was that he was listing schools that are NOT in Arkansas…which is where he would get instate tuition. I never said all students from Arkansas can’t go OOS. I’m talking about THIS student only.
His family income is $45,000.
And he most definitely will not be seeing need based aid from the UCs…another thread he started.
He says he wants a CA like school because he wants to be near the beach.
@thumper1 - thanks. The way you had written it - “certainly not at OOS costs for a student who is from Arkansas” just read more broadly to me. Sorry I bristled.
^his only choice if he wants to be near a beach means he needs to get sufficient stats (GPA, AP’s/Dual Enrollment, ACT score).
It’s possible, I suppose…but right now he says he has a 29 ACT, and a 3.5 GPA.
To be fair, English is his second language.