Hi fellow confidentials!
I am currently rather late in the process of applying to universities as I will apply for the Spring semester of 2017. I am currently enrolled at Santa Barbara City College, and will not fulfill my Associate’s Degree prior to transfer. My problem is that I have a very vague picture of which schools to apply to as I cannot afford anything over $20k. Therefore, I would be infinitely in debt of you knowledgeful people out there if I could be given advice on my current list, and on other schools not included!
Scholarly information about me:
3.94 Community College GPA (unfortunately dropped from 4.0).
ECs (rather vague):
1 semester as a student ambassador at the college.
Attends community events around Santa Barbara
Operates an e-commerce website with a 10% stake (should I include this in the application?)
Honors Club at SBCC, as well as another club that is not of such importance
Very few hours worked volunteered at Habitat For Humanity
As for my current university list, I based it upon my financial position as I do not want to graduate with a bachelor with 80k+ as I am an international student. Note: I haven’t applied to any of these yet as I am so uncertain!
Columbia University
D’youville College
Lally
Skidmore
Upenn
Saint John’s University
Georgetown University business
University of Richmond
Saint Anselm College
Rice University
Dartmouth
Scranton university
University of Chicago
I beg pardon if the post lacked information as it is my first post on this forum!
Once again, I would be forever thankful for any advice, input, or criticism!
Are you applying as a transfer into undergraduate program in business?
Check your list carefully to see that the programs have undergraduate arms and aren’t grad schools. I think that Chicago, Columbia U the B programs are graduate schools (and expensive). Just go through your list carefully and make sure that you are looking at undergraduate programs.
I’ve heard good things about Saint John’s U in Minnesota for Business. Is that the St. John’s that you mean? There’s also one in Queens NY that is a solid school – http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/programs-and-majors
Skidmore tends to offer good FA and it looks like it includes liberal arts. If you were my child I’d look at that school more closely. Liberal arts will teach you to think well / problem solve in addition to B school skills.
But just be aware that a lot of schools use their business programs to raise money for the school–or at least they aren’t necessarily as generous with FA. I wouldn’t be surprised if the business programs offer lower FA than other programs.
Transfers get very little for aid. For instance the cost of Scranton U is almost $60K/year. You need to look at your in-state options.
Forgot to mention that - I will apply as a transfer into undergraduate.
Thanks for the input.
The fact that transfers offers less financial aid, I wonder if anyone is aware of a competent school with rather generous financial aid?
Thanks in advance.
I would suggest you contact SBCC about their articulation agreements. SBCC has agreements with 6 UCs as well as a number of in state and out of state schools. The advantages are auto admit and all your courses transfer.
Good luck!
You said you’re international - do you have CA residency?
@funfatdaddy
What do you mean to contact the UCs? My problem is the tuition fees, I do not believe it’s my chances of acceptance that is the largest problem, or what do you think?
@philbegas
Unfortunately I am not…
Thanks for the input so far!
@MartinBuzz…I am suggesting you contact SBCC, your current school about their various articulation agreements. They may be able to offer insight into schools that fit your needs and will accept all your credits. For example, Penn is on your list, however Wharton does not accept community college credit.
Adding more time to any school will add to its cost.
Good luck with your search.
I think your best option given your financial constraints is a local city college that might be aligned with your CC. Room and Board alone is like $15K a year. that only leaves $5k for tuition. Not many colleges are that low other than city schools.
As was mentioned, transfers don’t get a huge amount of aid. Realistically, you are looking at schools with a full cost to attend of under $25K. Hopefully you can snag $5k in aid. You did not indicate whether you would qualify for full need based aid. I am guessing not.