<p>What are some ways to pay for college without financial aid or loans... do you know of any scholarships that are still taking applications?</p>
<p>Also I am a transfer student</p>
<p>Not really. Most scholarships are awarded by colleges themselves and tend to be for freshmen rather than transfer. Other scholarships are hard/impossible to get, only last a year and are worth a tiny fraction of actual costs. Most students net more money in a part-time job than they win in equal time invested in applying for scholarships.</p>
<p>Worse, most colleges will subtract any outside scholarship winnings from any institutional grants/scholarships, so the student doesn’t make a dent on their own expected cash and loans outlay.</p>
<p>Make sure you have a cash, work and loan plan that works, because you can’t assume or reasonably hope for the scholarship fairy to meet the gap. </p>
<p>What schools are you looking at? What can you afford? What is your line in terms of total debt you don’t want to go above?</p>
<p>I am transferring to Santa Clara University, my dad is willing to help out and can cover most of the cost, and I’ve been looking for a part time job for the past month (hopefully I’ll find something soon and have some money saved up). Though, santa clara is pretty damn expensive and it’d be nice if I could get some scholarship or something to cover even a fraction of the cost ie maybe something like 10,000 a yr. Just because my parents are getting pretty old and have other plans with there money so it’d be nice to take of some of the burden off.</p>