<p>My dream school is UCSB but I highly doubt I'm going to get in, so I'm planning on transferring from SBCC. However, I live in NorCal and I'd have to dorm there, so my parents aren't thrilled about spending money to house me at a community college, and would rather I just go to a CC in our area. I want to go to SBCC because I really want to go to SoCal, and if I stayed at home then I wouldn't get the full college experience of moving out and having fun with roommates etc. SBCC also dorms at Isla Vista, which are the same dorms as UCSB, so even though I wouldn't be attending UCSB it'd be a very similar social experience. And I really need to be by the beach. But all my experience and social reasons for why I want to attend SBCC aren't good enough for my parents, they need actual statistics/why going there would be better than our own CCs. Can you help me convince my parents to let me go to SBCC?</p>
<p>Yeah - Your parents are being reasonable and I wouldn’t pay for it either. From my perspective as a parent, I wouldn’t pay $30k for you to have fun and live the UCSB life when you didn’t perform well enough to get in straight out of high school. I’d imagine you’d get side-tracked again and not meet the tough transfer standard either. I’d ask you to prove your academic commitment at a local school and pay only when you’d earned your way - but, I’m kinda closed minded in that way. </p>
<p>I suppose you could offer to cover most or all the room and board. </p>
<p>I’d guess you are a junior now, I’d encourage you to apply broadly. There are lots of schools in California that will suit your academic needs and stats.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>AS a parent, I would not pay either, unless you were able to come up with cost for a dorm or rental. Our oldest son wanted to go to a CC out of our area, so I told him that we would continue to pay his tuition, fees, books, and even food (since we would pay for that if he had lived at home). He had to come up with his own living expenses for housing. I never thought he would do it, but he surprised us and did it. He found housing, got a job and went to school and paid for the housing. He eventually transferred to a 4-year at which point we paid for his housing. </p>
<p>SBCC does act as a feeder school for UCSB, so if you can complete the program there, I believe there is a transfer aggreement with UCSB so that you are pretty much guaranteed admission. </p>
<p>It is costly I guess…I am agree with Ncalrent reply. As it is very strict school with costly fees. Mangoway I wish you go with Ncarlrent suggestion.</p>