Is it hard/good to get into good colleges as freshman or as transfer student from community college?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Actually my dad is a fast food worker. and my mom doesnt work. so we are economically weak. but my dad assured that if i want to go to four year college as freshman then he will get the money however he can (specially loan). but what do you think? is it good to go to four year college as tranfer student or freshman? and which one will be harder to get into? my target is UC Berkeley, Caltech, also MIT (Bt tht would be dream for me for my economy).</p>

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<p>You have to do the work; your grades have to be top notch to even be considered for those schools and it doesn’t matter if its transfer or freshman gradewise and gpa wise because you have to have the stats. Freshman qualify for more financial aid. Transfers don’t. Your father probably can’t get enough loans to pay for those schools, so it would be completely up to you to quality for need based aid and merit aid if you can get the right scores and grades.</p>

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This right here is reason enough to start college as a Freshman. Even if you’ve taken a lot of college classes, or maybe gotten an Associates Degree, you should definitely take advantage of the financial aid opportunities available to you. If you were well off, it wouldn’t make much of a difference, but for your situations especially, go in as a Freshman. </p>

<p>Also, I think it would be a lot more impressive to go into college as a Freshman with college level classes. If you go in as a transfer, well, you won’t stand out much. </p>

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<p>I think that’s terrible advice for the vast majority of students. In my area, it’s far cheaper for students to start at a community college and then transfer to a directional state school. Sure there are some students (a tiny minority) who will find it cheaper to start at a four year school, but that’s not the case for most.</p>

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<p>Since you are low income, you will receive a good chunk of grants, if you are admitted to these top schools. I expect these schools to cover the tuition for you, if not more. If you are from California, you would definitely qualify for Cal Grant A and most likely B. </p>