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Graduate with less debt: get a great GPA at CC and transfer to great 4-year school in Virginia via articulation agreements.
How you do in CC really is depending on the efforts you put into the classes. I am sure that all those teachers are qualify to teach!</p>
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<p>I’m afraid they weren’t all really safeties since you were only admitted to two of them. The definition of a safety is a school where you are assured acceptance and can afford to attend.</p>
<p>I agree that you should either attend a CC with an articulation agreement or take a gap year and revise your school list. I’d opt for the former.</p>
<p>Converse gave me terrible financial aid. It is a nice school but itold them i would not like to attend because of it.</p>
<p>As well as a 3-4 safeties on my list.</p>
<p>If that were true, then you’d have 3-4 schools that accepted you AND you could afford to attend because all costs would be covered.</p>
<p>In truth, you had no safeties on your list because none are affordable. </p>
<p>You really have no choice now. Your dad can’t pay, you can’t borrow, is there another CC in the area?</p>
<p>I doubt all the instructors at that CC are terrible.</p>
<p>As others have stated, a SAFETY is a school that you will be accepted at AND can afford to attend (preferably out of pocket with NOT aid). You did NOT have any safeties in your Us, which has led to this problem. Your options are to attend CC and transfer or take a gap year and then reapply, including schools known to give MERIT aid and sufficient FAid for students with your credentials. It is VERY competitve to get into med school and you will need tippy top grades to have a chance. You and your family cannot afford more debt of any type for you or your sis & your dad may need to re-evaluate and help sis figure out what to do, especially since he is no longer qualfying for loans and there will be many more years of college before you or sis get any degree.</p>
<p>If you don’t have the grades to get into your local Us, you will have to work very hard to bring your grades up in college to have any shot at med school (and good transfer options).</p>
<p>How reasonable or unreasonable loved ones and others are is not really an issue. The only thing any of us can control is what WE choose to do to reach our goals. Grumbling about unfairness or unreasonableness won’t sold a shortage of money or other resources to reach important goals.</p>
<p>Reasonable is not the issue. Willing AND able to pay is the issue, and it appears that is not the case with your father. Can’t squeeze water out of a stone. </p>
<p>Just going away to college means about $10K a year in terms of room and board that your dad can probably provide to you for just a little bit more than his regular living expenses. So that means looking for state schools within a commuting area. What your firends or anyone is saying about them is beside the point. Take the courses, get the grades and look to transfer to a state school or find something local on a 4 year basis. </p>
<p>It’s also entirely possible that college can’t happen right now. You might need to find a job and get on your own two feet financially, and take college courses, one at at a time, working full time, That’s how most people get their degrees. </p>
<p>The main thing for getting into med school, practically the only things, are the gpa and MCAT scores. So focus on them. They could not care less whether you went to that private school or your local ones. You just need to take certain courses and get the best grades, and learn the MCAT material.</p>
<p>I said I have two jobs already and have begun paying offf school already. By the time I leave for school I should have a quarter to half the amount needed for school. My sister is payin half her bill and I am paying most of mine. Hers is $800 a month and she is paying $400, while I have a $1,200 bill and have paid $400-600 of the bill already and the bill is due july 25 for the first installment. My dad hasnt even given me my tax refund money that i got back from the feds which is $800.</p>
<p>“I’m sorry but your post comes off as having been made by an entitled brat.”</p>
<p>I know this is off topic, but I’m getting really tired of people on CC misusing that word. Entitled.</p>
<p>“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it does” - Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride.</p>
<p>^^^ Languages evolve. That word is used frequently enough with the meaning everyone’s attributed to it that it has that meaning, at least colloquially.</p>
<p>Paintgirl417, you say that others say the teachers at community college “aren’t very good”, but yet, you haven’t been the strongest student either, am I right? Don’t you think that those professors would at least know more than you, and be able to offer the general education courses you need to take for most colleges? Given that you had difficulty in school, maybe attending community college, (even if it is “easy”) would be helpful to you, and you would learn whatever it is you are missing to become a stronger student. Then, when you transfer to a four year college, you will be ready for more rigorous work, and that will lead to better test scores, etc, for med school.
Your father isn’t being unreasonable; he is being realistic. He can’t grow more money on trees, or suddenly win the lottery. He has to support himself in his retirement, and is already having trouble with a poor credit rating and limitations in borrowing money. Are you going to have him live with you when he can’t afford his home, electricity, heat, and all the other things that are needed for a home?
If you did go to Cedar Crest, paid all that money, and then struggled academically, that would just be awful. Give yourself the gift of a little more time to strengthen your skills with less financial pressure on you and your dad. That would be the wisest thing you could do.</p>
<p>So, Dad has limited income and daughter wants him to support her for a pricey school because she has dreams. But, dreams are only the first step. Dreams are wishes; they should be reevaluated according to reality and in context. And, no one ever got their dreams fulfilled just by dreaming them. Follow-through matters. The people who make their dreams come true have the vision and resilience to take the knocks and convert them. They perform despite the challenges, despite not everything being easy. C’mon, it’s the age-old American success story. </p>
<p>OP tells us she doesn’t have the grades and can’t afford the price. She wants to be a pediatric whatever, but (sorry to sound like this) has not described that she understands those rigors. It’s only the dream, at this point. She is working two jobs, but won’t have the money owed. At the school she wants to attend, she likely won’t be able to continue earning from two jobs that pay what these do- so the finances will likely not get any better, only worse.</p>
<p>It is NO excuse that someone or some several she knows don’t like the local cc. That’s quitting before you start. VA has one of the most attractive guaranteed transfer programs- get a B average (3.0 or 3.3?) and move over to a top university. But, noooo, not gonna try that route. Someone told her the cc was lousy.</p>
<p>Sorry, sorry, but someone needs to wake up and smell the coffee. You can do it- or you can complain. Entitlement means thinking someone owes you- just because you think so. Give us a success story. Come back on CC in two years and let us know you took the knocks and turned them into gold- and are transferring from cc to UVA or another great college. We will be happy for you. Good luck.</p>
<p>We dont even live in our house anymore after it got foreclosed on. He pays no mortgage. We live with my grandmother. And he pays no bills on hers at all. He actually makes money from her from medicaid taking take of her. An I didnt struggle in school. I graduated with an Advanced Studies diploma with 11 honors and AP classes under my belt. My GPA was higher than my sisters when I graduated.</p>
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<p>So you are saying that you will have $3000 of the 12k that you need to make this work. Even with your $800 refund (which is only 8% of the 9600 balance that you have to come up with), you are talking about a payment plan of over 1000 a month. </p>
<p>This does not count book money, the cost of getting to school and setting up a room. It does not include the additional fees on the way off chance that you would have to do a payment plan. Once school starts, you will not be able to work 2 jobs. How are you going to make the payments to this school</p>
<p>No matter how you slice it, the fact that this school is not a financially feasible option for your family. Your father makes 40k (less after taxes), where is he going to come of with 25% of his salary (that can be used as discretionary income) to pay for this? You are going to back your self into a corner that you can’t get out of. If you can’t come up with the balance that you owe will end up not be able to get any of your money that you paid into this school refunded. If you are planning on going to med school, if you have too much debt from undergrad, you will not be able to attend med school where yor financial aid there will be in the forms of loans (you will be tapped in undergrad loans, and not credit worthy to get grad school loans).</p>
<p>If you have a balance owed to the school, you will not be in a position to transfer (yes, you will transfer as you begin to see how unaffordable this school is) because you transcripts are on hold.</p>
<p>I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you believe that community colleges in your areas are not any good, but you have no problem bankrupting your future at a school where 25% of the students do not return for year 2 and that has a 40% 4-year graduation rates (yes, the odds are not in your favor for finishing and getting a degree from this school). Save your money, go the CC route (do well, which you will have to do if med school is in your future) and take advantage of the in-state tuition at one of the many great virginia college where you can get in-state aid.</p>
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<p>OP, I am sorry for your situation. But it is your platform- you need to build your future from “what is,” not what you wish it were, today. You can spring forward, make the logical choices, in light of the advice here- or just stand there, insisting. It’s not easy. But winners don’t stop to mourn and dissect and point. They activate.</p>
<p>If you have dreams and believe in yourself, find the strength and courage to move forward, in the right way. Don’t get stuck replaying your losses.</p>
<p>What was your GPA? What were your SAT or ACT scores? Perhaps someone here can give you some suggestions of affordable schools for your stats. There just might be a good choice school out there, with the right price point, that you could apply to for next year.</p>
<p>I did NOT see some of the less competitive VA public universities on your application list. Why weren’t they there? You applied only to private universities, and none that guarantee to meet full need for ALL accepted students (Wesleyan is only doing that for limited students). None of these schools offer guaranteed merit aid either.</p>
<p>If you GPA and SAT or ACT scores are sufficiently high, you might be able to craft an affordable list for admissions in September 2014.</p>
<p>Wesleyan College, not Wesleyan University. </p>
<p>This was a terrible slate of schools. No safeties and no reason to expect any of them to be affordable.</p>
<p>Oops…well, Wesleyan College is expensive and doesn’t guarantee to meet need for anyone.</p>
<p>I do think a different list of schools would have yielded a completely different outcome.</p>
<p>My dad doesnt agree with the Community College route. He think it is petty and below standards. He doesnt want to send me somewhere where there is a high rate of not going to a 4 year institution.</p>
<p>@thumper1: From another thread in October, OP posted:</p>
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<p>If the above is true…GPA below 3.0 and ACT 21…did the student take the SAT? If not, why?</p>
<p>With these stats, I would strongly suggest the community college route. The OP needs to show a four year school that she CAN do college work, and do it well. If she can get outstanding grades at a community college, her less than stellar ACT score will not be considered when she transfers to a VA public university to complete her bachelors degree. </p>
<p>I would suggest the OP discuss this with an advisor at the community college to see which four year colleges have articulation agreements with the CC. This OP could do well, and find that she will be accepted to a fine four year school to complete her bachelors degree.</p>