<p>Transfer student with one semester of community college: 3.0 GPA, 26 ACT, one good recommendation letter, two good essays, good outside/extra-curricular activities. </p>
<p>Seeking late deadline or rolling admissions school with an engineering major that would likely accept me for fall 2013. Preferably a liberal environment school or located in a liberal city/town.</p>
<p>Rejected from a private reach school and waiting to hear back from a private safety school. Regrettably did not look at public schools and most of their deadlines have now passed.</p>
<p>You might check out RIT. They kept sending my kid “not too late to apply!” mail and emails well into the summer last year. </p>
<p>[Timelines</a> & Requirements for Transfer Applicants](<a href=“http://www.rit.edu/emcs/admissions/apply/transfer/requirements]Timelines”>http://www.rit.edu/emcs/admissions/apply/transfer/requirements)</p>
<p>Check out the NACAC Spaces Available list, which lists schools who are still accepting applications, even though their normal deadlines are past. The list indicates whether freshman or transfer applications are available.</p>
<p>[Space</a> Availability Survey Results 2013](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/research/research-data/SpaceSurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx]Space”>http://www.nacacnet.org/research/research-data/SpaceSurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx)</p>
<p>I just browsed through the list. Drexel has a very good engineering school, but it is a reach for your stats. Missouri U. of Science Technology is strong in engineering. Maybe IIT (Illinois), U. of Kansas. </p>
<p>Is there a particular region of the country you are interested in?</p>
<p>As an engineering major, you might not be able to get the classes you need for fall semester this late into the game.</p>
<p>Arizona State has more liberal students (including a very large contingent from California) and good engineering. </p>
<p>Other schools you might be interested which match your stated criteria and are still accepting transfers include:
-Colorado State
-Hofstra
-Kettering
-Loyola Marymount
-Marquette
-Montana State
-NYU Poly
-St. Louis University
-U Kansas (moderate students)</p>
<p>Thank you for that list. No particular region-just nowhere in the South, I suppose.</p>
<p>How/in what order would you rank the following schools? Have never heard of any of them, except for ASU. Also read that Purdue U has a July 1 deadline and an engineering major. Can’t exactly afford to apply and send transcripts and scores to more than three schools, and don’t want to attend a school nobody has ever heard of/not that well known.</p>
<p>Arizona State University - Tempe, Arizona
Colorado State University - Fort Collins, Colorado
Hofstra University - Hempstead, New York
Indiana University PUI - Indianapolis, Indiana
Purdue University - West Lafayette, Indiana
University of Maine - Orono, Maine</p>
<p>I am a little afraid to ask you this…but if funds are so tight that you cannot afford to apply to schools, how do you plan to pay for tuition and living expenses at these schools assuming you do get in? There often is not a lot of financial aid available for transfer students.</p>
<p>What boysX3 said. Also note that as an OOS transfer, you won’t get financial aid. I’d recommend waiting a semester to apply seeing as your prospects for getting the needed courses are higher and the list of schools you can apply to and (possibly) afford to attend is far higher.</p>
<p>With that being said, here’s what I’ver heard about various schools:</p>
<p>IUPUI is a commuter school. Of the ones you listed, Purdue has by far the best repuation for engineering and from what I’ve read, is a very well recruited school. Social life is fairly vibrant although not to the extent that ASU is.</p>
<p>Colorado State has the reputation of being the more conservative school in Colorado, partially owing to its agricultural mission. However, it’s Colorado, so what students at CU Boulder deem conservative may be quite liberal by national standards.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about U Maine, or Hofstra.</p>
<p>Well, the Student Aid Report said I qualified for the maximum Pell grant and some other student loans since I completed the FAFSA by March 1. I just have to add the new school codes, but that aid is guaranteed from what I understand. I do understand that I won’t qualify for any scholarships since it’s passed the priority deadline and my GPA might not be high enough.</p>
<p>I think I will apply to ASU and Purdue, and wait to hear back from the private safety school. Please let me know if you think of any other schools. Thank you!</p>
<p>If you qualify for the maximum Pell Grant, then you probably make less than what these schools cost every year. OOS financial aid is rare, it’s usually merit, and with your stats, you won’t qualify. </p>
<p>Why can’t you wait another semester to apply to one of the Illinois schools which offers engineering? Unfortunately for you, Illinois gives poor financial aid.</p>
<p>*qualified for the maximum Pell grant and some other student loans since I completed the FAFSA by March *</p>
<p>That means about $5600 from Pell, and about $5500 in a loan. That’s about $11k. That not anywhere near enough for the schools you’re talking about.</p>
<p>What public can you commute to from home?</p>
<p>If there isn’t a public that you can commute to from home, then you need to continue at your CC for another year, and then apply to schools that meet need.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s true-I was a lifelong California resident studying at a mediocre Illinois university before transferring to the community college here and received the Pell at both schools. The very small-endowment university also offered subsidized and unsubsidized federal loans, but I declined them.</p>
<p>I am interested in transferring/leaving Illinois for fall 2013-I need a change of scenery. I am only applying to ASU now. While the Purdue transfer deadline is July 1, I found out the specific engineering program doesn’t offer transfer admissions. I will also search schools with spring 2014 admissions and engineering majors, since I am not sure how I feel about ASU even if I do get in.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids That’s why I applied to the two private schools-they’re need met. I am waiting to hear back from one of them-my safety.</p>