<p>I have to come up with 9,000 which is beyond what my parents can do, I barely got any financial aid, where can I apply to get some scholarship money I applied to a lot of scholarships(like 300?) and only got 100 dollars, I can't pay for college with 100 bucks so where can I get some money so I could actually go to college.</p>
<p>There is no money fairy or magic pile of scholarship money available. </p>
<p>If you don’t have the money you need to go to a cheaper school, take a gap year, work and save $, commute, or work full time and take classes at night. Most likely some combination of these.</p>
<p>No scholarships available at all?</p>
<p>I hope other students/parents read that you applied to 300 private scholarships and only got $100. For those who need money for college, private scholarships are not the way to go.</p>
<p>As Iron maiden says, there isn’t a Tuition Fairy out there. </p>
<p>You have few choices:</p>
<p>1) Attend a CC</p>
<p>2) Attend a local state school that you can commute to.</p>
<p>3) Take a gap year and apply to AFFORDABLE schools. For some reason, you didn’t seem to apply to ANY financial safety schools.</p>
<p>4) Find out how much your parents can pay, earn the rest, cut back on non-essentials, buy used books, etc to close the gap.</p>
<p>What is the breakdown of the school’s COA?</p>
<p>What is the breakdown of the aid you got?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>What was your FAFSA EFC?</p>
<p>What was your GPA?</p>
<p>what were your test scores (include SAT breakdown).</p>
<p>Solution: Community college</p>
<p>Community colleges have made great strides in mapping their first 2 years to the first 2 years of many 4-year universities. Here in Maryland, all of the community colleges map to all of the schools in the U-Maryland System (U-Maryland College Park, U-Maryland Baltimore County, Towson, etc) and 4 of the community colleges actually have guaranteed admission agreements with U-Maryland College Park.</p>
<p>I suggest you do the same in your state. Besides, your first 2 years will be taking your required english composition, social science, arts, humanities, math amd science, there is actually no reason to be paying a ton of money for those courses anyway (different thread topic, I know).</p>
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<li>Attend a CC</li>
<li>Map out a course schedule that is good for smooth transfer</li>
<li>Have some in-state 4-year schools in mind</li>
<li>Execute the above steps</li>
</ol>
<p>Employers only care that you have a B.A./B.S. and maybe where you graduated from (some job industries). There WON’T CARE where you started.</p>
<p>I know here in Maryland, the CC’s charge about $100/semester-credit. The first 2 years is 60 credits or $6000. I am pretty sure that their are jobs that can pay $6000 over the course of 730 days (2 years).</p>
<p>Good Luck.</p>
<p>Before the student decides to go to a CC, s/he needs to explore options based on circumstances.</p>
<p>If the student will face the same unaffordable college issues as a transfer student, then going to a CC first may not be the right solution since aid/merit for transfers isn’t very good.</p>
<p>If the student just applied to the WRONG schools for stats/income, then taking a gap year would be better and reapplying to universities as an incoming frosh would be a better idea.</p>
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<p>The place to get scholarships is from the school itself. Usually a careful strategy targeting appropriate schools is required. The deadlines for scholarships awarded to freshmen enrolling this fall have long past.</p>
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Originally Posted by WastedHSYears</p>
<h2>No scholarships available at all?</h2>
<p>Unless a private scholarship is one of those RARE ones that is large and is renewable for all 4 years, applying to them is a WASTE of time if the money is needed to pay for college. Private scholarships are usually ONLY for freshman year. Even if you had won more than $100, the money awarded would likely be only be for frosh year. </p>
<p>The fact that you applied to 300 and only got $100 provides the answer to your question.</p>
<p>Colleges are the source for large scholarships for ALL four years.</p>
<p>So I had pretty good grades in HS. 3.8 GPA(With tons of A:P classes) 1500 SAT, and I was denied</p>
<p>If that SAT is Math + CR, then maybe you should take a gap year and apply to schools that would give you lots of merit. Heck, with that SAT, if you contact UA-Huntsville now, they might still offer you a free ride.</p>