<p>I'll get straight to the story and then maybe someone could help me out here.</p>
<p>Back in Feburary I made sure to get do my FAFSA, CSS Profile, etc. I had received two packages since then. One from Fordham University and the other from Penn State at University Park. Time went by and I figured well the colleges probably haven't gotten to mail it out yet. So I waited and waited and finally I decided to call on Monday to see what had happened. Mind you I applied to 14 colleges so that meant I had to do a lot of corrections to the FAFSA. For whatever reason when I made the corrections I must have forgotten to include some schools.</p>
<p>So you get an idea here are the schools I applied to and the results:
SUNY Albany Accepted
SUNY Oneonta Accepted
SUNY Buffalo Accepted
CUNY Baruch C Accepted
U Vermont Accepted
Old Dominion U Accepted
Penn State Accepted
Bowling Green SU Accepted
Fordham Accepted
Elon in NC Accepted
SUNY Geneseo Deferred
U South Car Deferred
Northeastern Rejected
New York University Rejected</p>
<p>Well needless to say that I got screwed over big time because 3 of the schools that I did send the FAFSA rejected me. The other 5 got it but only two(FU and PSU) of them ever got back to me to with official packages while one (UVM) of them required more paper work which I didn't know until just last week. (Fortunately UVM was nice enough to give me an estimate of what I would receive which helps out a lot.) The other one required one form to determine if I was an in-state student or not and to make it worse they never mailed me about it so I didn't find out until I called them this week. So I made some calls this Monday and the schools that didn't receive my FAFSA said I was never on file. I called FAFSA and they told me I never put those schools down although I have a pdf file stating otherwise. So right after that call I made the corrections and it was processed the next night (tuesday). Good thing is that many of the schools said that it shouldn't count against me because they'll know when I started filing the FAFSA even if I haven't send out the FAFSA to them. The bad news is that some of them might take a while to come up with packages (a couple weeks some say). And May 1st is right around the corner and I don't have the slightest clue where I want to go.</p>
<p>In terms of Fin-Aid offers here is what I know:
Uni. of Vermont
Fin-Aid= 38,735 (4,065 loans)
Cost= 36,542</p>
<p>Penn State
Fin-Aid= 8,925 (2,625 loans)
Cost= 31,242</p>
<p>Bowling Green SU
Scholarship= 15,852
Cost= 22,391 (and maybe + 3,180)</p>
<p>Fordham Uni.
Fin-Aid= 35,957 (7,575 loans)
Cost= 35,977</p>
<p>I've visited the following schools:
Uni of Vermont, Fordham Uni. (I lived in the area for a good portion of my life and still travel pass it all the time; even at that I'm going to have an official visit this Sunday), CUNY Baruch, SUNY Oneonta, and Northeastern. I'll be visiting SUNY Albany hopefully this Saturday.</p>
<p>Ok so many of the schools I just couldn't visit because they are too far and I don't have a car nor anyway of going to the other schools. In fact only reason I'm going to be visiting SUNY Albany is because I have a friend who is going there and he offered to take me along.</p>
<p>I haven't made a decision yet. One thing I wanted out of college though was the ability to dorm and none of the New York City schools I applied to offered dorming to me since I'm a Bronx resident. I want to be able to get the most of the college experience and there's no better way to do that then by living on campus. I also wanted to be able to experience something new by going somewhere I've never been before.</p>
<p>I don't know what to do. After I got rejected from the one school (Northeastern) I was focused on attending I didn't really have a second choice. Maybe NYU could have been that school but I didn't really think I'd get in.</p>
<p>So here I am. Don't know where I want to go. Don't have all my financial aid packages and probably won't get them until after May 1st. So what do I do? If anyone can tell me about the schools I listed that I haven't visited yet it would be very helpful since I don't know a great deal about the campuses or what life is like in those towns.</p>
<p>I'm looking to do business by the way if that helps at all.</p>
<p>On a side note: I might try to transfer out after a year to Northeastern but that of course is a maybe because I don't know what can happen a year from now. I may like it where ever I go.</p>
<p>That's it I think. Thanks in advance for any advice.</p>