<p>Hello, </p>
<p>It's comical that I put the title as fast guidance. I'm one of those people who stay up til 4 am researching and planning for years in advance. I have a high school GPA 3.98, a college GPA 3.93 after 100+ credits in college, and I'm 19. Technically a junior at my current school. I started out at CSU long beach (mainly bc of location, full-ride, and music conservatory) and wasn't challenged near enough. Ended up being invited to Boston University this fall to be a double major in Music and Psychology (Junior transfer). However, I accepted and when I got here, the aid I was under the impression would be given to me was "overspent". Tuition here is $42,000 a year and I pay for college on my own. The last thing I want is $150,000 of loans between housing, tuition, book, etc from my last two years of college and only for Bachelors degree.</p>
<p>This is my first semester BU if I pull out tomorrow I get half of my tuition back and I can transfer to a different university without showing "two transfers." However, I'm not sure if I should stay in this semester and it be better transferring from Boston U. </p>
<p>I guess my plea for advice would be to the following questions. Any UC (which I would get in-state tuition bc I'm a CA resident) does not accept transfers till fall. Should I go study language abroad and intern for the rest of the fall and spring term while applying for UCLA and SFSU for fall 2012? or would that look bad on applications and the rest of my college plans? </p>
<p>Does anyone know of a school that does spring admission with a tuition less than $30,000? It needs to be a very reputable school. BU is #53 National rank approximately and I plan on doing a Post-bac (preferably at JHU, Columbia, U of Penn or USC) after double majoring in Music and Psych to then continue on to med school. </p>
<p>If anyone has some common sense to send my way I'd be MOST appreciative. I need to make this decision by tomorrow about dropping out and getting back my tuition from BU. It's amazing how hard we work to get into college and to keep our grades up with extra curricular resume "helpers" yet we are still expected to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars... Good luck to anyone else who is in the same situation.</p>