No you can’t. As indicated previously, you’re limited to $5,500 for freshman year. If you pass, you can take $6,500 for sophomore year. If you pass, you can take $7,500 each for junior and senior year. This, with compound interest, adds up to $31,000, which is what a college graduate can reasonably hope to pay back in 10 years.
You need to find affordable universities for your stats. You can run the NPC on Lebanon Valley, Lycoming, SUNY New Paltz, UMass Lowell, Elizabethtown, Siena, LeMoyne, Cuny Staten Island, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, Guilford, Muskingum, Capital, Towson, UMD-Baltimore County, Wells, Rider, Widener, WestChester University.
The easiest way to find universities with better financial aid is to increase your SAT score by preparing very seriously.
I would suggest you find a community college near your father’s home so you can save on room and board and keep your out of pocket costs low. Since you want to pursue a college degree that is challenging for many, you want to have solid grades during your pre-requisites - calculus, physics, english, history, etc. Then you can transfer to 4 year college/university to finish your degree. It may also help you to adjust to the academic load starting at CC first.
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My dad will decide how much he’ll pay for my education after I have received admissions responses and financial aid offers from universities. He will eventually pay part of my education, but it’s too soon to know how thats going work out.
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My dad doesn’t earn 50k per year by the way, way lower than that.
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If your dad earns “way, way lower” than $50k per year, then it’s very likely that he won’t be able to pay ANYTHING towards your education.
Families that earn “way, way lower” than $50k per year, generally need every dime they earn to pay for housing, utilities, food, transportation, health expenses, clothing, etc.
Is your dad married? If so, does his spouse have an income?
you won’t be able to borrow more from a bank, because your dad’s income is too low to qualify as a co-signer.
you can borrow $5,500 as a frosh …that’s a fed student loan.
The 4-year SUNYs cost $30k/year for OOS students. If OP got a Pell grant (~$5k/year), plus the $5500 student loan, and earned ~$3k over the summer, s/he’d still be ~$15k short and SUNYs don’t give out that kind of aid. OOS students with high stats might get some money, but I don’t believe OP’s stats are high enough for aid at the SUNYs.
^OP needs to run NPCs. Those are schools where s/he’s have a shot at getting in and where NPC results are likely to be very different. I’m hoping that from this list, OP will see what universities may be within budget and how financial aid works at publics vs. privates, national vs. regional vs. directional schools, etc.
I agree Op’s stats are not high enough for SUNYs, except Old Westbury and Plattsburgh, perhaps Delhi and Brockport (?)
I think the above is excellent advice. Looking at the Industrial Engineering Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma, the requirements for Mathematics are Calculus I, II, III, Math Elective; Physics I, II for Engineers; General Chemistry, Statics, Applied Engineering Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, etc. These are some very challenging prerequisites and Engineering courses. The OP SAT scores, especially the SAT Math score, is an area of concern, especially if he did not do Pre-calculus and/or AP Calculus AB/BC in high School.
Who said I haven’t seen precalc? My high school is outside of the US so we don’t have AP classes, that doesn’t exist here. Everybody learns the same thing… We cover all the math, physics and chemistry,etc there is to cover in order to graduate from high school with a Scientific mention (that’s how it’s called here) It’s either a humanistic or a scientific mention. I wouldn’t go into engineering if I haven’t seen any physics or math topics like precalc…