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Florida State University
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Florida International University
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University of Central Florida
Waitlisted from UChicago but doubt I can afford it if I got in
Florida A&M gives full ride to instaters that have a 3.5 and an 1800 SAT. Can anyone chime as to whether the SAT can be retaken during a gap year? OP would need to raise score by 30 points.
Sure. You can be 80 and take the SAT.
Colleges will accept a retaken SAT from a gap year (probably not if taken at a CC). As to whether that would qualify for FA&M, the best way to find out is to check with them.
@colestech, Do you have family members who will let you stay with them until you figure out what you can do? If you can raise your SAT, perhaps you could attend Florida A&M on a full scholarship. Don’t take any courses anywhere if you take a gap year, though. Some colleges will consider you a transfer student and you’d lose out on the freshman scholarships.
I think you can still apply to [Florida A&M](Page Not Found). I don’t know how their financial aid works, though. Ask your guidance counselor to find out if you’d qualify for financial aid (Bright Futures, college grant, etc.) If it doesn’t work out this year, don’t take any courses anywhere if you take a gap year. Some colleges will consider you a transfer student and you’d lose out on the freshman scholarships.
Ask your guidance counselor about the possibility of gaining independent status if your parents kick you out. If you turn 18 before the end of the school year, that option may not be open to you. But you can ask.
Good luck.
Thank you for you advice guys
I meant the CSS Profile that you would have had to fill out to apply for financial aid from the schools you applied to. It’s another financial aid form similar to the FAFSA that some schools require in addition to it. You probably submitted it a few months ago.
Im in your same situation brother. I was accepted to my top college but my parents make well over anything considered for financial aid.
You could consider waiting until you are 24. Your parents income won’t count after 24 so you might be able to school your maximum aid amounts. Also, this isn’t illegal - if you get married, you get massive aid benefits. Something to consider.
My plan is to work and save until I’m 30 and try to get accepted again. . . In this country, if you want to go to a top school and you aren’t from the upper classes, you can plan on working until your middle age before you can even begin to afford it. It sucks for all of us man.
@colestech, Please keep us updated. Go see your guidanance counselor today and let us know what s/he advises.
May be they are doing this as they understand the system better. These days we will see these kind of scenarios as lot specifically for kids who want to attend a good college with high tutions. Kids due to peer pressure wants to go to a good school and parents cannot afford the kind of tution rates going on in colleges. Many parents who understands the system enough don’t want their kid ending up in huge debt.Community college is the best option even when your parents would have supported you since that reduces the college cost.
Parents can’t just threaten to throw their kids out to get independent status (which only qualifies them for about $5k of Pell anyway), colleges expect some sort of verification of homelessness. And if the child is 18 when the parent kicks them out, I don’t think that qualifies for independent status.
For the student who posted this note- your father’s parents supported your dad and so you are expecting your dad to support you. The comaparision is not valid. The kind of college tution is today even when parents are earning good they cannot support. My parents did supported me (no cost issue as they didn’t need to worry about cost). But yes I doubt I can support my kids financially. Also parents are getting old and they have to save enough so they don’t have to rely on anyone when they are retired and have no income. I think only parents can help their kids to deal with this situation but kids also need to try to understand and trust their parents.
Please tell us about the massive aid benefits that married students receive.
So all the students at the top schools are either form the upper classes or middle aged? I don’t think so.
@NMC 2015, Are you making your kids move out as soon as they graduate from high school? That’s what OP’s parents said they’re doing. They aren’t even letting him live at home so he can pay his way thru community college; when he graduates from high school, he’s on his own.
I’ve seen this statement before and it’s not really accurate. There are no financial aid awards for being married. All being married gets you is independent status for the FAFSA, which means you don’t have to include your parental information on it. What this means is up to the school; most schools don’t meet full need any way so you might not really be better off.
Right - and you do need to include spousal information.
Yeah forget what I said. Just something I heard, but evidently I was critically incorrect - enough to warrant my revocation of my past statement concerning marriage and aid. Therefore, please ignore my advice.
So OP, did your parents and you decide last fall where you were going to apply etc? What is the issue now?