<p>OP, the net price calculators are your best friends (not scary) if you can get your parents to help you fill them out. Tell them you can’t find the truly cheapest college that they want you to look for without running those calculators, and you need their help to do it. And see if you can get them to commit to a certain amount per year – tell them once you know that, you can figure out whether colleges that offer some merit scholarships might be reasonable for you or still too expensive.</p>
<p>Wonderful advice everyone. Especially the rephrasing of what I need to say and have been saying. I believe I will bring this up next month after I visit Arizona State. I dont like ASU in the least but a family member set me to go tour with my cousin. Again I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Are you going to do the skateboard tour? Or maybe it’s actually a longboard tour. Are you going to check out Barrett? Do an overnight? Be sure to check out the science bldg where they have all the display cases of reptiles. I never knew there were so many kinds of rattlesnakes. They have an albino rattlesnake, 35 yrs old. I think his name is Hector. You’ve been there before already?</p>
<p>No, we’re not affluent (That weird, too much to need but too little to afford amount</p>
<p>Your parents are giving conflicting info. They’ve told you to go wherever you want and they’ve told you to go to the cheapest school possible.</p>
<p>That doesn’t bode well. </p>
<p>Jr year isn’t too early to look for colleges, especially if “paying for college” is an issue. </p>
<p>Sometimes parents are uncomfortable about discussing these things because their budget is tight so they don’t have extra money leftover each month…at least not enough to pay for college.</p>
<p>Did your parents go to college? </p>
<p>If you have strong grades and test scores, there are schools that will give you merit scholarships. But, usually, there is still a good bit for families to cover after the scholarships. </p>
<p>When you talk to your parents, you need to explain that you really do need to know what the family can pay so you can plan accordingly. Have them use the NPCs on a few schools’ websites. Don’t use the HYPS, because those will give you misleading info.</p>
<p>As for the ASU thing, I’ve gone past it a lot but never to it. My parents did not go to college so I can pull quite a few strings and a few merit scholarships. We’ve got enough saved up where tuition to a state school would wipe out all savings. I do have the grades and projected test scores to get a full ride a college in Durham but its not safe and it doesn’t have the academic standard that I want. But yes I appreciate the advice. Talking is what’s needed right now.</p>
<p>*I do have the grades and projected test scores to get a full ride a college in Durham *</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>What full ride could you get to UNC??? UNC isn’t known for given out a bunch of merit at all.</p>
<p>What are your projected scores? And what score gets a full ride to UNC???</p>
<p>Maybe he’s talking about NC Central?? HBCU. UNC is pretty safe.</p>
<p>UNC is in Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>Yes, He’s talking about a different school. Dumb mistake on my part, I know that UNC is in Chapel Hill. Watching football at the same time. lol</p>
<p>Anyway…he and his parents need to talk, because most parents will not wipe out all their savings to pay for college.</p>
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<p>Durham has Duke (competitive full ride available) and NC Central (automatic full ride available). UNC in Chapel Hill has two different competitive full rides available.</p>
<p>Presumably, the OP means NC Central, since no one should count on getting the Robertson (Duke and UNC Chapel Hill) or Morehead-Cain (UNC Chapel Hill) scholarships. If so, the OP presumably has a >=3.5 GPA and either >=29 ACT or >=1900 SAT, as these are the full ride thresholds for NC Central.</p>