Colleges receive federal work study money. The colleges determine who that money will be awarded to. It is not an entitlement. There is limited funding for federal WS per school. The CA colleges are under NO obligation to offer federal work study to OOS students.
The word is that these schools will not be awarding any need based aid to out of state students. Federal work study is need based aid.
I’m sure the CA colleges have plenty of instate students with financial need who they can award their federal work study money to.
I know one person – out of hundreds of students I’ve helped through the scholarship/financial aid process – who got a dependency override. And she had extensive documentation of abuse in the home, having to live with unrelated friends, complete and total lack of family support and no possibility of future support, the list goes on.
You need A LOT more than “My parents aren’t giving me money anymore” to become independent for financial aid purposes.
If you cannot afford SDSU for all 4 years, then see whether UIUC or ISU are still viable. Or take a gap year and reapply from scratch to more affordable colleges in this upcoming admissions round.
One year at SDSU then transferring isn’t going to do you any favors, because the best aid/merit packages are offered to incoming new freshman.
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I’m sure the CA colleges have plenty of instate students with financial need who they can award their federal work study money to
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that’s the issue. Of course, Calif publics could award federal WS and SEOG grants to OOS students, but because those aids are limited, they’re going to offer to instate first…and likely run out before they get to OOS.
^ I think you misunderstood thumper. She was saying that they will award FWS to in-state students (OOS won’t receive any because there are so many needy IS students).
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@romanigypsyeyes I think that is what I said. Calif publics are going to award fed aid (WS and SEOG) to instate students first…and Calif publics will run out of WS and SEOG…so lnone would be available for OOS.
Sorry guys. I hardly check this account.
I was just thinking about paying for myself because I didn’t want so much debt on my parents, that’s all.
Apparently though, I asked my dad & he didn’t tell me the whole story. He said that we’re almost done paying for the house & we should only take out loans the second year. I mixed it up (sorry).
We pay 16.8k for the house mortgage. So that in addition to the 10k & then he gets retirement the 3rd year, which is 3k a month. That’s why I can afford it. I didn’t understand why either.
Every summer these boards and many FB pages are full of students not returning for sophomore year as the reality hits them that they cannot afford to continue and have to leave. The sad thing is that from here on after they are a transfer student with no access to all the freshman and first year scholarships and opportunities. Stop this madness while you are still able.
If your siblings are in school at the same time as you the total cost may not be much different. You should run the NPC for concurrent students at a few likely universities for them to see what it would be and to determine whether it is affordable for your family. Alternately, work for an employer with tuition benefits, or serve in the military for 2 years (and make college contributions) to be eligible for the GI bill (8 semesters) , and in-state tuition everywhere.