<p>I really really REALLY want to school in NYC.
I was considering Pace University because of their nursing program, location and generous financial aid. I would LOVE to get into their honors program but I'm not quite sure I can make it.
My GPA is 3.6 unweighted</p>
<p>My Sat is 1440. :'( I'm not a very good as standardized test taker but I'm taking it again this saturday and again in November.</p>
<p>What are my chances of either getting at least 25k from pace in merit based scholarships, grants etc?
It's so expensive, I care about my future and I know I wouldn't like to be paying student loans for 25 years.</p>
<p>I have tons of EC's. Very determined.</p>
<p>I just really hope I can get the cost of attendance from 52k to around 25k. Advice? Help?</p>
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If this doesn't work, I plan on going to Pace for a year. Excelling academically and then transferring to CUNY Hunter's honors program. (Would they need my sats if I'm a transfer?)
CUNY is great and cheap. And having been in NY for a year, I would be eligible to pay the in-state student tuition correct?</p>
<p>The only thing I'm worried about is
1.)Hunter dorming is very selective (that's why I need to get into honors so I'm guaranteed housing because I'm coming from out of state.
2.)Would I be able to transfer out of the nursing program? I heard it hard to transfer.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post. There are so many questions to answer. Lol PLEASE if you can help me out with anything, I'd appreciate it! And if you could suggest other good colleges in NYC that offer housing, I'd appreciate it as well.</p>
<p>Is your SAT 1440 CR + M, or is that the total score? If that’s the total from all three sections, you won’t be eligible for merit aid at most places, and you probably won’t be competitive for honors either.</p>
<p>If you are under the age of 24, your residency “reflects that of your custodial parents,” according to NYS state laws of residency for university attendance. So you would only be eligible to pay in-state tuition if both you and your parents have moved to NY for a year, and then only if you can prove that you moved to establish it as your permanent domicile and not just for the purpose of you attending school (your parents, if they moved with you, can prove that through voter registration, vehicle registration and driver’s licenses, things like that).</p>
<p>Still, CUNY is pretty affordable for OOS students - I think the tuition and fees is less than $11,000 a year for OOS students. The housing would of course be very expensive, but you don’t have to live on campus at Hunter. You can find roommates and get an apartment together in Queens and commute to Hunter, which is pretty close to Queens actually. And there are other CUNY colleges - Lehman, York College, and College of Staten Island all have BSN programs, as does SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn (and SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island, if you would be interested in going there. It’s also an affordable OOS school - it’s about $29,000 a year for OOS residents, and that includes the total cost of attendance).</p>
<p>AS for Pace - they have an honors scholarship. You have to have a high school average of 90 or higher and an SAT score of 1200 or higher (CR + M - or a 27 on the ACT) with at least a 550 in each section (CR and M).</p>
<p>They also have other scholarships with less stringent requirements - but they are less explicit about the requirements; they just say that you need to show “academic achievement”. You didn’t specify what your grades and CR + M are, but I would guess that you wouldn’t be competitive without a B average and at least a ~1000 CR + M SAT score, and that will probably be a small scholarship - not enough to bring the cost down by half.</p>