<p>My situation: I have been accepted to Washington State University and I'd receive a scholarship from them that would cover all my tuition and fees at the university.</p>
<p>I really wanted to get into UW Seattle this year and I'm still thinking about transferring there, but I also want to attend law school and several people warned me that, when you transfer, the transition will be a lot harder and I also didn't know that my grades won't transfer from a community college to a university - just the credits would.</p>
<p>I am a Running Start student by the way so I could just stay at my CC, finish up my AA and then go to UW - or, if I don't get in, go to WSU.</p>
<p>My parents want me to decide for myself, however, I just don't know what to do.</p>
<p>I don't want to not transfer and later regret my decision but I also don't know if it would have a lot of disadvantages of staying at a CC.
I wanted to take the LSAT in June of my junior year but if I'd really have only one-two years to get stellar grades and would also have to excel the LSAT... </p>
<p>I really, really need to hear some people's opinions on this!</p>
<p>Do I understand right? You are a HS senior, rejected at UW, but full scholarship at WSU? So you are comparing two years at CC then transfering to UW, versus four years at WSU?</p>
<p>I don’t have any basis for opinions on transferring or law school applications. Can you make a list of criteria you are considering? Perhaps that will help focus your thinking. Some of the differences between your two options are: how soon you move out of the house, experiencing the college social life, how challenging academics will be, how easy it will be to maintain a high GPA, access to athletics and other extracurriculars during your first two years… and others.</p>
<p>If you do decide to transfer from CC, see the transfer counselor at your CC <em>now</em> to make sure you are taking the right courses.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m a HS senior who got rejected at UW and I would get a full tuition scholarship from WSU. I’d still have to pay for room and board though.</p>
<p>I’m in RS but I started in my senior year so I would have completed one year of college when I graduate HS. I could stay another year at my community college and would then try to transfer to UW for Fall 2012 with my AA.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m really concerned that it will be hard for me to adjust after transferring. I wanted to join a sorority but my main concern is really if I will be able to get a high GPA after transferring. That question can nobody answer though.</p>
<p>I don’t know - would it be stupid to not go to WSU? I don’t want to regret my decision later. If I would go to WSU now I would not try to transfer to UW later.</p>
<p>Why don’t you call the pre-law advisor at WSU and ask about their law school placement? Generally speaking, law school admissions is all about your GPA and your LSAT. The name on your diploma is not that important. Also, law school is ridiculously expensive. You may want to accept that scholarship at WSU so that you can afford law school later.</p>
<p>Neither decision is stupid. You’re just weighing the pros and cons of two sensible approaches. happymomof1 makes a great point about the cost of law school. I do think that if you will find a high GPA easier to get at WSU than UW, and perhaps it would be easier to get involved with a sorority if you start as a freshman. You might want to start a thread with a title related to transferring, to attract people with knowledge about that.</p>
<p>Thank you! That’s a really great idea, however, I just called them and apparently they don’t have any information on this. Yes, that’s what I thought as well - that it might be easier to get a higher GPA at WSU than at UW. If I would stay at my CC I could also save up some money but my GPA wouldn’t transfer to the university. The reason why I’m also a bit more drawn to UW is that they have a law school and that I might be able to take some law school courses as an undergrad. I don’t know if I would get accepted next year when I’d transfer so it’s a pretty tough decision for me.</p>
<p>@seattle_mom</p>
<p>Thank you for your input! I think it would be easier for me to join as a freshman.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you’ve heard about the recent decisions regarding tuition increases at UW but it’s frightening. 16% increase this year and next, and who knows what it will be the next time the budget is re-evaluated?</p>
<p>It’s all WA schools, but if your scholarship at WSU covers tuition and fees, I would assume that the scholarship amount would increase with tuition, although I could be wrong, I’m just basing that assumption on a full-tuition scholarship I received at a different school. Room and board will most likely not increase to the same extent because if they’re forcing students off campus with the price then the school loses that revenue completely.</p>
<p>It’s renewable and it does cover my tuiton and fees so if I keep my grades up and if tuition starts to rise - maybe I should just be thankful and go to WSU.</p>
<p>Yes, I think you’re right! They mentioned something similar in my financial aid letter.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of undergraduates being allowed to take law school classes–not saying it doesn’t happen, but if that’s a big draw for you, call to find out, rather than assuming.</p>
<p>*I am a Running Start student by the way so I could just stay at my CC, finish up my AA and then go to UW - or, if I don’t get in, go to WSU.</p>
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<p>If you continue at your CC after you graduate from high school, then you will no longer be considered an incoming freshman so you won’t get good merit scholarships after that. It’s ok that you have Running Start credits while IN high school…you still get considered to be an incoming frosh for merit purposes.</p>
<p>Since you’re planning on law school, spend as little as you can for undergrad. WSU is definitely a good enough school for someone who wants to go to law school.</p>
<p>I’ll call UW but as of right now I think the best thing for me would be to transfer, honestly.
I don’t know if I’d be happy at WSU because of its location and I’m not sure if I’d have the same opportunities in Pullman that I’d have in a bigger city - like internships.</p>
<p>My parents want me to be happy but I’m going back and forth between attending and not attending WSU - and if I’d really love the school I would go in a heartbeat and would stop weighing the pro’s and con’s.</p>
<p>The main reason why I thought it might be better to go to WSU now, or any university I should say, is because I’m afraid that I will not get a high GPA in just two semesters.
I know that I should take my LSAT in June of my junior year and I’m afraid that it’d be impossible for me to achieve a high GPA and a high LSAT score while making the transition to the university.
I applied to just three schools - U of Idaho, WSU and UW Seattle.
U of Idaho is not interesting because I won’t receive any scholarships or awards from them.</p>
<p>The scholarship from WSU is a preliminary award… so I’m not sure if I’ll even get it at the end. </p>
<p>I feel like I’m standing in my own way but knowing that I’d have to stay in Pullman for three years… I really don’t think that’d be a good idea.</p>