<p>I recently deferred my admission to NYU because of money, and because of this, my step-dad has offered me 15k a year if I stay home for the year and show him that I can work. Obviously, this can't pay for NYU. I live in Virginia, so UVA would be the obvious choice to go apply to, but I really don't think I can get in there, and most OOS schools are a good bit more than 15k. So my question is, what's a school at which I could almost definitely get a merit scholarship to help lower it under 20k? Not a financial need scholarship (I definitely can't get that), but just a merit scholarship. I graduated with a 3.8 UW, not sure of my class rank, but it's at least top 50%, and a 1900 on my SAT. I'm hispanic, also, if that helps at all, and a first generation college student. I know I don't have the best scores, but surely there must be something out there. </p>
<p>Competitive Full Ride/ Full Tuition scholarships: <a href=“Competitive Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1461983-competitive-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-p1.html</a></p>
<p>Merit Scholarships: <a href=“Automatic Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-p1.html</a></p>
<p>You might want to look at the U of Alabama out-of-state scholarships. SAT requirements are CR+M
<a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out-of-state.html”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out-of-state.html</a></p>
<p>You need the total cost to be under 20k per year? What is your gpa and your SAT breakdown M+CR?</p>
<p>At the top of this forum are some pinned threads. One is for guaranteed half and full tuition scholarships. </p>
<p>You applied for NYU and got accepted but cost is too much (no surprise.) You didn’t even try for any UVA or any instate options?</p>
<p>I looked at a lot of those, and at least the auto-grant ones I wouldn’t be able to get because of the SAT requirements. I don’t know how much the hassle would be worth of taking it again, especially now that I’ve gone a few months without doing any schoolwork of any kind. </p>
<p>@BrownParent
My high school class was really competitive, so even kids with 4.0 GPAs and 2000 SATs got rejected (I’m not sure what the general M+CR score would be). Like I said, I graudated with a 3.8 UW and a 1900 SAT, so I really doubt I would get into UVA at all, considering the school I went to, as well as my location. I live in one of the more well off counties of Virginia (Loudoun), so UVA tends to be a lot more selective of us than those further away from D.C.</p>
<p>Instate wise, I’ve really only looked at GMU for their economics program, the other “good” schools here (VTech, JMU, Richmond, and VCU) don’t really offer what I’d like, barring Tech, but again, I really 1) wouldn’t want to go there, 2) can’t get in for economics. </p>
<p>Sorry for answering your questions backwards, but yeah I need the total cost to be at around 20k or under. I was also looking at CUNY Baruch, whose tuition is 15k OOS, but I would need to find somewhere to live. They offer dorms for around 10k a year, which is a bit much. I’ll also have 6k saved up by the time I leave for college next year, which should allow me 750 a month for rent of a room, but I don’t know if that would be enough for a room in Brooklyn, even. </p>
<p>What are your ultimate degree plans – will you stop with an undergraduate degree, or is it likely that you will go on for a graduate or professional degree? If the latter, get a good scholarship to one of your in-state schools to minimize any debt, since you likely will be incurring much more in the future for graduate/professional school.</p>
<p>By the way, the cost of living for attending any CUNY school is going to be exorbitant, so I would forget about that option.</p>
<p>Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ has a very low total cost (tuition, fees, room and board) of $31,376 for OOS. </p>
<p>It’s academic reputation is on the rise and the University is growing. Several students from my DDs high school have attended and really like it. It has an economics major, among many others. It is located in a nice suburban area, but is well situated with good access for internships, entertainment, etc., being about 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia.</p>
<p>According to their website, they have pretty generous merit scholarships available for IS and OOS students, with a sliding scale depending on CR+M SAT score/GPA. link to scholarship page on website:</p>
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<p>Another school with a decent academic reputation and low cost is York College in PA only $22,580 (tuition, fees, room and board). They don’t have an economics major, but it does have majors in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Sports Management
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<p>These schools might be worth a look. Since you are taking a gap year, it would be worth trying to improve your SAT scores to help with merit aid wherever you apply(you won’t be spending any time doing homework-so give it a try!
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<p>Sorry - I posted a link to York College in Nebraska. Here is the correct link for York college in PA:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ycp.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/”>http://www.ycp.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/</a></p>
<p>Tuition,Fees, Room and Board is $27,500</p>
<p>They do also offer merit scholarships, which could reduce the price tag further.</p>
<p>Why won’t your step father just save that $15,000 so you can go to a school of your choice?</p>
<p>I also disagree with the post about off campus housing at CUNY colleges. Yes, there are some expensive parts of the city, but you don’t have to choose to live in Midtown or the Upper East Side. There are plenty of low cost options outside of Manhattan. I wouldn’t cross them off your list.</p>
<p>@AnnieBeats , I’m confused as to what you’re proposing with that 15k? The deal is that I just stay home this year and work, and next year he’ll give me 15k per year for college. </p>
<p>As for living in NYC, I wasn’t planning on living in Manhattan or anything like that. It’d probably be somewhere in Brooklyn/Better part of the Bronx. </p>
<p>I don’t understand not at least applying to UVa and W&M.</p>
<p>You don’t know for sure if you’d get in or not without applying.</p>
<p>If you get rejected by both, there’s always Richard Bland: <a href=“http://www.rbc.edu/”>http://www.rbc.edu/</a>
Guaranteed admission to W&M with a 3.25 GPA.</p>
<p>Oh okay. I misread what you said. Sorry. I thought it was $15K for you to have to spend instead of $15K for college. </p>
<p>@PurpleTitan RBC looked nice until I saw the campus. I really can’t do anything not in an urban/semi urban area. It seems to be around half an hour away from Richmond, but still, that’s still too out of my comfort zone. </p>
<p>Virginia has many strong state universities and colleges… most have a major in economics, or a related discipline. </p>
<p>The $15,000 per year that your family can contribute, plus a direct loan ($5500 for a freshmen), plus money you have earned from working, plus any state aid you may qualify for/ merit aid you can achieve would pay for the cost of you living away at a VA state university. </p>
<p>If a four year university is not affordable at this time, the CC to four year university with an articulation agreement route likely could be. </p>
<p>What is your CR+M score on the SAT? If it is high enough to qualify for guaranteed tuition at a schools listed in post #1, the $15,000 per year your family can contribute may cover the other expenses. If it is not currently high enough, you may want to try more prep to see how high you can raise your scores. Also try the ACT. </p>
<p>@KatMT SAT is around 1220, I believe. My GPA is high enough for a lot of the scholarships, but not my SAT. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve mentioned it in the thread, but I’m not really looking instate. The only school I’ve considered is GMU, so I don’t really need (nor am I asking for) any more recs for Virginia schools. Without getting too specific, Virginia schools don’t offer what I want from a college, academically or atmospherically. That isn’t to say I need for a college to be a perfect match, but really no school provides 1) good academics, with a strong econ department 2) urban location. UVA has great econ/business but I really couldn’t get in, Mason has an okay location with a great econ program, but I’m not overly interested. JMU, Tech, and VCU are the only other Virginia schools <em>I</em> consider worthwhile at all, and two are party schools, with the other in the middle of no where. I hope I don’t need to clarify further why I’m not interested. </p>
<p>@dictatortobe:</p>
<p>My only advice to you is to try not to make any decision due to reasons that you yourself will think are pretty stupid 20-30 years later (or even 5 years hence). Right now, I’m not sure anyone can come up with an OOS solution that fits your wants with your test scores. I’m sure that there are OOS CC’s with guaranteed transfers to good 4-years that you can afford (for instance, in the CA system), but once you transfer, how would you be able to pay? I believe the VA CC system also has a guaranteed agreement with UVa, though the GPA you have to maintain is decently high, I believe.</p>
<p>@PurpleTitan </p>
<p>Don’t worry, I understand what you’re saying. Choosing a school on atmosphere (alone) would be pretty silly, but I see it more as it /is/ 4-5 years of my life that I’m not getting back. While yes, college is for learning and studying first, it is also important to be somewhere where I am happy and comfortable. Otherwise, while I may be learning, it will be a miserable 4-5 years before grad school. </p>
<p>I have some colleges in mind already (UMN looks to be the best candidate, minus the price being a bit out of what I’d like, CUNY Hunter/Baruch/Brooklyn look good) I wanted to get some further options. I realize I’m asking a lot, so this thread was more of a help to find those last few colleges that match my description; it wasn’t mean to be some accumulation of hundreds of schools to which I’d like to apply. </p>
<p>VACC does have guaranteed admission into UVA, which wouldn’t be that bad. If it comes down to it, I may do that. </p>
<p>CUNY Staten Island has brand new, absolutely gorgeous dorms.</p>
<p>Most of the CUNY schools are commuter schools. As a graduate of Hunter College, I can say it was a bummer having to commute to and from school. The atmosphere was definitely different from my sons’ experiences in college. </p>
<p>My nephew goes to CUNY Staten Island but he commutes from home :)</p>