Transfer Acceptance for Fall 2017

Transfer Students
1

Hi, I am from Oklahoma. I am attending a community college right now in my first year of undergrad and I am extremely interested in transferring. I come from a very troubled family with a very troubling past and would greatly appreciate a college that is affordable through aid. I would also love to attend college somewhere along the northeast, but other than that I am extremely open minded would greatly appreciate the help.
My stats:
3.3 Highschool GPA
24 Act (currently enrolled to take again)
3.5 college gpa, 29 total credits for fall and spring
Work: I have worked a part time job through the last 3 years of my life, I currently took time off to study for the ACT as well as focus on transferring.
Extras: I have volunteered quite frequently, established 2 organisations at my highschool in which I am co-chairman of. I also played for my highschool football team which was nationally ranked.
I would appreciate all the help and advice from anyone and everyone! Also if anyone has any information regarding programs for troubled students, I would greatly appreciate the support!

2

Couple things - transfer students often get pretty poor aid. Some schools offer good merit scholarships to bring down costs. How much can your family pay per year?

3

Only my sister and I support our family with a combined income of less than 30k for a family of 6. So pretty much I can’t afford to pay out of pocket. I did read online about colleges like NYU and BC that offer a needs based financial aid, would you know anything about that?

4

NYU is notorious for providing very poor financial aid to transfer students, it’s discussed a lot on these forums. Can you go to an in-state school that is cheaper?

5

In Oklahoma, Universities are overly priced and provide extremely low amount of aid. So for me to attend OU for example, it would cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20k a year.

6

I’m not a financial aid expert, but with transfer students it can be hard to get aid.

  1. You can apply to schools like Suffolk & Hofstra & UW Bothell that guarantee merit aid, but they give different tiers based on your GPA.
  2. You can apply to transfer to a school that meets full need but a lot of the time they’re only full need/need blind for freshman admits.

If I were you, I’d maximize the amount of transferrable units you can get, so around 60 give or take, and then apply.

7

Thanks for the help, I’ll look into those schools.