I’m a incoming sophomore at UC Berkeley- I have a 4.0 gpa (from just first semester, my department strongly recommended us to P/NP my classes so I did what they said) & have the regents scholarship (top 1% of student body).
I don’t like big public schools & the lack of personal attention and would like to transfer- unfortunately, my parents will only pay tuition (& I work for room and board) and we don’t qualify for financial aid. Does anyone know of universities that offer substantial merit scholarships?
How much tuition?
Are you looking at LACs? Many LACs do have transfer scholarships but generally they would be outside the top tier and/or outside of the coasts. Some of them are well-liked by some CC posters.
Schools like Beloit: https://www.beloit.edu/admission/tuition-aid/merit-scholarships/
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I would not be able to spend much more than in-state tuition- so any school where merit scholarships would bring my cost of attendance down to $40k/year or less (I don’t qualify for financial aid but my parents can’t spend more than that).
I’m not looking for financial funding now- Cal is certainly not cheap but I’m doing ok paying it and don’t have debt. I just don’t enjoy the experience and am looking for a school with similar COA.
Here is my free advice.
Stay at Cal. As you progress to upper level courses in your major, you will be seeing less and less of that HUGE campus population. You will form a cohort of folks in your major. Even if it’s a larger major, you still will feel like your college has reduced in size.
I think you won’t find significant merit aid.
Look at the SUNY colleges. They are smaller than Cal. They will come in close to your $40,000 a year prices point.
You might…might…get merit aid at a smaller LAC like Denison in Ohio. But I’m not sure they have generous merit aid for transfer students. That will be your issue…
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I’m confused. Unless I’m reading something wrong…instate tuition only at Cal is not $40,000 a year. It’s more like $15,000 a year.
OOS tuition is $43,000 a year.
If your parents can pay $40,000 a year, they would be paying the full cost of attendance as an instate student at Cal.
Are you instate for Cal?
Please clarify.
Hey @aaaabbbb121212 I’m going to advocate for my school TCU here. We offer quite a few transfer scholarships including some up to full tuition. I am very familiar with Cal as friends and family attend there, so I get your reasons for transferring. TCU offers a lot more personal attention, but still an academic emphasis with good athletics.
Here’s a link to the full page of transfer scholarships:
https://financialaid.tcu.edu/types-of-aid/scholarships/transfer-academic-scholarships.php
And if you have any questions please let me know and I can PM you if you want.
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No one is enjoying the current climate, IMO wherever you transfer to will be a problem on your experiential desirability list. Sit tight, work just as hard as you have been and be happy your parents can afford to pay for college. Lots of families are going to have unemployed parents in the near and possibly far future, whatever their current position. And your job that pays you enough for R&B at cal as a an undergrad? How safe would that be? If you earn enough working student friendly PT to pay for R&B (about 15K right) that is some great paying job.
@thumper1 Cost of attendance is tuition + room + board- I am in-state at Cal but the bay area is so expensive that the cost of living is estimated to be around 20k/year + 15k tuition. I might be able to pay a bit more than that so that’s why I said the cost of attendance (total) for a university has to be less than 40k/year- meaning, tuition should be $20k or less.
@Sybylla My job is online private tutoring- so I would be fine even if I transfer
@SuperfrogFan I’ll check out TCU!