Hello I am struggling to find scholarships that for someone in my situation would any be able to tell me any scholarships that I would eligible for or good places to search for California Community College scholarships? I am looking for more merit-based scholarships because I don’t qualify for most need based scholarships.
(BTW I have a 4.0 GPA, 400+ volunteer hours in a hospital, from Los Angeles, Middle Eastern, Male, LGBT)
UC campuses do offer 2 year Regents scholarships for incoming junior transfer students, most of whom come from California community colleges. However, they are highly competitive.
Are you looking for outside scholarships that you would use to help pay for college once you transfer to a 4 year univ?
There really aren’t many.
You need to look at the colleges for those. Transfer scholarships aren’t usually very big. Do you belong to PTK? There may be merit associated with that.
If you’re a Calif resident, and you don’t qualify for Cal grants, then how much will your family pay each year towards college?
What CSU is near you? What is your major? Are you a sophomore? Did you apply to any CSUs and UCs?
Yeah I am looking for both inside and outside scholarships. I unforunately did not sign up for PTK, I’m not sure if its too late to sign up but it probably is.
My parents are not giving me a straight answer on how much they are willing to pay ugh.
I live near CSUN, I am a Anthro major, I’ve been in community college for 3 year with 72 unit now but 88 by transfer.
I applied to : UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCSB, UCI. the CSUs : CSUN, SDSU, Caly Poly SLO.
I am playing on applying to USC, Pitzer, Cornell, and NYU. (maybe somewhere else if I can find a school with a good merit scholarship)
That is never a good sign. Have them sit with you and un the NPC on USC’s website and see what they say about the results.
Do your parents own a business or take business deductions?
Warning: if the NPC doesn’t ask if you’re a transfer student, then the results may be more favorable than they really are. Also if your parents own a business or take business deductions the results won’t be right either.
The problem is that schools are rated by how strong their incoming freshman class is. Transfers don’t mean much to them. That’s why transfers often get worse awards.
Don’t bother with NYU unless your parents will pay $70k per year for that school.