Transfer Student getting a scholarship?

Paying for College
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<p>I'm finishing up at a Community College and looking to transfer to a four year school. I've got a 3.6GPA. One of the schools I'm looking at Winthrop said that with over a 3.5GPA I would get in-state tuition. Thats half the price of OOS Tuition. I'm coming from upstate New York, looking at schools in NC/SC and the south. I was wondering with a 3.6GPA, will a lot of schools have scholarships available? And if so for how much? High Point University one of the schools I was looking is $33,000, a scholarship would be nice. Can you bargain with schools?</p>

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<p>Scholarship aid is few and far between for transfer students. They are usually given freshman year to woo student from other schools or as a mechanism for discounting the cost of attendance for students that they would like to attract. </p>

<p>No school wants to be “bargained” with and as a transfer students you will have very little leverage to do any “bargaining.”</p>

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<p>where does it say that you’d get in-state tuition from Winthrop?</p>

<p>Full time OOS tuition is about $22,000 per year.<br>
Full time In state is about $12,000. </p>

<p>The scholarship that you’d get is $5500.</p>

<p>Winthrop [Winthrop</a> University: Financial Aid - Academic Scholarships](<a href=“http://www.winthrop.edu/finaid/default.aspx?id=3482]Winthrop”>http://www.winthrop.edu/finaid/default.aspx?id=3482)</p>

<p>Out-of-State</p>

<p>University Scholarship $500 $5,000 30 3.5 – 3.69</p>

<p>Notes:</p>

<ol>
<li>Out-of state scholarships include a grant to cover a portion of out-of-state fees.</li>
<li>All course work completed (excluding remedial or developmental courses) will be used to calculate the cumulative hours and GPR</li>
</ol>

<p>Maybe I’m missing something…</p>

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<p>I guess OP thinks if s/he could get a peabody scholarship for $10,000 as an OOS, it would be close to the equivalent of paying in-state tuition. However, Op would need a 3.7 gpa to qualify.</p>

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<p>I guess I was reading it wrong. Maybe I could get a Peabody scholarship, it looks like I better hit the books and finish this semester strong and get my GPA up.</p>