<p>I'm in my first seneater of community college in Tampa, Florida. I'm 16 with a GED ( I was stupid and left school at 14) an ACT of 30 and 3.9 GPA and I'm looking to transfer for spring 2013 (when I'll be 18), the thing is my efc is 0 and I don't have a lot of options because of my financial situation. I want to go to law school, hopefully NYU, UC Berekely or Columbia, and I wanted to know if going to USF/UCF/FSU as opposed to a more prestigious school will negatively effect my chances. I plan on keeping my GPA up and I got a 171 on a practice LSAT, so what should I do? Take a bunch of loans to go to some school up north, or spend no money(tuition will be completely covered by Pell grants and FL bright futures grants) and stay in FL?</p>
<p>Lol I spelled semester wrong :/</p>
<p>Your stats may well get you into a school that meets heed. Google the list. Your need will e met at most with the Pell Grant you qualify or, grants, a studentlan which would probably total $16K for the 2 years and some work study. Most of these schools would be cheaper than many state schools as those don’t meet need.</p>
<p>Careful when looking at the list. Not all meet need for transfers, but most of them do.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with staying in state though, do well and you’ll certainly have a shot at good law schools.</p>
<p>If you want to go to a T14 law school, you would do best to go to undergrad somewhere you can keep your debt at 0 and your GPA as high as possible. If you can live at home and commute to USF (or even New College? I don’t know where exactly in the Tampa area you are), that would certainly meet those criteria. </p>
<p>From experience, it’s also very difficult to get aid as a transfer to a private or OOS public school, and it sounds like you will need it. And while your FL community college credits will transfer to any in-state public university, they won’t come with you to many out of state schools, and if they do you may still find yourself retaking many gen-ed requirements once you get there.</p>
<p>If you don’t have a really good reason to go out of state, don’t.</p>
<p>I agree with mookerson, but taking a practice LSAT, and then taking the real thing is much different. Your GPA is solid, and I would imagine that you would be competitive at all schools that you’re applying to. Good luck! Chance me? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1252109-transferring-out-nyu-help-me-fellow-ccers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1252109-transferring-out-nyu-help-me-fellow-ccers.html</a></p>