My parents will not give me a single dollar to pay for my college education but I have a good GPA and a good SAT score. Is there a chance for me? I can just say my parents are nearly broke and Im living in my brother’s house hes a programmer so i guess he makes 60k/year with 4(sometimes 5) people in my family. I want to go to George Washington and I heard it has a huge endowment. Would I be able to get a decent scholarship and most of all a loan (GW costs 50-60k/year). And I wanna go to med school after 4 years of college. Thank you so much for your help! This is my future!
Can’t really speak about the financial aid or scholarships, but one thing is that if you want to go to med school, spending 50k you don’t have a year only to have to take out more loans later might not be the best idea. For med school, you want to minimize your debt, and the undergraduate name doesn’t really matter in med school admissions. It’s more about what you did with what you had.
How old are you? You say you are living in your brothers house. With your parents I assume? What are your Stats?
What is your SAT score/GPA?
Google “Automatic Full Tuition Scholarships” and click on the Yolasite link.
Without your parents cosigning loans you can only take out $5500 as a freshman, and a bit more than than as an upperclassmen. GW is not a great school for merit.
Also look at 100% need meet schools.
Are you asking if you can get a full ride? Yes it is possible but you need to be a top student. What is your home state? GPA/test scores? Family income? What kind of school(s) are you looking at? Be aware most schools will ask for some contributipn from your parents and your self in the way of work study/summer jobs and loans.
This thread really needs to be consolidated with your other thread, whihc explains why you ask this question.
You need a full ride my freind, or a college that meets full need. You need tobe a really great student to either get to the full ride college, or to get into the meets full need college. I have heard that if yiu can emancipate yourself from your parents,they won’t be considered in your FAFSA, but I am not too good with the FA aspect of this. I suggest you post your question on the FA a forum. Try giving your title a slightly more descriptive name. Good luck!
Can I go to a college that costs 50k/year with not even a single dollar?
@Lindagaf - It is not at all easy for a student to emancipate themselves from their parents. Pretty close to impossible. If the OP is in a very messy family situation, it may be possible to have a court assign guardianship to someone other than the parents, but that isn’t easy to arrange either.
@dafatdabook - Ask your parents to run the Net Price Calculators at the websites of GW, your favorite home-state public university, and a couple other places. That will give all of you a better notion of what your family is likely to be expected to pay each year. If everything is likely to be unaffordable, then you do need to look for a huge merit scholarship. Start with these lists. Some of the scholarships will be available next year.
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/
http://competitivefulltuition.yolasite.com/
http://nmfscholarships.yolasite.com/
Where you do your undergraduate program doesn’t matter much at all when it comes time to apply to medical school. Choose a place where you can graduate as close to debt-free as possible. Wait to borrow money for med school.
@happymomof1 my brother is taking care of me now he’s paying pretty much 90% of the bills, hes also my legal guardian. But thank you for your help I’ll try out the links you gave me.
Make certain that your brother is your court-ordered legal guardian, not just a hey-look-after-my-kid guardian. Get the paperwork done properly. This will make you an independent student for the FAFSA. Your parents’ financial information won’t matter at all. If you apply to a college/university that also requires the CSS Profile, that place might also require your brother’s financial information, but most won’t.
@happymomof1 Five out of six Profile schools that my ward applied to wanted my financial info on the Profile, so unless you’ve personally had opposite results or can cite research, I would beg to differ with your statement that “most” Profile schools won’t want the legal guardian’s financial info.
@dafatdabook Don’t get fixated on one college. You will need to follow the money. Even if your brother has to file the Profile you could qualify for FinAid. If you are in a court-ordered legal guardianship, it is true that you will file FAFSA as an independent student. In that case make sure that you apply to some schools that only use FAFSA.
@alooknac - Thanks for correcting me about that! I won’t use those words in the future.