What are options for paying OOS tuition?

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<p>The best things you can do right now:</p>

<p>Get the best grades you can possibly get. You mentioned not being in the top 8% of your class, but if you are currently a HS sophomore, you’ve only finished 1 year (1/4th of HS) - you have a LONG way to go. Study! Get a tutor if necessary. Do extra credit. Whatever you need to do to get the best grades possible.</p>

<p>Prepare for your standardized tests. Take the PSAT this year. STUDY the areas you are week. Spend time preparing. Take it again as a junior. If you can qualify for NMF you will have options. Then study for your SAT and ACT - take both, study the areas where you are weak and then take them again.</p>

<p>Volunteer! Find an area you are passionate about and do a significant amount of work in that area.</p>

<p>State school’s don’t give much aid to OOS students, but private schools don’t have those restrictions. If you want to go to California, there are A LOT of small private schools there that will give significant aid to top performing students.</p>

<p>Research outside scholarships - there are some available for those with top stats, some for those who have done a significant amount of community service, some for those with financial need, and some for those that are members of specific groups or organizations. Find out ALL you qualify for and make sure you start applying your senior year.</p>

<p>If you want to go out of state - work on getting the stats to make it happen, you’ve got time.</p>

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<p>What part of Texas do you live in?</p>

<p>San Antonio…</p>

<p>I may be reading too much between the lines, but are you having an issue with your parents over sexuality?
No I’m straight haha, it’s a very complicated family thing I guess… Don’t really need to share that part though</p>

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<p>To everyone suggesting that it is a sexuality issue, it isn’t. I would like to apologize for my lack of knowledge, hypocrisy, and denial to each and every one of you, and to thank you ALL for helping me realize my options.</p>

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<p>Ok…</p>

<p>San Antonio has a specific culture (I have enjoyed my visits there), but it’s not as if the entire state of Texas has that same culture.</p>

<p>You can go to college in ANOTHER part of Texas (Houston, Dallas, Austin, etc) and experience a different culture.</p>

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<p>Teach: if you are still online, please hear my two cents. I will try to be supportive with the information I know about Santa Barbara. I want to give you a perspective from a native California resident. <a href=“We%20live%206%20hours%20south%20%5Bwith%20good%20traffic%20in%20LA%5D%20of%20UC%20Santa%20Barbara.”>i</a>* </p>

<p>I’ve been there multiple times with the daughters and a colleague’s family. The area is by itself, and away from the main “city” of Santa Barbara. From LA it’s about 2 hours north in good traffic. So you’ll need reliable transportation to get there. (You’ll also need a bike rack to transport your bike there). SB doesn’t have a major airport; the area is small, so you have to take a puddle jumper from LA which is really expensive. **Santa Barbara is beautiful **but with all of that beauty comes some excessive rents. It does have area surfers but the water and the weather can be very chilly there. Your image of So Cal is really the LA area, Orange and SD county beaches. </p>

<p>Additionally, it’s gotten tougher to get admitted because people from our own STATE think it’s the surfer capital and they think it’s the beach area that is seen in movies and tv. So our residents apply there in DROVES; ya know dude? the studying by the beach thing?. The UC system is obligated to its taxpayers children, so we get priority. You might get admitted but only at FULL COST-50K not including room and board. </p>

<p>The CC’s in California are impacted and full. The state is out of money. You won’t get resident tuition status. The CC’s are smart and can “sniff out” non-residents. Anyone who did not graduate from a California high school is immediately suspect.</p>

<p>My middle daughter’s friends, at the CC’s, are taking 3 and 4 years to complete their requirements for the UC’s because they can’t get classes at the CC’s and you can’t repeat courses for better replacement grades because they are now merged=unless you pay full cost to repeat the class. A merged grade can lower your GPA for UC admission.</p>

<p>My eldest applied to SB and had high stats, high SAT’s, played varsity sports, etc. and she DIDNT get in. My neighbor’s child, Melanie, also applied with high academics and was a top tennis prospect in the state DIDNT get in! </p>

<p>My advice, if you want that kind of environment, is to **select private schools in the Orange county or LA area **where you might get some private scholarships. The beach is not that far from UC Irvine and your rents will be high, but not as high as Santa Barbara. BTW Traffic in SO CAL is the norm.</p>

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What schools in those areas have good college experiences?? UCLA and Berkeley are out of the question if UCSB is lol… I think every school in Cali is now unavailable to me…</p>

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Don’t think I could ever get into a private school, even if I could it would be too expensive and they seem really boring…

Irvine is just as expensive to attend as Santa Barbara I think…</p>

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<p>first you need to get your money settled. Ask your grands if they’ll pay. If they will, then fine. If not, then you have that answer and will need to focus on schools that will work.</p>

<p>Are your parents low income?</p>

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I really need to go out if state, I can’t stand Texas… Only affordable things OOS are CCs though… Doubt my grandparents will pay a dime, lol.</p>

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I honestly have no idea… They claim to be broke buy taking a cruise recently seemed to be no problem for them… I’d say the most we make is 100k, but I’ve got 3 siblings so it’s not as much as it seems…</p>

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<p>I’m not even sure that OOS CCs will be affordable. YOU can only borrow $5500 for frosh year. </p>

<p>Look at New Mexico schools… scholarships at UNM and other NM publics.</p>

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<p>UNM…</p>

<p>Amigo</p>

<p>For best consideration: Admitted to UNM by
February 1 for Fall semester, October 1 for Spring semester</p>

<p>Approximate value of $15,570 per year</p>

<p>Plus a $200/year stipend ($100/semester)</p>

<p>Renewable for 4 years</p>

<p>*No Scholarship Application Required</p>

<p>23 ACT (1070 SAT) and 3.5 Unit<em>GPA or 26 ACT (1190 SAT) and 3.0 Unit</em>GPA </p>

<p>UNM Amigo Scholars:</p>

<p>Complete 15 new credit hours with a 3.0 GPA each semester (fall and spring semesters).</p>

<p>This scholarship is renewable for four years (8 consecutive semesters) provided you maintain the requirements.</p>

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what kind of stats would I need to get those scholarships?? I’m only an incoming sophomore so I still have plenty of time to raise my GPA, but its permanently hindered due to a really bad phase I went through freshman year, which caused me to get really low grades. I’m usually an all a student with the exception of the second semester of freshman year.</p>

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<p>Oh thank you:)</p>

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<p>Well, you could move to CA and establish residency if you can find someone to be your guardian for your junior and senior years in high school. Then you would be an in-state student. It’s not as far-fetched as it seems if you really would do anything to go to UCSB.</p>

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is there any way I can actually make that happen?? I can’t just run away from home unfortunately…</p>

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<p>You’re focusing way too much on the party aspect; CALIFORNIA is publicly smoke-free, EXTREMELY HEALTH AND environmentally conscious-especially of our beaches, lakes, and bays; and is **NOT **tolerant of stupid youth being under the INFLUENCE! </p>

<p>FYI,San Diego does not permit alcohol on its beaches and bays! Other California cities have similar and/or more restrictive laws! Especially Santa Barbara! Despite what you may think, don’t come here with preconceived notions that we are a partying state!!! And in California schools, students need a lot of parent help, the colleges do ask for parent help because they are out of money; so don’t alienate yourself from your parents because you WILL need them for A LOT of things!</p>

<p>You need to do well in school first to get access and scholarships to these colleges. **Keep your GPA high and try to retake your tests **to have any chance of getting in, otherwise, “The STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT, DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!”</p>

<p>[@LA</a> Los Angeles Colleges/Universities/University in Southern California including Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County](<a href=“http://www.at-la.com/@la-edu/college.htm#private]@LA”>http://www.at-la.com/@la-edu/college.htm#private)</p>

<p>If you are a good sport’s prospect, with high stats, there are a number of colleges that will recruit you but your grades have to be strong. </p>

<p>Remember that the California universities will admit you, but if you “party” too much, they won’t tolerate it, and you’ll be gone in a quarter since the universities and colleges are out of money, and they have “no problem” sending your drunk butt back to TEXAS, at your expense, if you don’t maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP). They have too many choices of good students to waste space on someone who will not perform well.</p>

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<p>You would need someone in CA to whom your parents would be willing to cede legal guardianship, and you would need to have that guardianship arranged formally with a court order.</p>

<p>Very few parents are ready to declare that their relationship with their children has so completely and utterly failed that they are willing to agree to something like that. Unless your relationship with your parents is indeed so very bad that a local court would likely remove you from their home and formally assign a guardian, it is unlikely that you would be able to arrange to do so in another state.</p>

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<p>I get that you don’t like it in Texas. I sympathize. I wouldn’t like it in Texas, either.</p>

<p>But I am afraid you are confusing the terms need and want. And since it’ll be years before you actually can leave Texas–even if, in the best case, you do manage to make some out-of-state college affordable–you really should focus on trying to find some people or things where you are that make life more tolerable.</p>

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<p>Yeah I do confuse “need” and “want” a lot, my mistake… Currently researching plenty of schools other than UCSB :slight_smile: thanks guys</p>

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<p>Good luck, Teach.</p>

<p>If it means anything, I really respect the way you’ve come around in the last 24 hours.</p>

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PennDad: This student could not establish residency in high school without his parents. Unless the child has lost his parents and has to live with a relative in California. </p>

<p>California is broke and will not support students who come here in high school, without their parents, because of several sports issues and lawsuits that have arisen. </p>

<p>We have very good year-round sports programs and everyone seems to participate. Kids and families think they can come from other states with “guardians” to try to “establish” residency in hs for admission to California colleges. The California high schools have to self-report OOS students to the California Interscholastic Federation and those students have to “sit-out” a year before going out for a sport because the schools run the risk of being disqualified for sports participation. A HUGE deal in California!</p>

<p>There is a current lawsuit in our county= a school had to forfeit their football award because the child lived here with a friend of the father, but Dad lived in Arizona. The “classmates” as well as the parents were furious that they lost an award because someone tried to “scam” the system and they filed their own class action lawsuit against that family. It’s still in the courts!!! 10 years? later! We have enough attorneys to cover everyone in this state!</p>

<p>If the parents are living and working and paying taxes OOS, and their child is with a “guardian” here in California, it looks very suspicious for either: playing sports, or establishing residency for education. Especially, because the schools HAVE to SELF REPORT OOS students for sports. </p>

<p>Plus, the student is required to learn and pass the California history exam at his/her current grade level in order to graduate from a California school. It is usually done in 4th grade, but in 11th grade it is a hard thing to do and is not offered in the regular school day. We don’t offer a California history class. </p>

<p>Telling a kid to go live in California with a guardian for high school is not wise and has punitive repercussions for the family.</p>