What colleges would be a good fit for me?

[ucbalumnus]

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@writergirl6462

Financial Aid will be a crucial part of which college I choose. I can afford about $18,000 a year from my mom. I do not want to attend a California public university. Private schools are fine. From many, I am projected to get close to enough financial aid.</p>

<p>Otherwise, UC’s are all $30,000/year, and I can get no financial aid from that whatsoever because they are California public schools.

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<p>Have you tried their net price calculators?</p>

<p>I put in a set of numbers that give an EFC of $18,000 and net price of $26,500 (EFC + $5,500 Stafford loan + $3,000 of student work) at Berkeley. The same numbers produced a net price of $56,922 (list price) at Boston University.</p>

<p>Even a set of numbers that caused Berkeley to give a total net price of around $18,000 produced a net price of $56,922 (list price) at Boston University.</p>

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@writergirl6462

This goes along with the fact that they are so impacted that many people cannot get their classes and do not graduate on time (I’ve known people that this has actually happened to.)

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<p>Berkeley and UCLA have among the highest four year graduation rates of state universities in the US (around 70%). Not getting into classes to graduate on time is mostly a problem at the open admission community colleges.</p>