<p>Anywhere in the United States</p>
<p>I'm a California resident by the way. Try to pick safety schools, reachers, and perfect fits for me. And let me know which you think they are.</p>
<p>Chemical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering- GPA: 3.56 (3.98 Major)</p>
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<li>Did Research at University of Michigan this summer making new antibiotics.</li>
<li><p>Worked for 2.5 years at a non-profit after school program as a music teacher and math and science tutor.
+Independent (mother deceased, never met father)
+Dean's list consecutive 3 semesters
+Jazz band for a year</p></li>
<li><p>Spring 2012 GPA was a 3.3 (B in Math B in Chem II Lab, and a W in Speech)</p></li>
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<p>Demographic information: African American, Low Income, First Generation College Student, From Single Parent home</p>
<p>Upcoming Classes-</p>
<p>Classes for Fall 2012:
Calculus I
Molecular and Cell Biology
Intro to Physics</p>
<p>Classes for Spring 2013:
Calculus II
Physics Mechanics and Wave Motion
Programming for engineers - Matlab</p>
<p>You are off to a great start. SAT or ACT scores would help us, and how far you are willing to travel will narrow it down. Because of your need for financial aid, you may have to fill out a lot of applications and wait for the best offers. Santa Clara, Caly Polys SLO and Pomona all come to mind.</p>
<p>I will transfer to any school in the nation. I had a 1570 for my SATs that I took 5 years ago.</p>
<p>Learn to use the different college search engines, including SuperMatch on here. Go through the Net Price Calculator for each school you find interesting. It takes some nuber of hours to match up your situation with good schools, but let me give it a SWAG.</p>
<p>You have a need for good financial aid and you will be applying as a transfer student. Your stats are good, but not all schools will recognize all of your college credits. Your best bet is still your in-state bargain schools, CPSLO and CPP. The other ones I researched while looking for my son:
Ohio has Case Western, Dayton, Xavier and Cincinatti. NY has RPI and Clarkson. MA has WPI and Northeastern. Drexel in PA. Maybe University of St. Louis. I know next to nothing about schools in the south. It’s a longshot, but Cornell, Dartmouth and Columbia all accept transfers. Note I left off state schools because of financial aid needs, but there are many. WUE schools that accept transfers like New Mexico and South Dakota are not better options than in-state.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip and the suggestions! I hope your son gets into some good schools!</p>
<p>If I understand correctly, you are currently at a community college, looking for schools to transfer to, right?</p>
<p>You can use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to search for California public universities with your major(s), and to see what courses to take at your community college to transfer to them.</p>
<p>San Jose State accepted fall 2012 transfers to chemical engineering with 2.00 GPAs (according to [SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-949.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-949.html) ), so it may be considered as a safety (although threshold GPAs may change in the future). It was much more selective for bioengineering (3.50 threshold GPA for transfers).</p>
<p>You can use [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) to get an idea of transfer admission GPAs at UCs. But the more recent data is a few years old, and the schools may have become more selective since then.</p>
<p>Be sure to run the net price calculator at each school’s web site to get a financial aid estimate.</p>
<p>You can check the job and career prospects of the majors at the <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a> .</p>
<p>'M more curious about out off states schools, I don’t know much about them.</p>
<p>You should still be sure to line up some in-state (financial) safeties. OOS public schools will not offer a lot of financial aid unless you are a truly stellar student and the privates will also be expensive. Look for schools where you will be among the top applicants. (Financial aid for transfer students tends to be less generous as it is.)</p>