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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 3:02:15 GMT -5
Does anyone know much about getting scholarships when transferring colleges? For example, I'm looking at a few schools in Florida and can't really find out if my college GPA could get me scholarship money at some of the schools. I'm guessing I'll have a 3.4 or so after this upcoming semester.
I know colleges usually have a set amount when your applying, but that's as a freshman and not an incoming transfer student.
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Post by Sheryl Yoast on Jan 11, 2009 8:59:12 GMT -5
Does anyone know much about getting scholarships when transferring colleges? For example, I'm looking at a few schools in Florida and can't really find out if my college GPA could get me scholarship money at some of the schools. I'm guessing I'll have a 3.4 or so after this upcoming semester. I know colleges usually have a set amount when your applying, but that's as a freshman and not an incoming transfer student. I got a transfer scholarship of a little bit when I transfered. Nothing huge though.
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Post by cjmjones008 on Jan 11, 2009 12:34:48 GMT -5
When my girlfriend was looking into transferring, she got a lot more money from the school than she would have out of HS. Her GPA was like a 3.8 or 3.9 though which took her to higher scholarship levels than what her test scores would have gotten her.
If its a smaller school that gives out a lot of scholarship money I think you would get some scholarships with a 3.4.
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 13:11:34 GMT -5
Do you think they would even go back and look at my high school GPA?
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Post by cjmjones008 on Jan 11, 2009 13:31:16 GMT -5
Do you think they would even go back and look at my high school GPA? they were mostly going off her college gpa i believe
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Post by Sheryl Yoast on Jan 11, 2009 13:45:27 GMT -5
Do you think they would even go back and look at my high school GPA? Depends on hours completed. Depends from school to school.
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Post by Phoenix Phil on Jan 11, 2009 14:14:23 GMT -5
Do you think they would even go back and look at my high school GPA? if you're only a freshman, I'm pretty sure they'd want to see your HS transcript
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Post by Funky George! on Jan 11, 2009 14:37:58 GMT -5
Do you think they would even go back and look at my high school GPA? if you're only a freshman, I'm pretty sure they'd want to see your HS transcript yeah, they require it but i think it's pretty irrelevant from what i've heard.
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Post by DB on Jan 11, 2009 22:14:33 GMT -5
if you're only a freshman, I'm pretty sure they'd want to see your HS transcript yeah, they require it but i think it's pretty irrelevant from what i've heard.
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Post by Phoenix Phil on Jan 11, 2009 23:12:51 GMT -5
where are you thinking of transferring to?
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:18:23 GMT -5
Not really sure, I would like to experience living in Florida or Colorado, maybe even California. There's a lot of schools in Florida that are intriguing.
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Post by Rocky on Jan 11, 2009 23:21:58 GMT -5
Transferring isn't that bad.
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:26:50 GMT -5
Oh I'm not worried about the thought of transferring at all really. It's more of I just didn't know if I would be able to get scholarship money for my academics.
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Post by Rocky on Jan 11, 2009 23:28:05 GMT -5
Will you be playing basketball?
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:30:27 GMT -5
Well, there's that possibility. But part of me wants to go to a big school, at least for 2 years. And I'm not a division 1 prospect, haha. I could always play at a DII or DIII down in Florida, but I think college would be even better without always have such a sports commitment. I dunno.
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Post by easy on Jan 11, 2009 23:31:16 GMT -5
florida is awful
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:32:17 GMT -5
explain
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Post by easy on Jan 11, 2009 23:33:38 GMT -5
live there for a year, you'll know what I mean.
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:35:50 GMT -5
just give me some examples
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:36:27 GMT -5
I'd appreciate it
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Post by Rocky on Jan 11, 2009 23:39:00 GMT -5
I actually would be careful about Florida. At least for me and where we grew up, it would just be such a crazy jump that I could never handle it realistically. University of Miami was one of my top 2 or 3 schools senior year but I was crazy/stupid.
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Post by Ebener 12 on Jan 11, 2009 23:42:27 GMT -5
i don't think it would be that big of a jump. the biggest thing to me would be separation from family/friends. I do have a lot of family in Florida though. I'm assuming that's part of your reasoning, what else? If you don't mind me asking.
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Post by Rocky on Jan 11, 2009 23:49:43 GMT -5
It's just a different world. Again, not sure what your town growing up was like but for us, eh. The other night we were talking about how incredible it would be to go to University of Florida and the consensus was pretty much that it's a different culture. If you think you realistically fit into that then I'd say go for it.
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Post by easy on Jan 12, 2009 7:08:47 GMT -5
lol
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Post by donatello2424 on Jan 12, 2009 9:59:57 GMT -5
It's just a different world. Again, not sure what your town growing up was like but for us, eh. The other night we were talking about how incredible it would be to go to University of Florida and the consensus was pretty much that it's a different culture. If you think you realistically fit into that then I'd say go for it. They wear jean shorts. I transferred back to my home state where I gave up one scholarship for an instate thing that Georgia does (HOPE, if you keep a 3.0 in college they pay for in state tuition and some for books).
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