| Well, the response I got from the colleges I emailed to ask was "we don't give out scholarships to transfer students." This went for public AND private schools in a variety of states. Often, the public schools that give transfer scholarships only give them to students who are already in state residents. Alternately, the transfer "scholarship" often just reduces some of the out of state surcharge. " Financial Aid from the government is based off of need. Grants are for anyone who qualify." Key phrase: anyone who qualifies. When I was 18, I qualified for a $4500 stafford loan and nothing else. If I went to a community college, this dropped to about $800-900/quarter, which wasn't enough to even pay tuition. Incidentally, the best need based grant you can get from the government is a pell grant. This maxes out at about $5000/year, and you can only get it if you make less than about $10,000/year (and your parents have no income, or you are an independent student). "They do not take ability to pay into account when determining transfer admissions, that's illegal." This is only true for public universities. Private can do whatever they want. "Elite colleges do accept transfers, find me one that doesn't." Princeton. "You're a young, pissed-off undergraduate student just finding your place in the world." I'm not 18 anymore, and haven't been for over half a decade. |