First post; probably in the wrong section. My apologies. I have no idea what this would go under. And yeah, it's this post again.
Mini background: I'm a junior in HS right now and have no idea what I'm doing. I don't know what I want to do career-wise. My grades are fairly decent. Freshman and sophomore year cumulated an unweighted GPA of 3.929. This past trimester, I think I finished with a 3.7/3.8 (grades aren't finalized). Weighted GPA is about 4.2. Took the ACT in November without studying and got 23 on composite and 7 on writing. Very bad, but hey, I feel like my score reflected my studying (0).
I've only ever toured one college (weaaaak), and it was UCSD. I don't know what to think of it since I don't have any other schools to compare it to.
I live in Minnesota. My options are very limited since my mother is very unwilling to let me go wherever. I can either go to the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, or the University of Madison - Wisconsin. She won't let me go anywhere else even if I get a full ride which is ridiculous. I hate Minnesota weather and would like to leave, and I love California. Never been to NorCal, but I feel like I wouldn't like it. I like the feel of San Diego, and Encinitas is a super cool small place and the drive isn't too bad between the two cities.
So I got a bit off topic; my bad. Anyways...I'm leaning a bit towards some sort of science research which i know UCSD has a very good science research program, plus the Scripps Institute of Oceanography is right there for marine biology which seems quite interesting. The only problem is, I unfortunately just discovered that all UC's stopped giving out financial aid for OOS...My mother's income is fairly low and I live with her, while my father's is high, but he always lies to me and my brothers about it, so that's no help. I was looking at SDSU and I think they offer financial aid (cuz it's CSU not UC)? Please correct me on that. The only problem is I consider myself a pretty academic person, and I don't want to go to SDSU if it's ranked in the 100s, but I don't want to stay in-state.
Is there any sort of financial aid from UC's or are they seriously not giving any out to OOS students? Is SDSU really bad compared to UCSD? I know UCSD is one of the top research universities, but what about SDSU; do they have decent research programs?
Thanks so much!
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