If you need money for college, you should consider applying for federal financial aid and scholarships. Visit the FAFSA website and follow the application process to get access to federal funding or grants. If you are denied federal funding, apply for different scholarships related to the subject you want to study.…
I am an international student, so a main finance for my education is from my parents (they have their business in hometown). My parents paid for my whole tuition is around $ 5,550.00 per semester. When I received the scholarship from GPC (before merging to GSU) $ 3,027. 00 per semester because I have good grades (GPA over 3.5), my parents only paid around $ 2,500 per semester and plus $300 per month for reting a room. However, after merging into GSU, I do not have the scholarship any more. My parents have to pay again whole tuition $ 5,550.00 per semester and plus $ 300 rent fee per month. It is a big amount to my parents. Now, my parents' business is not good as before because the economic in Viet Nam is slow down. Furthermore, due to I am an international student, I am only allowed to worked on campus with maximum 20 hours per week. I could not work outside because it is illegal and I need to focus on studying full time at school. With the salary from part time job at school, it is fixed for my daily expenses and textbooks. That is a main reason I am writing this letter to apply this scholarship. I am sure with this scholarship can help me and my parents so much.…
I am really thankful for the generous award letter, but I still can not afford to attend University. On the award letter sent to me on June 22, 2007, it suggested that my parents should take a $9500 Federal Plus Loan. My parents have $480,000 mortgages that they are struggling to pay—they pay $2,710.53 for the first mortgage and $1,188.08 for the second mortgage (monthly). Yet, they make only $4200 from their jobs. They also need pay for utilities and foods—they are scrambling every dollar to pay these bills. Therefore, I can not see myself asking my parents to take another loan on my behalf. My family simply can not financially support my college education.…
It will take many scholarships and grants as possible to fund for a student college education.” The money you receive will go directly towards the cost of college, and you do not have to pay it back,which reduces the amount you take out in student loans and pay out of pocket” (Source1). It goes directly into your cost of college and you don’t have to pay anyone back at all. Also,there are plenty websites you can visit and apply for these local scholarships. Scholarships can be referred to as free because it can be earned before and throughout college semesters. Scholarships are near and far and all you have to do is apply and your college fund will become granted.…
I am a hard working student and spend a lot of my day studying and preparing myself for my future. I have many dreams that I am going to accomplish in my lifetime. Having a single mother who does truly tries her best, makes paying for college difficult and stressful for me. I do my best to maintain a 4.0 GPA so colleges…
Education plays a huge role in everyone’s life, and college is not cheap. Not everybody is eligible to receive aid from the government, such as Pell Grant, HOPE Grant, or Zell Miller. Some people have the financial ability to pay for college and…
Dedicated students work hard to have good GPAs. They stay awake late doing homework and projects. These students always participate in class, and turn work in on time. As well as dedicating a lot of their time to school, making A honor roll or A&B honor roll through all the four years in high school and receiving awards based on their dedication. Even after doing all of this, when they become high school seniors, they have a giant problem ahead of them: How do I pay for college? Students whose families live in bad conditions do not have the extra money for college. They only have enough money to pay for the necessities such as rent, bills and clothes. This leaves these students who have the dedication, motivation, and work hard without any…
A hundred to a thousand dollars can go far go for college (The New York Times). Schools give high school students scholarships ranging between one thousand and two thousand dollars (The New York Times). A normal average high school has a financial support class that can help. Other programs provide financial that helps students who have worked hard through high school and who study abroad (The New York Times). Young adults need inspiration and help. Teenagers would work harder if they knew if could pay off. These are reasons college should be free to attend for hard-working teens (The New York Times).…
From personal experiences, many people can concur that colleges is expensive and even after earning a degree can leave a person in debt for a long period of time. Although, financial aid such as grants, loans and scholarships are given to those; many of which, doesn’t apply to everyone. Most of the time, people with unfortunate backgrounds such as low income students have their community college pay off, but a handful of people don’t…
Education is an important aspect of my life. The problem, however, is that it is free until college, which is unfortunate. I have always wanted to further my education to secure a decent career, yet I am now worried about university costs. I consider any scholarship awarded to be beneficial and will lead me toward a useful degree since my family has some financial difficulties.…
As a senior in high school you most likely know if you want to go to college. What you don’t know is how much debt you are going to be in years after you graduate from college. Low income students receive some type of aid, but it is not enough. Colleges tell you that they will pay for your education if you…
Honestly, I know little to nothing about the cost of college, but I have seen the toll of it from my parents. With my sister already in her junior year in a state university, they’ve told me time and time again to save water and electricity to reduce the costs of the bills. When I asked about it they listed to me all the different types of expenses they’ve had to pay for my sister: housing, tuition, food, and clothing. As a high school senior about to graduate and about to go to college, my parents had to pool their savings and what other money they have so that they can brace themselves to support me as well when I continue my education. Although it will be me in campus doing all the work, the cost itself to get me there is a heavy burden…
Scholarships can help out a student attend college without having to deal with any kind of debt. Applying for scholarships can easily be done online in which it doesn’t take much time to complete. A person wanting to get an education can benefit and doesn’t lose anything in applying. Students can apply for any amounts of scholarships. “ It’s worth it to apply for every opportunity, even the ones that are small and may not be a lot to you. If you get $500 scholarship, that’s $500 you didn’t have before,” (Gormus 12). Scholarships are beneficial to students no matter how low the quantity is. This might be a common solution to others, but it has the following weakness. Most students don’t know the process of applying and end up not doing it at all. “... You should never have to pay a fee for scholarship searches. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is,” (Top 10).There are many scams out there that do nothing but harm those wanting to get some back up for…
As a future student of IUPUI I am wanting to learn independence and teamwork. I want to be able to have hands on experience that I was unable to obtain during high school. Going to an actual college will allow me to be able to be with others, who take their work seriously and want to be at the college. Challenges I have had over my high school year has made it difficult to be attentive and made it where I had to go from school to school. Raised in a bad situation, caused me to have to move to two different high schools. This consequently caused me to fall behind miss school and lose my way of transportation to and from school. The school however helped me out with a ride and this made it possible to get back in fourth. While all this happened, fortunately I was able to join a Medical Assisting program at Central Nine, which has taught me the basics of nursing and learning about the human anatomy.…
When my brother graduated from high school, it was difficult for my parent to pay for his tuition, seeing as how he just recently come to the States. The Free Community College program was able to help him go to college for two years and soon he will be planning to finish his last two years at another school. These give me the opportunity to be able to attend a university of my choice. My parent not having to worry about funding my brother college tuition gives them the time to be able to work and plan my college fund and the last two year of my brother education. The expense of higher education keeps increasing as time goes by, which encourage many students to abandon the thought of college. These discouragements…