Higher Learning

[Angel]

Well, I've decided to become a broke, employed part-time student again since I screwed up the first time around.


I know this will take some time to get everything I need done, so I won't even attempt to apply for this fall.

My goal is for Fall semester 2003.


Anyway, I haven't been in school since 1996. Applying for financial aid, grants, scholarships was much easier back then, since I was 17 and everyone basically did it all for me. This time around I am on my own...

So, does anyone have any resources I can look at for this type of thing that I can get as an adult?

I'm looking at the cost for the schools I want to get into. I feel faint.

 

[Basia]

Fasfa

that site will be your friend. It is the entire finitial aid form on a website.

 

[KillerMuffin]

You're a nontraditional female-ergo minority-student.

Check the department of education's website and you college financial aid people.

 

[Angel]

Literotica is better than Google.

Thanks

 

[Dillinger]

Good luck Angel. I learned a lot from being high.

 

[Mischka]

For a good overview, go to the bookstore and peruse the section on college books. They keep up to date on all the sources for scholarship money.

If you already have a college or two in mind, contact their financial aid offices and find out if they have school-specific scholarships/grants, etc. Also apply ASAP for federal financial aid (also available from any school financial aid office).

 

[Basia]

Sorry, Angel.

My link messed up... Here's the real McCoy.


http://www.fasfa.ed.gov/

 

[Basia]

Also, this will be a handy site. Almost every college in the US is on this system for the bookstore.


http://www.efollet.com

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Angel,


The first time you apply for FAid , you will have to fill out the application yourself ... mostly every one does it online.

But, once you qualify the university you attend should have a FAid office and then from there they take care of it ... as long as you go and reapply for each semester you are attending.

That is what I do ... they take care of every thing and all I have to go do is sign .


Go luck and hope all goes well for you , I am thinking you are going to enjoy going back to school.

 

[Angel]

I think I will enjoy it too - I want to go with a major in Biology and then Cornell for Veterinary school... but thats expensive as hell and I don't know how I'll swing cornell since I won't be able to live on campus.

We'll see.

 

[Starfish]

I, for one, am so very happy you've made this decision. You're life is going to bloom when you get in school.

 

[sexy-girl]

dont have much help but i just thought i'd wish you luck angel

 

[Orwell84]

Don't know how it works where you are, but here, depending on what you want to study, and where you want to go, it might be more economical to take some of the basic or gen ed that might be required at a community college, and then transfer over to a college or university. As for fin aid, there are all sorts of state, federal, and/or school based programs. Look at the options carefully because sometimes you can find grants or scholarships (which do not have to be repaid) versus loans (which have to be repaid). Also, don't know who you work for, but some bigger companies have programs that help with educational costs. Good luck in your pursuits...

 

[lovetoread]

One more thing,the Pell Grant has changed a few rules.

I got an extra $1000 added to mine,so that lowered my loan payments.

Try that also.

 

[lobito]

it might be easier to find a sugar daddy, then you don't have to worry about paying back loans in 20 years. You just have to find the right one, and if he happens to be like, 90 years old, you may even be included in his will, and become a gazillionaire after he kicks it.

Just a thought.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

I think I will enjoy it too - I want to go with a major in Biology and then Cornell for Veterinary school... but thats expensive as hell and I don't know how I'll swing cornell since I won't be able to live on campus.

We'll see.

Biology is fun !


That is my major...

 

[bluntforcemama]

AngelinaBoBeena, I'm SO proud of you! Come to school in MT. I'll take care of you.

 

[Xander]

GO Angel!!

Way to go!

 

[lickerish]

Right on Angel o' mine.. that's awesome news!



I was just thinking of doing the same, but I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up

 

[Cheyenne]

Very cool news!

And, Lickerish? You don't need to know your major when you start- just start with basic classes and see what you like. The key thing is to start!

 

[Never]

Angel, come to school with me in Texas.

You can beat up on all the kids that pick on me.