Universities are expensive. Community Colleges are expensive. If you do not find a way to support your education, you will not receive an education. You sign-up for your fafsa after doing your taxes for the first time. If you’re family is wealthy/well-off, no assistance for you. If you are struggling nonstop and barely make ends-meat, heres some thousands to get you by. If you are lucky enough to get scholarships pre-college ( like you’re supposed to be doing throughout high school), then take a breather.
I was lucky enough to file as independent in my taxes and recieved enough financial aide my second & third year to cover everything i needed, plus more. My first year of college, I did not know the tricks of taxes and federal aide, and had to deal with more financial issues than needed, but i took care of it. My current year, i messed up and didnt send in my fafsa on time (no free money for me), so hello student loans.
Higher education is expensive. The only thing we paid for in high school was our fancy backpacks/purses, cool notebooks, pens, paper, binders, extra unnecessary goodness. No welcome to spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks that your school offers at their bookstore. Half of the time teachers don’t require the textbook the schools demand…but they have to say they require it just so they look like they are doing something and that the school makes money. Hundreds of dollars.. federal aide money dollars or your savings account or your parents money… going to buy a textbook you really do not care for.
Be aware of other options. RENT your books, BORROW from classmates, LOOK ONLINE, get OLDER VERSIONS, or save some money and hope you can do well enough in the class to not need the books. p.s. do not buy the textbooks from your schools bookstore unless it is actually the cheapest out there… use your resources people.
MY COLLEGE LIFE 