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So... i may not be transferring. Emmanuel (a 34k private institution) decided i was only worth 10500 in financial aid. 10k scholarship, and 500 (yes, that's right five HUNDRED) dollar grant. With the help my parents offered, it would still leave me almost 12k-15k per year to make up on my own. 10k of that in private (high APR) loans... At the moment i'm only paying about 3k in loans per year, and they're subsidized
five hundred dollars? Cause you know, that puts a HUGE dent in my fiscally challenged life. I'm not saying i'm ungrateful... but i've gotten more from non-profit agencies. It's almost insulting for them to give me that little, at least break 1k! I called them to see if it was a mistake, if maybe they were missing a zero, but the lady said it was correct. 500. that's piss in a bucket for them.
Unless the Department of Homeland Security scholarship comes through, i can't transfer. There's no way i'm adding almost 20k of unnecessary loans for the same degree. If i graduate from UTampa i'll only have something like 16k to pay back for 4 years of school. If i graduate from Emmanuel with the financial aid the way it is, i'll have 32k for the same 4 years and the same degree. i don't want to start off my "real life" crippled by loans like that. I dunno... Grad schools don't look at mental health status, they look at grades... and even though i'm unhappy here, my grades are just fine. I may even get another 4.0 this semester too.
I've been told i'm having the "wrong" college experience. Maybe it's not UTampa i'm unhappy with, but college in general. They build it up so much, how much fun you'll have, the friends you'll make, how challenging your professors and peers will be... but it's nothing like that. My peers don't challenge me in the least, i don't have time to have fun, i don't have a lot of close friends (my supposed best friend here isn't speaking to me, he's being a whiny girl about nothing), and i'm just generally disapointed with the entire experience. Why is college such a big deal? Rosa said only people who don't go to college like high school better... but i'm IN college, and i miss high school like crazy.
I'm not sure what to do.
five hundred dollars? Cause you know, that puts a HUGE dent in my fiscally challenged life. I'm not saying i'm ungrateful... but i've gotten more from non-profit agencies. It's almost insulting for them to give me that little, at least break 1k! I called them to see if it was a mistake, if maybe they were missing a zero, but the lady said it was correct. 500. that's piss in a bucket for them.
Unless the Department of Homeland Security scholarship comes through, i can't transfer. There's no way i'm adding almost 20k of unnecessary loans for the same degree. If i graduate from UTampa i'll only have something like 16k to pay back for 4 years of school. If i graduate from Emmanuel with the financial aid the way it is, i'll have 32k for the same 4 years and the same degree. i don't want to start off my "real life" crippled by loans like that. I dunno... Grad schools don't look at mental health status, they look at grades... and even though i'm unhappy here, my grades are just fine. I may even get another 4.0 this semester too.
I've been told i'm having the "wrong" college experience. Maybe it's not UTampa i'm unhappy with, but college in general. They build it up so much, how much fun you'll have, the friends you'll make, how challenging your professors and peers will be... but it's nothing like that. My peers don't challenge me in the least, i don't have time to have fun, i don't have a lot of close friends (my supposed best friend here isn't speaking to me, he's being a whiny girl about nothing), and i'm just generally disapointed with the entire experience. Why is college such a big deal? Rosa said only people who don't go to college like high school better... but i'm IN college, and i miss high school like crazy.
I'm not sure what to do.