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Bright Futures cut funding again.
My 100% scholarship now only covers about 87%. I have no book money (Freshman year, I got $600 for books. That's $600 they've jypp'd me). If I'm failing a class and drop it mid-year, I have to pay for it out of my own pocket. I have to take 12 credits a semester to get it (I would anyway).
This pisses me off for other people more than it does me. Because I'm taking only 12 credits, and not the full 18, I'm pretty sure BF will pay for my full tuition, and I get a scholarship to cover books, and I have $2500 in loans coming in anyway, but for other students?
there's this pre-conceived notion that if a student goes to college, s/he has other scholarships. In reality, SO many students rely on this aid to get through college. Florida has a giant minority population, and a TON of kids that come from lower-income families. For them, getting this state scholarship gives them the push to go to school. However, now that the state is cutting funding, and getting the scholarship is SO much harder than it was before, I have a feeling a lot of students are being discouraged from going to college/staying in Florida.
Bright Futures is honestly one of the reasons I decided to just go to USF. My grades and ACT score gave me a lot of opportunities, but bright futures guaranteed I could go to college for free.
Now... not so much.
uploaded a lot of pictures to FB tonight. If you've friended me, go check out how Colette's in almost all of them. If not and you want to see them, why aren't we FB buddies??
I wishwishWISH I could take a vacation with my mom before school starts back up again. I want to get out of the house. However, the money is supposed to be for Pennsylvania. If we DON'T use that money for PA, people will be butthurt. If we DO, -Mom- will be butthurt and won't go.
I... honestly just want to take a short vacation, two or three days, before school starts. The beach would be great for that (and honestly, it's the vacation MOST LIKELY to happen, except for the butt-hurt). Or a last-minute cruise, I dropped to my mom. But I want to go to PA at a later time, when I don't have school/loans/stress looming, and I want to stay for a week. I wish there weren't so many politics attached to this mess. UG.
My 100% scholarship now only covers about 87%. I have no book money (Freshman year, I got $600 for books. That's $600 they've jypp'd me). If I'm failing a class and drop it mid-year, I have to pay for it out of my own pocket. I have to take 12 credits a semester to get it (I would anyway).
This pisses me off for other people more than it does me. Because I'm taking only 12 credits, and not the full 18, I'm pretty sure BF will pay for my full tuition, and I get a scholarship to cover books, and I have $2500 in loans coming in anyway, but for other students?
there's this pre-conceived notion that if a student goes to college, s/he has other scholarships. In reality, SO many students rely on this aid to get through college. Florida has a giant minority population, and a TON of kids that come from lower-income families. For them, getting this state scholarship gives them the push to go to school. However, now that the state is cutting funding, and getting the scholarship is SO much harder than it was before, I have a feeling a lot of students are being discouraged from going to college/staying in Florida.
Bright Futures is honestly one of the reasons I decided to just go to USF. My grades and ACT score gave me a lot of opportunities, but bright futures guaranteed I could go to college for free.
Now... not so much.
uploaded a lot of pictures to FB tonight. If you've friended me, go check out how Colette's in almost all of them. If not and you want to see them, why aren't we FB buddies??
I wishwishWISH I could take a vacation with my mom before school starts back up again. I want to get out of the house. However, the money is supposed to be for Pennsylvania. If we DON'T use that money for PA, people will be butthurt. If we DO, -Mom- will be butthurt and won't go.
I... honestly just want to take a short vacation, two or three days, before school starts. The beach would be great for that (and honestly, it's the vacation MOST LIKELY to happen, except for the butt-hurt). Or a last-minute cruise, I dropped to my mom. But I want to go to PA at a later time, when I don't have school/loans/stress looming, and I want to stay for a week. I wish there weren't so many politics attached to this mess. UG.