People truly underestimate the
difficulties we as students have with college, college funding and grants and
loans to be exact actually. You have to
fill out all of this paper work and talk to handfuls of people and everything
else you could probably think of that goes along with college tuition.
Imagine this, you are ready to go off to
college, you’ve done all your paperwork and everything else but then BOOM.
Death in the family, death of a parent; the only parent who supported you financially. What do you do now? Well I’ll tell you this first off, don’t go
asking your financial aid office to begin with.
They are of no help. And good
luck filling out your FAFSA, a FAFSA is supposed to be based on your current situation. But what happens when that situation changes unexpectedly?
Hate to say it, but you’re basically screwed…
Going to be honest here, there isn’t
much hope for a happy ending with this.
All they will allow you to do is go off of your older FAFSA and hope
that it’ll still work for you. Except
that truth is that it doesn't work out for you now. Now that your only source of income is gone
you need more help with your future and funding.
The best thing for you to do would be to
get as many grants as you are capable of and see how many loans can be offered
to you until you can get a new FAFSA filled out with your actual situation or
fill out a special circumstance form, which you would need to find a bunch of
other paperwork you may not be able to get.
Basically, college tuition is a waiting game when you lose a
parent. It will try your patience and
everything else but hopefully you can see the light at the end of your tunnel
eventually.
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