I’m a black female & high school senior applying to college. My family and I immigrated to to United states from Africa 10 years ago. We are a family of 6. We’ve been on free/reduced lunch and textbook assistance for all my years in school up until sophomore year when we were no longer eligible. My parents are both educated immigrants. Both my parents got their masters when we came here and my dad went on to get his phd. He’s an assistant professor at a local university and my mom doesn’t really use her degrees and she’s a nurse assistant (got a certificate for this). My mom makes about 20k a year and I’m not sure how much my dad makes. I think he makes about 40-50k. Basically, we’ve been “poor” up until now, when our financial situation has improved but is stil pretty tight. As immigrants, we came here and had literally nothing. My parents worked minimum wage jobs until we moved to a new state for my dad to get his phd.My parents knew that the only way to improve our situation was by furthering the education so that’s what they did. Do we make too much to be eligible for questbridge?
The program appears to be more geared towards lower incomes than yours and the majority of the participants come from families where parents haven’t received a college education. You can always apply and find out, though.
Here’s the eligibility criteria:
https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/who-should-apply
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The $40k-$50k for an assistant professor sounds low - maybe you could ask your parents what is the adjusted gross income line on their Form 1040.
Yes, I think im going to ask my parents. I just thought they’d find it rude for me to ask how much our yearly income is. But I guess it’s necessary since we have to talk about college costs.
Most definitely necessary if you want need based aid.