<p>Claude now would be a good time to go pick your mom a bouquet of flowers, tell her you know everything has been super stressful lately and you want to make this last year at home better.</p>
<p>I’m not going to tell you to mend your relationship with your mom because I don’t know what your relationship is or if it’s even worth mending.</p>
<p>What I WILL tell you: adjust your standards (look at CCs and state schools) and study your tush off for standardized tests. If you get a good enough score, you can get a full-ride at state schools (this is what I did!) and they’ll even pay for your room/board. Whoever suggested you check out the sticky threads had a great idea. Sorry but it’s just plain unrealistic to think 30K per year is going to work out. And family friend might have money but relying on family friends for financial aid purposes is <em>never</em> a good idea.</p>
<p>if the family friend is generous enough to cosgin for you, why not ask her to pay for your college?
Also loans are quite draconian in costs when you have to repay, the interests, thats how they would make money. I completely avoid loans, because i have no means to pay for it, i only got grants. You should avoid them as well, because you have no way of paying for it back either.</p>
<p>Getting a “good” job in the future is a very unrealistic goal to achieve, when you can barely support yourself. Additionally, your mother doesnt like you very much, she wants you out of the house, because she is unable to support herself, so she sees you as an financial liability to her. Its a good idea to enroll in community college(i dont know why people give cc such a bad rap", their courses are cheaper and they would have equivalent courses lower division or ge courses you would have to take if it was a 30k a year school.
When you first posted about your mom, not paying for the college, its because she cant, she pratically has no income.
I have seen many people in your situation</p>
<p>if this post violates the forum rules i would remove it.</p>
<p>Thank goodness a relative is going to house you for now. The goal now should be to look at CC, the full ride scholarship sticky and focus on being able to get mom to do FASFA. when the time comes. FASFA is the only way you can get eligible state and federal grants(free money) and federal loans with the limits mentioned by happymomof1.
Maybe convincing mom that this will help you get out of her hair and independent will help. Good luck!!</p>
<p>As others have made pretty danged clear, there is no entitlement to go off to college and live in a dorm. That is like gettting a car on your 16th birthday, getting a grand tour of Europe upoon high school graduation, having a summer at the family beach house. These are stereo types that only those who can afford to do so fit. The reality is that most people get through college very slowly and painfully, class by class, paying and borrowing as they can, working full or at least part time, living with parents and getting family help in terms of transporatation, room and board. That is the way most people do college. And they do not finish in 4 years. The average college student is well in his mid 20s. </p>
<p>What’s important for you is not so much going to college, but finding a place to live where you have access to some transportation for a job, and maybe community or state colleges. Your mother can’t pay for your college or support at her income level even if she wants to do so. The money isn’t there. If you can get some financial info from her, and fill out the the FAFSA, you would be entitled to about $5600 PELL is your family EFC is zero. You can borrow $5500 freshman year, and if your mother applies for a loan and is denied, you can borrow an additonal$4K. As you can see, these things all involve your mother’s cooperation. If she won’t help you out, then you need to focus on surviving on your own, once you are out of the house and getting a life without a college degree, until age 24 when you can qualify for federal aid on your own.</p>
<p>You can also apply for scholarships and to schools that give financial aid and see what pans out there, but, frankly, getting enough money to make it a go is going to be difficult. The large awards are often from schools that charge so much that you still end up having to pay more than community college. It’s that bottom line dollar amount that you have to pay that counts, not the award amounts. </p>
<p>So talk to your guidance counselor about some schools that might give you enough money that will make it a go, and look at local living and school optons as well as jobs. But really, your first priority is where you will live, how you will get around and how to pay for expenses if you are out of the house soon. Just bear in mind that college is not an entitlement but a huge luxury.</p>
<p>What state are you in?</p>