If you really are going to a service academy, it does no good to go into debt for college. Those credits won’t count and you’ll need to repay the loans, maybe while you are in school. The service academies are NOT Title IV institutions so attending may not defer any loans you have outstanding (I don’t know).
If you need to ‘beef up’ your academics, do it at a community college. You can get good grades and have a high gpa. You can ‘pay as you go’ and have no debt. Don’t want to live at home? Find another relative to live with or rent an apartment.
The reason we’ve been “unhelpful” is because the answer you’re looking for simply does not exist. No one is going to give you $45,000 in loans in the next 18 hours. It’s not happening.
Please don’t think you are “doomed.” You have some options - you don’t like them right now, but there are ways to do what the DOD counselor said: work on your academics. That doesn’t have to be at American. I know you’d like it to be, but that’s magical thinking. You’re going to have to put your eyes out the prize and work for the future, not the right now. See if you can get back in SEED - did the DOD counselor tell you it was a bad program and to get out? I’d be surprised if he/she did. What they want to see is a kid who can persevere despite frustrating circumstances. They want to see a kid who took what was handed him and succeeded. They don’t care if it’s at American. So stay in SEED, do well, show WP how smart and tough you are and follow your dream.
If you can’t stay with your family, then you need to find a place to stay. That’s your #1 priority.
You cannot go to AU, you cannot get Scholarships, you cannot get 45k in loans.
It’s unfortunate, it’s unfair, it’s terrible. But we can’t help you find scholarships or loans that don’t exist.
You can do SEED (once you’ve found a room in an apartment with students). You can take a gap year. Get better, stay in shape, run ever day, bike to work, join the community college’s or the community’s sports, get good grades at the CC.
Debt will actually hinder you (some employers simply wont take on someone with that much debt)
Wow, kid… you just blew $400. You have your chance at college, and I am very sorry, but it’s not at American. Don’t be foolish. Get back into the SEED program. You know the military/military academies won’t take you $90,000 in debt, right? That kind of debt makes for a security risk. You may not have been given what you want, but you’ve been given what you need… both by the posters on this board and the SEED program. Please don’t blow it. Your determination will take you far, but your stubbornness is going to be your downfall. American will be there for graduate school. Think.
Will this relative do this for you again for year two?
If this is true…and you found a relative to give you $45,000…you would have been better served to use that to fund TWO years of studies at your public university.
You don’t have $200? Surely you knew you needed this deposit money all along since you applied. That is no secret. And absolutely you knew when you received your acceptance letter and aid offer of not enough money. You needed to have a job…doing anything…babysitting, walking dogs, yard clean up, fast food work…anything.