<p>I've had quite a lot of aid offered by NYU and Ithaca (waiting on the package from Boston University) but it's not enough.
My mom doesn't have any money at all and she took out a loan for my sister so she's completely tapped out. My dad's a jerk and won't help me at all because he wants me to study in Egypt (because he apparently wants me to get a sucky education).
Anyway, over my dead body am I doing that.
I don't have anyone who can co-sign a loan.</p>
<p>Are there ANY loans you can get without a co-signer? I need about 22 grand. Otherwise, no university for me...</p>
<p>Getting 22k in loans for college is a very bad idea. What are you going to do when you graduate and you’re 90k in debt? Are you realistically going to be able to make the minimum payments on that, much less pay it off in less than 20 years? I highly doubt it.</p>
<p>And anyway, there is no way that you can get 22k in loans as a college student without a cosigner. You have no credit history and no collateral; you’re simply not going to get any loans but the federally subsidized ones.</p>
<p>Do you have any other options, like a SUNY acceptance? I agree that these schools are clearly unaffordable unless your dad relents! Egypt?! Perhaps you can make the case that, if you intend to live and work in the US after college, many employers would not be familiar with schools/coursework taken there but you would consider a study abroad semester or summer in Egypt.</p>
<p>What’s a SUNY acceptance? anyway, it’s all a bit late for that. I completely forgot I’d started this thread. I should explain: I live in Egypt and have my whole life but I despise it here and I’m also half American so I can study there.
I’m really angry at all universities right now for being so expensive and at the government for cutting so much funding from state universities. At this point I probably can’t even afford a state uni (I have residence in Florida).</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>I think Sk8rmom thought you lived in NY…a SUNY is a state school in NY and they are quite reasonably priced for instate students.</p>
<p>Where are you going to school now?</p>
<p>Can you live with your mom and commute to a Florida state school?</p>
<p>and at the government for cutting so much funding from state universities</p>
<p>“The government” didn’t cut funding. Each state has its own gov’t that helps fund its own state schools.</p>
<p>sweatybluejeans,</p>
<p>If you can get in touch with them, contact the EducationUSA office in Cairo and/or Alexandria [EducationUSA</a> - Find an Advising Center](<a href=“http://www.educationusa.info/Egypt]EducationUSA”>http://www.educationusa.info/Egypt) The counselors there can help you work your way through this process. If none of them have helped a US citizen lately, they have colleagues in other offices who have.</p>
<p>If you have a place to live in Florida, you can go there, get a part-time job, and commute to the closest community college for your first two years. Then you can transfer into a 4-year college or university. Lots of students follow that route (including my own Happykid).</p>