This student can’t afford an excessive work schedule.
To the OP. One very important thing to remember…you won’t get your new financial aid for your second year…until well into the summer months. you have been working on these finances since at least March. Next year, you won’t know the cost of attendance or your aid until June or July. Returning students get informed last.
So…start planning NOW for how you will find your second year.
Classes started this past week.
Really wish she would’ve gone the community college route. So hard to read.
I think that being admitted to asu Barrett is such an academic and social promotion that op can’t drop it. She’s right, in a sense - a huge victory for her, something not to forfeit without fighting for it. She can do this year, not enroll next year and work full time, then re-enroll Fall 2018 for her sophomore year, etc. It’s not a race.
I agree that she sees the acceptance as a win and I think she has a right to be proud that she got accepted to such a great program. My concern for OP is her apparent reluctance to do anything but rely on the loans because that’s what the family knows. I don’t believe she’ll take breaks to raise money to continue. She’ll be off step with her friends, and once you stop it can be very difficult to go back. I did it so I know it’s possible, but I think it’s better for OP to take advantage of the opportunity to live with her uncle or grandma as soon as the honors college allows it. I wish her well and hope everything works out for her.
I’m not unsympathetic to the OP. Our D was hell bent on going to a selective school, and surprisingly all of us, she got accepted. Re-running the NPCs with updated financial info and then accounting for the oldest kid being out of college, the four year picture was unsustainable. The only way to make it happen was to take on crazy amounts of debt. We had to say no. She didn’t understand. It was painful for all of us. The bright side was we pulled that band-aid off in January, and there was time to heal and move on before committing May 1.
It’s so hard for kids to understand how having to work, having to really scramble during the school year and every break, affects your QOL and the opportunities you may have to pass on.