Ok… submitted the FAFSA.
@mommdc You need 30 credit hours of coursework and no lower than a B to get into Kelley. He has 12 credits from AP classes that will count. (5 that won’t count).
He is going to take a class at IUPUI in the summer, go one semester at IU with B’s or better, and apply to Kelley in the Spring of 2018 for the following fall.
IUPUI is offering him $6k, so after his loans (only $3k per year), it is basically free for me if he lives at home.
I told him if he doesn’t get into Kelley, he is coming home and commuting to IUPUI
That may seem harsh, but from my perspective, it isn’t worth it to pay the extra money unless he is striving for excellence.
It may sound crazy coming from a guy with no degree, but I have no degree because he was born when I was 19. There was no way we could stay together as a family AND his mother and/or I get a degree. Circumstances wouldn’t allow.
It was my own/our doing, but that was the choice we made.
He has a choice and if he doesn’t rise to the occasion and ends up at IUPUI, that will be his choice. We all make our choices.
I just don’t see the sense in paying all that money to graduate and not be in any better position than you would have been in without spending it in the first place.
This thread started because I was mislead by my wife’s text into thinking he had been accepted to Notre Dame. I encouraged him to apply but he wouldn’t. I have always pushed him to shoot high and if he was accepted to a school like Notre Dame I would have considered private loans or whatever it took because contrary to what another poster said, I believe if he did attend Notre Dame he would be able to write his ticket. But I had to push him into applying to schools other than IU.
That text I received from my wife this morning was totally wrong. However, it motivated me to post this thread. In turn, you all motivated me to take some necessary steps I had been putting off. Thank you!!